THE
MAJORITY
OF
OUR
TIES
ARE
CONSERVATIVE!
MACKINTOSH'S LTD.
13. CHATER ROAD.
THE ORIENT'S OWN
CATWAS
CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1951.
USED CAR
FOR SALE
NEW
SHOW
"But, my dear sir, one distinct advantage that an old car has over a new one is that you can buy it."
London Express Service
DON IDDON
ON
THE ROYAL TOUR
URING the past week have dropped out. Two became I have discussed New so 11 through nervous strain and York with Princess physical exhaustion that they had to give up. One news- Elizabeth, sipped pink gin paperman has got lost. another with the Duke of Edin- has been recalled.
There are burgh, narrowly escaped
about 400 "Regu drowning in Ottawa river, lars" aboard the Press train which precedes the royal train; left the Hotel Chateau but every time we halt at town Laurier through a back win a flock of local reporters climbs dow to avoid the crowds, on and jams the corridors and and probably reduced my club cars. life expectancy by at least
five years.
There is nothing unusual in all
this for anyone reporting the
Royal Tour of Canada.
Room for two
E live in tiny compartments
WE
or in green-curtained upper
and lower sleeping berths con-
I have seen my friends and verted to hard seats during the colleagues grow old before my day. My home is compartiment H (H for horrible) in car wagon
eye:.
This job is strenuous. It is No. 23, and I share this eft.- much harder for the Princess and square cell with Graham Stati- the Duke, but they seem inde- ford of the News of the World. fatigable. The Press is not. We are old friends, but we are Already four correspondents so cooped up night and day that becoming friendship is who were going to make the en- the
tour from coast to coast clightly frayed.
tire
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS
"CLOSING THE RING" CHAPTER 17
CHIANG GOES TO CAIRO
a heavy cold and sore throat, left Plymouth in the Renown on Nov. 12, 1948, to meet Mr Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-shek at the Cairo Conference. At Matta a fresh cold and tempera · kept him in bed, apart turc from & Staff conference and a icur of the battered dockyard.
CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT T
announces
the removal of its Executive Offices
from
75D Robinson Road
and Public Relations Office
from
15 Kotewall Road
to
EMBASSY COURT Hysan Avenue
as from
29 October, 1951
TELEPHONES: Executive Office
Treasurer's Office
war in the Mediterranean hus daizen an unsatisfactory course. Bath the build-up and advance of the Army in aly, making allowance for bad weather, must be con- sidered extremely slow. There is not a sufficient pre- ponderancs over the enemy in the front line
needed COME of the vitally
landing-craft have ben sent from home, losing heavily the weather on the way. A rge number of others have been withdrawn and asstin- bled in preparation for their homeward journey. These onders have now been arrest-
museless date for Mediterranean
purposes....
and the successful
invasion ed upon
the effect on "Over-
The working hours are roughly from seven in the morning unti
опе
the following morning. There are "briefings" at dawn. and "briefings" at midnight. Every hour on the hour, Press officers load uɛ down with hand-. outs, releases, lists of guests, texts of speeches, maps, biogra phical sketches, brochures, pamphlets. and tablold-size history books on Canada.
We are testooned with budges and carry
a dozen red, green, blue, yellow, purple, and white passes which we never use.
Some of us have two homes. of the mainland of Europe, lord" of any possible action we Whenever we halt at a fair-sized Nevertheless they have been could take in the meantime in town overnight we book an hotel maintained until a fortnight the Mediterranean, Including room to get a decent bed, s bath, ago with inflexible rigidity. the problem of Turkey's entry and a shower. This is extrava
gance. but is better than an early Nor must we overlook the dis- into the war.
ecarraging and
When I spoke I said "Over-grave. There are no showers or effect upon the whole of the tord" remained top of the bill, baths in Press trains, only wash- operations in the Mediter. but this operation should not be rooms.
tyrant, as to rule out
enfeebling
is
such a
ranean of the fact that it now common knowledge in the every
other activity in the The women in the train-there
Armies that the theatre is to Mediterranean; for example, are about 60 of them ranging lu 65-are losing be bled as much as necessary little flexibility in the employ-age from 10 to
fact of
the
for the sake of an operation ment of landing-craft ought to their looks and already have lost
Gen. Alexander their grooming. elsewhere in the spring. The be conceded.
We also carry assorted photo. had asked that the dute of their troops end landing- craft being withdrawn from leaving for "Overlord" should graphers, newsreel cameramen,
very battlefield and of be deferred from mid-December radio men, units being put under orders to mid-January.
Eighty additional LS.Ts had for home is in itself injurious. The intense desire to concen been ordered to be built. in. Bri
"dry" tain and Canada, We shouldHE "Press train is trate upon the enemy which
train; no liquor or beer is try to do even better than this. carried us from Alamein and The points which were at issue served, though there are oce
bottle-parties. sustained us in Tunisia has between the American and Bri-casional
Milk and aspirin
Thu been impaired. Yet in the Lish Staffs would probably be drinking is mild and must of us
Mediterranean alone are we
Mr Churchill, suffering from his villa, where he and his wife This were suitably installed; was the first time I had met I was im- Chiang Kai-shek.
reserved pressed by his
calin
AI and efficient personality. this moment he stood at the height of his power and fame.
