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Sitting On The Fence
By
Yo
might
Nathaniel Gubbins
have does leak out it may cause ezubaryaszent im
thought the weather temporary
Department,
in Britain was bad Washington's Foreign Affairs onough without anybody trying to make it worse.
You might have thought that, if anybody tried to make it worse, it would be our enemies, not our friends,
But it seems that the Ameri- can
Government has "tre mendous projects
rain
for making
this summer by dropping
dry ice on clouds."
there beez
Do
Why have messages in code or otherwise from Britain this week, Smith? They've all been 'droumed,
The whole gol durned lot of them?
sir.
Every man, woman and chlid, sir.
Our dry ice experiments, I
As most of the wet weather suppose?
comes 10 Britain ACTORY the
Atlontle the American Govern-
Yes, air
Well, there's one consolation,
ment "will keep a close walch Smith, We shan't get any notes on Britain this year," and ask
the afr Ministry to let them know if there is a deluge over here, or it most of us have beca drowned.
It we are all drowned they will hear nothing about it for time. But when the news
Concluding The Admiralty Story of Commonwealth Naval Operations in Korea
* CARRIER PLANES FLY THOUSANDS
*I am a fair swimmer," Lind say remarked later, "but the unexpected drop knocked the wind out of me, I was very glad when the Doe fothed me. felt very lonely as the only swimmer in the Yellow Sea!"
The
main
Parallel. Tho
adalgament
eremy wore
Ing B
OF SORTIES
**
1
using his glase.
And
replied,
of protest.
Hardly, sir.
.
In this case you might say a lot of Murchell aid has really коле down the drain. E Smith? Ha, ha, Sinith,
Yes, Sir. Ha, ha, sir. Though I suppose we shouldn't joke about a serious matter.
No sir.
You might cancel TESCTVA- tions for the Festival of Britain.
Yes, sir,
And Smith As I may ba rather busy working out the reorientation of European dạn fence, I'll have my lunch ta the office.
Yes, sir.
Starting with the usual içed tomato fulce No! dry ice, Smith. El Smith? Ha, ha, Smith.
ON
No, sir. Ha, ha, xir,
Fool
NCE upon a time, when England was merry, April the First was the day when the well-known English sense
of humour came to the surface like a drowning man, gave hideous grimace, and disap- peared till Christmas,
It was the day when mother
1
NE of the best stories say until the destroyer's bont began a protective patrol above (who had just been promoted) et top speed towards the rock
April Sub-Lieutenant the wrecked alreraft and the carried out alr patrols over the on which McCallum was hiding. told during the In- arrived, when
Came, R.N., of Falmouth, also Ale Group Commander sent flodila, chon operation was jumped in to help get Lindsay signal back to the carrier.
A shot landed in the water When a Triumph air- inboard.
Within minutes the carrier Captain Brock had intended near the motor-boat, and degid- craft was spotting for one
was in touch with an American to wait until daylight rother, ing that further investigation of Jamaica's bombardments.
Rescue Squadron, and a hellcop- than face a night navigation of would be foolish, it turned to
the unlit estuary with its wards the shore and made oft, The spotter was asked if he
ter piloted by First Lieutenant David C. McDanici. and carry helds, but a signal that the with rock
treacherous shoals and mine. Cockade flashed towards the could see the target. He
doctor,
and McCallum clor, Captain John C. replied: "No, obscured by
Shumate, was on its way in the drawal programme of Chinnam smoke." A relief spotting
When
pu was ahead of schedule decided upot.
the helicopter
so andther act of co- landed aircraft (Lieutenant A. S.
the doctor was a trim to take the risk of a night
voyage up the river.
operation between British Com-served an empty egg shell for of tempting to free the Sea Fury Mearns) interrupted with
monwealth ships and the Ameri- father's breakfast and all the Theseus-at-this stage was the pilot, North Korean troops
Slowly the six ships began the can Navy was completed.
children yelled "April Fool!" na the remark: "Target plain- harassing of the enemy during opened fire from a nearby farm- passage of the tortuous swept
he cracked it; when father ly visible, passing me at their retreat north of the 38th copier silenced the snipers with in many places only 500 yards war it was realised
house. The pilot of the hell- channel through the minefield,
From the start of the Korean retaliated by giving mother
Q of endless that the parcel
wrappings angles six (6,000 feet)."
