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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1952.
RANCE
GERMANY
IT SEEMS THEY NEED A KEYSTONS
EUROPEAN ARMY ARCH
Wasia, Cyprian Brantamiment with Padi Tenie
Sitting on the Fence.
by
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
net of
No.
His surname begins with an 9
or an M. Or is it a W?
I've no idea,
Well, he knows you all right.
Does he?
• Short and fair with a mous- tache. Ring a bell?
anybody should doubt unpopular. Mrs Camm's
It rings a hundred belis. that the British people courage and deflance is a re-
minder of the days when nobody Oh, I daresay there are lots of have already begun could push a Briton around with people like that. But this chap their painful climb towards impunity, let alone a Scols has known you all his life. the glowing heights of their woman with an umbrella,
Has he? former glory, he should
read the story of Mrs Camm, of Edinburgh, who
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was reported to have been For, in those stirring times,
detained in an hotel at British matrons at home wielded Klagenfurt, Austrin, for the umbrella like an avenging hitting a
frontier guard sword on people of the lower orders who failed in their res- with her umbrella,
pectful duty,
To young people the incident will be without significance, but to those like myself, who were country teen-aged when our was great and powerful, even if
HARD-UP HEROES
THE BRITISH. GETS MAJOR
A CANADIAN CORPORAL'S
PAY AND THE TURKS AND GREEKS MAKE OUR MEN FEEL POOR
Report on the British
Army in
Korea..
By MONTGOMERY HYDE, ́ ́MP
use
1
will.
for
Abroad it was welded like a foreigners who
surge upon were not aware that we owned the earth.
Bus conductors who rang belts before
matrons werg safely aboard the vehlein were cracked across the head with an um- brella almost as a matter routine.
of
Railway porters who gave surly answers were assaulted so frequently that nobody took any notice.
In foreign parts, the British matron with her umbrella was feared as muck as Mrs Carrie Nation with her hatchel Was feared by American saloon keep-
CTS.
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The last time he mw you was In Birmingham, Or was It Blackpool?
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I have never been to Black- pool,
Then it must have been Bir- mingham,
to
I have never been to Blr- mingham either.
Oh, well. It's been interesting meet you.
Interesting to meet you, too,
I'm sure.
Holiday girl
READER writes:-
We are two girl who would like to know how to eke out the ro
travelling allowance for holidays abroad. Hotel expenses for fortnight will leave to to spend on the things we like to do, such as having those funne drinks in funny celes and bars and amtuing talks with English- peaking natives fellows we mean, though decent ones, of course. We think it's all part of the, fun, don't you?
Not only Continental hotel porters cowered before. the cut rolled brolly.
Yes, dear, I do. What's more, no evidence, say the Wor. Office, against-9d. for a 4oz. tablet in of "dunger money," I do think and thrust of a
that our men in Korca deserve Armed police who showed trucu I think your idea of spending a lence or Incivility (or Just holiday abroad exchanging that officers or other ranks in Korea. Korea are involved In
couldn't speak English) blew amusing, but clean, cracks with higher It is scandalous that the men special treatment, and that total expenditure than if they-who-are serving in conditions case can be made out both morale
cf greater danger of the were serving at home. THE
end discom- extra pay tax free and an al- their whistles for help when decent male foreigners in bars-
their ears.
trudging wearily round stuffy British Holdier in This is not strictly true. Bri- fort should have to pay so much lowance, call it overseas, special British umbrellas whirled about so much more entertaining than Korea is
Next time uniques tish troops in Hongkong receive more for these articles of every campaign allowance or what you
frontier guard museums and staring at rude pictures you will never appren Remember that they are en- aree grant of the overseas -
women in sces a stern - faced
ciate, tionably high. He is well aliowance, although they
soldiering in peace-time condi-T
Korea during exceptionally severe tweeds carrying an umbrella like fed. After some regrettable ons. When they go up to the worse to our men in
adjust climatic conditions. Remember, a sword, he had better beware. In fact, your difficulties have delnya he is now well eloth- Korean wastes to live and fight would go sure way to
this
of too, that they are engaging an inequality if the board dangerous
She will be the revived spirit been described in a vivid phrase ed. But he has some serious in
their enemy which does not recognise cilmate, the allowance is stop- NAAFI cannot do it of
wn accord
the Geneva Convention for the of Britain unafraid of a thou Written by a woman colurnnist complaints.