To American eyes he was one the <f the dominant forces in
He Was the champion world. HE Renown reached of "the New Asia." He was eer- defender of Alexandria on the tainly a steadfast
Japanese inva- morning of Nov. 21. China against
sion He a strong anti- and I flew at once to Communist. The accepted be
was American circles the desert landing-ground lief in
Here that he would be the head of
In the near the Pyramids.
the great Fourth Power Casey
had. of Mr
[Minister
world
after the victory State in the Middle East] been won.
All these views and values had placed at my disposal have since been cast aside by the agreeable villa he was many of those who held them using. Generalissimo Chiang I. who did not, in those days Kai-shek and Madame had share the extensive estimates ofed till Dec. 15, but this is a already been ensconced half Chiang Kai-shek's power or of the future helpfulness of China, a mile away. The President record
may
the fact that the was to occupy the spacious Generalissimo is still serving villa of the American Am- time had gained him such wide the same causes which at this bassador Kirk, about three renown. He has, however, since miles down the road to been beaten by the Communists Side by side with this we bave failed to give any real mea- Cairo. I went to the desert in his own country, which is a
sure of support to the airfield to welcome him very bad thing to be.
I had a very pleasant con- Partisans and Patriots in when he arrived in [his versation with Madame Chiong
Yugoslavia and Albania. These guerilla forces are contain- special aircraft) the Sacred Kai-shek, and found her a most remarkable and charming
ing as many. [German] divi-
to take Rome in January and Royal train. Cow from Oran the next
The President personality,
sions as are the British and
Rhodes In February; to renew The arrangements héngs afternoon, and we drove to
bad us all photographed to- American armies put together. THE first plenary meeting of supplies to the Yugoslavs, settle made are excellent. There are gether at one of our meet-
the Cairo Conference (which
Command his villa together.
arrangements, enough typewriters aboard to ings at his villa, and although
nourished only by droppings was given the code name "Sex- the the Generalissimo and
was held at the Pre- and to open the gean, subject write "Gone With the Wind" bristled his wife are now regarded as anti-aircraft wicked and corrupt reactionaries It is now more than two months sident's vilia on Tuesday, Nov. to the outcome of an approach and more cameres than in Holly-
23. Its purpose was to outline to Turkey, all preparations for wood.
go ahead full "Overlord formally to Chiang Kai-shek superiority
and the Chinese delegation the steam within the framework of mouth of the Adriatic, yet no proposed operations in South the foregoing policy for the
with supplies have
Mediterranean. ships
east Asia, as drawn up by the entered
the ports taken by Combined Chiefs of Staff at position on the eve of Teheran. This is a faithful record of my the Partisans. On the Quebec. contrary, the Germans are systematically driving them from these ports and acquir ing mastery of the whole Dalmatian coast.
The Staffs congregated rapid- both
whole place ly. The with froops and guns, and the strictest cordons by
in contact with the enemy and found to affect no more than a have taken to milk primed with tenth of our common resources, aspirin and sedatives. Mr Rod able to bring superior num- on Thus the whole campaign
Jand has flagged. There is no bers to bear upon him now, it apart from the Pacific. Surely MacInnes, the patient Press off- prospect of Rome being is certainly an odd way of some degree of elasticity could ser goes down the train each morning with medicine for the be arranged.
sick. helping the Russians. to slow
There is no charge for taken in 1943..
Nevertheless, I wished to re- down the fight in the only
had medical attention of this sort. theatre, where anything can be move any idea that we
The chief Press officer Mr weakened, cooled, or were try: Water Thompson, a massive done for some months.
ing to get out of "Overlord."
Hitherto
they
↓
hhave been
tant")
from the air.
am glad to keep
since we have had naval
air and in the
many of their former guarded all approaches. Every- admirers, 1
one set to work at once at their this as a souvenir. various levels upon the
im-
20654
mense mass of business which
38617
had to be decided or adjusted.
Public Relations Office 36279
WE HAVE MUCH PLEASURE
IN
ANNOUNCING
OUR APPOINTMENT AS SOLE AGENTS and IMPORTERS
in HONGKONG and SOUTH CHINA
for
MESSRS J & F MARTELL
of COGNAC
WORLD FAMOUS "THREE STAR”,
V.S.O.P., CORDON BLEU, CORDON ARGENT & EXTRA
COCNAC BRANDIES
DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.
Tol. 20636
What we had apprehended
pro-
from Chiang Kai-shek's sence now in fact occurred. The
in de
How
An
We were in it up to the hilt. To figure frequently in talls, or morning coat, does not travel sum up, I said that the pro-with the Press. He is in the gramme I advocated was to try
to
I am in no way complaining
about this Fress train. It makes British railway's look sick. Many of the cars are brand new, re- dolent of rubber and varnish..