adept
at camouflage, and it was a quick burst from an automatic wide. Visibility was almost nil, British and Commmonwealth ships round a little box with "April HMS
and during one sweep that aircraft rifle. In spotted Theseus arrived
it was three o'clock in the would need a base to provide Fool" written inside. heavily camouflaged
It crews, and
any humorist feels With the aid of the pilet, the morning before lookouts could amenities for the Korean waters on October 8
and poste
junkas. Photographs
making fool of somebody replaced HMS Triumph. During that
revealed doctor broke open the cockpit make out dock buildings dimly storerooms for provisions, am- they were in fact of the Sea Fury and carried, in the darkness. Captain Brock commodities required by ships April 10 will be
munition and all the Various allow me to remind him that one of her first combat patrols minelayers. An attack soon pre- Lieutenant Leonard to the hell- took up position and his chips lean was landed early on, when
Budget Day, A Sea Fury aircraft unshipped vented any further activities on copter. They landed on a were at action station's waiting and as time went by a depot ship Exchequer will make a fool of of the a rocket when landing on a dock. their part.
beach near Inchon, from which for dawn and possible enemy air and the 80-pound missile hurtled
a launch transferred the Brith usack.
everybody. along
the deck at 30 mph. An
pilot to the US hospital ship
On the day after, April 11, officer Jumped inboard out of
To, avokl Corisolation.
delay, a ship be-fe may not be worth living, Its way as it swerved to the port
konging 10 Butterfield and except for aplvs and smart. side of the deck.
This
thrilling rescue under
Swires but Ernest PILOTS became used to the
British Far Eastern Alecks. Wage carners who like Leonard Lindsay of Newcastle-
area, and Lieutenant-Com- enemy fire gained the admiration
а cigarette may not be able to. on-Tyne, a naval airman, jumped mander F.
Stovin Bradford, Androwes
of everyone, and Rear-Admiral THAT day the transports were firth was chartered and altera-
tions were undertalten in Hong- afford one; those who like an the other way and fell 40 feet DS.C., R.N., made several trips
loaded with wounded, Re- kong dockyard. As a femporary evening drinks may be forced' sent the following
public of Korea.civilian refugees, Headquarters signal 10 the to a rail tunnel. He became
Commanding
ship, the Com into total abstinence, which "Sincerest
thanks and nearly 2,000 personnel. Al- mander-in-Chief, Squadron: enthusiastic
about his target, for the prompt and courageoins
Far k together about 7,000 personnel Station, isent his As
East will make them healthier and the destroyer Constance, which was carrying the type of bomb he
(Commander R. do wanted f
anost meatless country, out plane guard duties, passed, the job. A dry wit among
All in Theseus Interruption from the enemy. morning.
L. Brooke, D.S.O., DS.C.) to Surgeon-Lieutenant Walsh saw deck staff told him: "Freddy, # "xpress their appreciation and When the last transport had northern waters. The chartered that Lindsay was in difficulties you can tell us the gauge of the admiration of this fine exploit." left the port Captain Brocks de-vessel was converted for her and immediately Jumped in to rallway, we'll put the bomb on hazardous naval
Perhaps one of the most cided to remain at anchor for new dulles, and christened HMS help him.
He supported Lind- wheels, and you can push it up
operations of another night in the dock area, Ladybird. She was well equipped the Korean war was carried out and next morning, after order and had a communications set- the ruddy tunnel."
into the Yellow Sen.
Along the Road of Progress
་་
Van Holmont, a 17th century Belgian chemist dia
covered vital principles associated with the Gases that put the sparkle in your. Watson's beverages to-day, Helmont's discovery was of momentous Importance," for authorities say that sparkling drinks such as Watson's have a valuable place in diet, appealing to fastidious appetities as well as
quenching thirst which wra
pbatinato and exactingt
WATSON'S
Cerated
WAYERS
both
:
Used To Area
Withdrawal
was chartered,
the Chancellor
HMS and one day he was ddecribing rescue of downed Sea Fury pilot ware withdrawn and without HMS Alertespatch vessel, | hungrier April fools in an al-
for the
The Theseus soon proved her worth, and by her achievements during the next two months carved the Boyd Trophy, a silver modal of a Swordfish aircraft,
by Admiral
iral Boyd, who
given by
plansted the air attack ол Taranto on November 11, 1941, which crippled the Italian battle feat. This trophy is awarded annually for the finest feat of naval aviation by an individual for unit in the Royal Navy.
The award was made to the 17th Carrier Air Group (Lieutenant-
{DS_under M.P. Gordon Smith.
London),
Theseus'
that the
of
R.N
Victoria, from the rating
is the first timo
has been awarded to a Carrier Group. trophy During December and January the air group operated in close support of the British and Uni'ed Slotca
troops on the west flank,
A liaison officer was landed and. stationed ashore with the 5th US Air Force. Als many a 50 to 60 sonics
day
were made a
this
HMS THESEUS, the aircraft carrier which arrived in Korenn' waters in October and replaced HMS Triumph. A Carrier Group operating from Theseus won the Boyd Trophy for the finest feat of naval aviation,
*
It was for this reason that earner Gubbins became interested In
advertion-- . ment:---
"If you paint flowers carn, pounds #t home designing. machine printed textiles. Postal tuition and sales service."