Someone may ask; do not our treatment of prisoners of war sand like him if they are armed now in Spain.
with rifles, revolvers, tommy
cost of After reckoning the cxtent no To some is His biggest grouse
receive and in other ways declines Korean Servicemen
guns or even howitzers.
her accommodation, her supply and
the to
rules gratuities,
these conform nat
of local currency is so small that about his pay and allow. Whitehall is right when it says
Forces of 21 United there is no extra cost of living invefree? The answer is yes. civilised warfare.
she is obliged "to choose be- ta meet in Korea no enfes But the gratulties are not im-
tween baths and bullfights." Nations are at present en night-clubs and golf links like mediately payable and gaged in Korea. The Bri- Hongkong. tish troops are the worst paid of the lot, except for the South Koreans.
unces.
NCO's and of their THY privates now approaches the level of the American other ranks.
ped,
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and
SOAP-9d.
Arctic
doubt
are
many
men consider they are so nig- gardly in amount as to be most insulting.
A private is eligible for £10
NO WORD
The question of
the
for three. months reckonable' overseas allowance
to
of
loent was fre- success Shortly
Brief encounter
CO you're Nat Gubbins, are you? Splendid. I often read your little bit in the paper.
Do you?
As she is staying a fortnight, let us hope she will choose baths.
•
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As I understand it, your own Sometimes it's quite good. But particular problem will be to not always, of course.
Of course not,
A friend of mine met your brother a few weeks ago,
find enough money to buy the funny drinks in the funny bars at the funny prices charged dur- ing the holiday season.
You might be able to manage
• That was very clever of him. the first two, but after that you Why clever?
But it should not be forgot service in Kores. For 12 months quently raised without They are paid less even
ten that many of these troops he is entitled to 219, and for in the last Parliament.
present Parliament than the Turks, for years left wives behind in Hongkong, 18 months (the maximum tour after the
£25. assembled, my Tory colleague, the lowest-paid soldiers in whom they now have to main- of duty in this theatre) Europe.
casey The French and tain. In some
I have The figures for an Army lieu- Brigadier Terence Clarke. M.P. and raised it with the new Secretary Greeks at present get more heard of these wives having to tenant are £16. £37 35.
for War, Mr Head, and urged than our men; indeed the maintain themselves in the com- £51 respectively.
expensive conditions The soldier does not get his that the grants should be made in Honglong.
gratuity as soon as he has com- retrospective. Mr Head replied that he was looking into the the in the NAAFI pleted three months service. He
prices in
must look round quickly for a of funny foreigners are higher in Korea than they has to wait for his moneymaster.
That was over three months from
Because I haven't got a couple is posted away are elsewhere.
The reason
is unti he is
So far Mr Head has brother,
(male) who will offer to pay the that they are based on the the Korean theatre or until, to 280.
funny funny prices for the prices ruling in Hongkong. quote the official statement, made no statement. I hope he
forthwith and let But you must have.. My friend drinks for the next two weeks. For instance, a
elreumstances held will do so
My own experience of foreign- tools 4s. 98. in Germany, and to
have the men have the allowances, to met him.
which they are morally if
Americans· excepted, Ers, Bs. 4d. in
equipment ceased to exist. Koren,
Oh, well. That's different. In spite of the arguments legally entitled.
that they are all a bit funny This inequality is a sub- cleaner, which every man must
buying drinks, or any- official
Then I met an old friend of about parti- have costs 5d. in Germany and usually advanced stantial grievance
your quite recently. Teddy thing else, for anybody, enlarly when our rates of dd. in Korea, a 3 oz tablet of quarters against paying
something or other. Remember? attractive, nicely brought up
glels like you. pay are compared with those soap costs, 4 d. in Germany troops anything in the
PRIVATE'S £22,
of the other Commonwealth forces beside whom our men are fighting.
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For example: a British private, married with one child, geta £22 38. 4d, month. The New Zealander in the same category gets £34, the Australian £45 and the Canadian £67.
IN
in the
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It is the same officer grade. An English subaltern, married with one
£115.
and
shaving brush "the Pit gratuliles
in
(World Copyright Reserved the London Expreza Servier,) natur (MORE TOMORROW)
not
GERMANY. GIRLS GO OUT
ONLY WITH
the
BERLIN. blood-stained
floors of hundreds of
WITH SCARRED
SCARRED FACES
By Antony Terry
him.
shoulder
The
is
even
Indeed, if your nice upbring- ing is too obvious, it is doubtful If they will even offer you a cigarette.
So, unless you are exception- ally lucky with some funny, clean and generous farchigners.
I'm afraid you've had it, dear.
You must either spend the rest duelling, some students' leagues of your holidays in funny cafes have a double set of rules—an whire you can order a cup of "open" one for the university coffee and sit and sip and staro officials to show to police and fer hours on end at small cost, foreign visitors, and the secret or trudge 'round the museums constitution" which is kept and stand and stare at rude pic- carefully hidden.
tures, which, if not vory funny, The secret rules contain sen are usually free.
attica in German Blond, good-looking Von Stud face are genuine, though they child gets £40 a month, New university towns, the young nitz has become the hero of the are sometimes "helped by the
Australian men are once more slashing 20,000 members of the illegal make-up man.