There is a post office aboard, a partially IT ́any dozen offices, and one res- taurant. Breakfast costs around
(MORE TOMORROW) (Continues on Page 7, Col. 7)
Admi. Mountbatten, with his World Copyright reserved. Repro- officers, had flown from India, duction, even and he first gave a description language, strictly prohibited. of the military plans he had beery given and was executing for 1944 has it happened?
In that theatre. To this I added Imaginary line has been the general naval picture. drawn down the Mediler- Owing to the surrender of the relleves Gen. Italian Fleet and other naval. ranean which Elsenhower's munies of all re events of favourable character sponsibility for the Dalmatian a British feet would be estab coast and the Balkans. These lished soon in the Indian Ocean. are assigned to Gen. Wilson There would be ultimately no of the Middle East Command, fewer than five modernised
I had prepared what was talks of the British and Ameri. DURING the outward voyage can Staffs were sadly distracted in effect an indictment of our of operations by the Chinese story, which mismanagement was lengthy, complicated, and in the Mediterranean during had minor. Moreover, the President, the twe months which who took an exaggerated view passed since our victory ut of the Indian-Chinese sphere. Salerno. I gave this to the was soon closeted in long con- Chiefs of Staff, and they, while ferences with the Generallismo. agreeing in principle, made a
All
of hope
persuading number of comments Chiang and his wife to go and tail upon it. The final version
and enjoy read as follows: see the Pyramids
we themselves till returned
For a year from Alamein and to Teheran fell
the from
the landings in Northwest that ground, with the result
Africa the British and Ameri- Chinese business occupied first
cans have had virtually un- instead of last place at Cairo.
broken success in every theatre, and there is no doubt. that our methods of war diree- tion, through the Combined Chiefs of Staff, working under the heads of the two Govern-›
have ments,
enabled our. commanders in the field to.
Mo
for
THE President, in spite of my TH
arguments, gave the Chinese the promise of a considerable amphibious operation across the Bay of Bengal within the next few months. This would have cramped "Overlord' [the 1944 Cross-Channel operation] landing and tank-landing
craft which had now become bottleneck, far more than any of my Turkey and Egean pro- jects, It would also have ham- pered grievously the immense operations we were carrying out in Italy.
the
On Nov. 29. 1 I wrote to the Chiefs of Staff The Prima
deter wishes to put
put on record the fact that he specifically fused the Generalissimo row quest, that we should undertake an amphibious operation simul taneously with the land opera tlong in Burma, want until we returned from Teheran
eat length pre to Calro Lifes valled upon the President; to rotraet a promise. Even 20, many complications aromat
gain resounding victories and In all the history of alliances there never has been such harmony and mutual compre- hension not only in the high direction of the war but emong the commanders and troops in the Add. Our combined operations from the beginning. of the Battle of Alamein to the end of the Battle of Naples and; the deployment of the "Army in Hely may well bo wogarded.ne an extremelsr well-managed, and prosperous,
achieve solid results,
However, since then there has bonn « change. We, have been overtaken, sind, kan genie [outrun by our own sucodssen., Coutala divergences of view,
Taikoo
icing makes the cake
but he doce not possess the capital ships, four heavy arm- necessary forces, One com- oured cruisers, and up to mand has the forces but not auxillary carriers.
the responsibilities
12
the responsibilities, the other Chiang Kai-shek intervened to but not say that he thought that the the forces. This can hardly success of operations in Burma bo considered an ideal depended not only on arrangement.
the
strength of our naval forces in the Indian Ocean, but on the simultaneous co-ordination of naval action with land opera- tions. I pointed out that there was no necessary connection be- #OST "unfortunate of all has tween the land campaign and been the Dodecanese and the feet action in the Bay of Aegean.
The Germans. Be Our main flect bass
ore now complete masters of
be able to exercise its. the Eastern Aegean, Although; Influence in sez-power from already outmulched in the areas 2,000 to 3,000 miles away air in Italy, they have not from the scene where the armies besitated to reduce their aiz were operating,
power there, and have trans- This meeting was brief, and it ferred to the Aegean, forces was agreed that Chiang Kai- ufficient to dominate this shete should discuss further de theatre
talls with the Combined Chiefs Third are two causes for these of Staff.
misfortune. The first hus been mentionbd-the artificial line of division between. Eust and West in the Mediter- rolean, ebeolving the Western
ON
commanders, who have the N the following day a second forces of all responsibility meeting of our Combined
for the vitaliterasia at atake Chiefs of Staff was held by the
in the But The second Provident, without the pende
is the of the Chinese Balegallon,
tổ
have opened Denshadong of "Overlord" discuss operations in Europe and principle, bew tween the British and Amer. The decision at Quebed were the Modlesranean. We sought den StaT ENVIR
takon bok
quenom loq kurver, the relations o
dry twatthuntres and to exchiamare diur views, before, going on 10
TAIKOO
NUGAE
Available in moisture-proof
1 lb. cartons and In 1, 2,
and 30 lb tiris.
From all shops and stores.
TAIKOO
ICING
SUGAR
་