Gubbins cannot paint flowers,. but be can learn. If he could scrounge some extra money to make life tolerable after April 10, without the knowledge of ˇˋ Bloodsucker, the income inspector, he would learn to knit jumpers, dara socks, and make ten coxies.
tax how
As much as he dislikes them,. be would even mind people's... · doggles while they went to the cinema,
though he would ask for the money in advance so he could tako the doggies out for an evening drink.
But as Gubbins has never., been able to fool. Mr Blood-, sucker yet, he belloves to would be found out.
in support of the Tour: forces. During a period of three weeks in December 650 bortles were flown, and in a period of eight days in January 301 sorties were flown, and it was during the latter month that the 2,000th by Ave British Commonwealth ing sortie during Korean operations destroyers, three Carindian and population out of the military was lown..
two Australian, when in dackness sen, hia ships sholled di and through the swept channel storage tanks, dock and harbour A canteen was started
shore, a large building being 30 miles of the shallow water The
commercial and civilian
taken over. In fact it was on July URING the above operations of the Daldo Eo atuary to cover parts of the town were left un- 20 that a fully-equipped British
the total "bag" of destroyed the withdrawal of civilians, touched.
Galtakell's. Gestapo would be peeping through the curtains of the parleure when he was paint- ing his flowers or knitting his
would catch him red- the remaining civilian up equivalent to that carried by handed with somebody else's
& cruiser flagship.
doggle and he would end up in prison for making. falso ines oncome tax returns,
-(London, Expreza | Service)\
İD"
Shot Down of a minellek, they navigated installations and supply dumpe
· targets «Include: 100 buildings non-essential military personnel occupied by onerry troops, 32 and wounded from the Pirong rallway, bridges, eight tunnna, sang aroa. 30 bot cars, 21 trucks arud lorries,
10
[and" olbär "thing" geh
12,000
The
...
canteon was opened, run by Another notable incident was NAAFL, tho Navy, Army and Air
Want to Cullum, 'dstobed" bour Forest Elmer
bear
HMCS enemy soldiers, so he made to storerooms had to be found,
By junks Aihaboskai HMCS Sioux, wards a rook about 20 feet ind -za all these probe.
tive locomotives, 12 factories and cyuge (Captain J.V. Brock, one of them but saw a lot of crews could get
force led by HMCS some alanda. He swam towards had to be found, so that the exercise, anchouses are power station D.S.C., R.C.N.) with
oil fumgls and
and tanks, 80
and, some +
killed or H.MAS. Warramung HMAS ure. There he stayed nil tems we leant heavily on the the action and the UBS Forest, night, in hiding, while, bouts aboulders. of our American sod. In addition to the Royal, ploughed through heavy came out, from the enemy try comrades. With their - úzkýšce nhove, much targets us gun em.
and thick, nowatorms Ing to locate him. He was and thance to our doggednone, we placement, forties, airfields, to the mouth of a The shouted at a night. rallway, shods, dry
with did in an amazingly short space, wone ·tt- tacked.
a large motor a operations.
wound
Throughout the
dong Rivor, which serves
016
principal woes const port of Nex, mornin
of time achieve a great deal.
the carrier was acceoned by Chinnanna, Thile neviens kont came out nnti McCallum 21. Co-operation was the keynote
Brittata und Commonwealth
ships
· were foto.
No provide
junize support and that haght that this time ho, would throughout, and the 'miCCESS","DE
It was corky in October when fire during the loading
a Sim Fury aircraft was. 'ibot " dock
ensund
down about 90 miles behind the miles us the Dado por
anders lubangihe of
buenay Long, and the pliot, les piring.
bo. taken prisoner. \* However, this can be seen from the réalisés the British forood had been told, achieved British, American,
"ditching," and "HMB French, Australian, New Z
pan Jand, Datch,” Capstan and [RN) WZWThailand side an
der
sent to his sweet about
Lieutersoftogilny Leonard, Tuzes and-"Fizesty" from the thon that that inofor-bout wor
- 00=cp-serti|| under: tho" Bart of the United
Natline for, the
RAVE Shotsch, near Chester, Belt glat De Carriers HMS getting ready to led to argue abury forplan was trapped in the cockpit, Im4:44yones
the fag, or on the idland, 1948 Cochinda!
ed over the box.
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