They date from his duelling
·Zealand
the court and obtained an as days and they are once more tences, such as "Our aim is to
I think you would have subalterns each receive £62 at each other in the old duelling league since he defied a month, and the Canadian duelling cult, now revived to quittal. Hundreds of students the ideal of thousands of young revive the spirit of the Prusstan
officer... no member is eligible much funnier time at Margate, "eradicate the softness and shouted Deutschland Uber Alles Germans today.
old duelling socletics were unless he comes of pure Aryan
-(London Express : Surpice) ..for Jowa high originally fraternal organisations, stock...
not Ger- carried
Jews are A Canadian married cor- degeneracy caused by the on hearing the verdict, and
objective," they say, month as an English mujor [cracy on the German race."
"mus; be to erase the degeneres Dressed in coloured, caps, who is married. A Cana- dian sergeant actually re- the traditional regalia of and duching equipment with and duelling fraternity, the mem- Britain has helped to infuse Into duellers, the illegal which Von Studnitz admitted bar was expected to light several German youth since the war and ceives more than nu English the
to replace them by the trun prin- "Mensur Leagues" are meet- having fought other students on more duels. lieutenant-colonel.
The brawl is bloody but not ciples of the Germante' master ing at least once a week in many occasions.
1dbal, for the aim is mainly to rice." most of West Germany's 15 main universities.
poral gets the same pay per influence of Western demo- through the streets, of Goettin- which admitted the most socially mans."
after a "testing" of "Our emitted to the drinking principles. ́of democracy which
TAXED TOO
In attics and back rooms of beer cellars, owned by reliable" former Nazis, the bloody ritual of the sabres is in force once more,
gen.
Police officers who save two evidence produced the swordda Once
Bad Tradition
the
Horst Wessel
scar, not kill.
are the Face and shoulders only parts of the duelists' bodies In addition, the British troops
Other witnesses described how not protested by heavy black
of scars the "wearing"
on the padding, and the aim in have to pay income tax. The
At a recent meeting of Nazi Australians and New Zealanders
face received. In duelling had three-round contests is to slash students at Marburg a big university in the US-Zone, the do not have to pay any tax and
become fashionable again among pt the face. taxed
Wounds are stitched and ban- chairman told his audience: "You the neo-Nazi leagues. They said only the Canadiens are
that one of the difficulties. In daged by tellow medical can call a street sweeper a pig- on the first 30 dollars of their monthly pay -!. This is not per
Police who have tried to in- breaking up the secret duelling students; ripping out the stitches dog and he has no right to ob
.Wan that haps a matter of great, conse
German prematurely to leave an uglier ject, A man of his class has no
honour, to defend.”jugate quenco
en to the majority of our vestigate are being thwarted by societies
a conspiracy of silence among women, students refused to be scar is considered bad form.
After the duelling bouts, in Despite all attempts to kill this other ranies, but it has caused the students themselves and the seen out with a male student considerable. -feeling, among college "elders.
who could not prove masculine which a student is sometimes swaggering brutality, there has the officers.
In Goettingen, one of the most virility and valour" by having forced to allow his face to be not been a single successful British
heavily flashed by a more expert prosecution so far. troops serving in Nazi universities, German jour at least one, duelling.seur.
who Dualling bad old tradition' swordsman to prove his "tough- The prospect of a weapon- Korea do not get any overseas nalists and photograph student in Germany. The grim sword- ness," the Mensur Leagues cele carrying student corps, shouting
reported the allowance. Voy War Offee Wilfred Von Studnitz, acquitted slashed Prussian officer has been brate all nat bee Cellar nationalist songs in shabby: cel-
According to the
It is deeply disturbing Allod spokesman, local overens al by a local court on a charge of a European caricature for over carousals pe
1 Polleo dare not intervene, to cfleibls and some Germans, lowance is granted where the duelling in a
The type was perfectly par- stop the singing of Nazi war it, was a song called Host of have been threatened by the total essential expendHura officers and other ranks is university officials and the Nazi trayed by film actor, Erich von time marches and anti-British Wersel in a Munich beer-cellar NEM data that ve impetus to Hitler-are greater than their comparable duelling corps with reprisals If Stroheim, hinzelf once a student songs"
in Germany. The sword-slashes To conceal their underground the Gehudents Borgparing the expenditure in the United King the nubila pero urban, von Stroheim till Wasts on his Nazi activities and the illegal way for his successore. |dam, Thure has hitherto back of this trial in the foreign
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