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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1953.
INSIDE CHIANG,
ISLAND
But where are the 600,000 bayonets?
9.50
By CHARLES FOLEY
Foreign Editor of the
Daily Express (London)
Taipeh. In the vast red-brick presiden- must have been a.m.: see the Foreign tial building
synchronised with Eisenhower's Minister. 11 a.m.: the call deneutralising Formosu. Ministry of Defence. 12
For at once + blaze
of
noon: the Secretary-General. publicity lit up the military 3 p.m. the Prime Minister, scene.
Round and round we go, to It was claimed that Chlang report Generalissimo
the Chiang leada mightiest army In Kai-shek's campaign against Southeast Asia. It was alleged Red China with his headline that he has ten front-line armies each of 20,000 men, ormy of 600,000 men.
with 80,000 sailors, 80,000 air force men, marines, commandos, and service troops in support.
While awaiting assignment to some outpost within sight and sound of war, we fill in the time. drinking glasses of green tea at every halt with a Minister or a warlord,
And this is what they tell us, "Here is Red island-we attack. The enemy reinforce we attack again, The enemy reforce. We attack once more. The enemy do not reinforce. Another victory
for, Free
China."
We are told that Chiang's secret agenta are everywhere In Red China. They report despair and choos, the economy collapsing, hospitals filed with Korean wounded, hunger mounting. Communist rulers have butchered 14,000,000 people,
The
army in Formosa is
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a successful landing, the nation will come flocking to the Free China fog.
Island song
Not only were all these chaps raring to go but some of them. It was stated, had already gone, Thiriy islands right up against the mainland were claimed to have been captured. A com- plete division had been put ashore and stayed three days.
Meanwhile, the British were asking questions and Washing- ton was passing them Formosa for the answers.
A retroat
10
. If, as had been so proudly claimed, there had been all those battles with the Reds, hundreds in a year, then where was the U.S. Seventh Flee which Truman had sent to pre- vent Chiang breaking out?
At
HIRE
"That'll teach 'em to write slogans on our coaches."!
A Buckingham
Palace Investiture
FILES
London Express Service
The Magic Power Of A
I
Piece Of Pasteboard
London.
T'S amazing what a small square of paste-
What were the American military doing conniving these violations of neutrality?
the Chase Bounded General retreat and Chiang's headline army vanished. The commando raids on the mainland and the islands became a mere nelec.
printed en pirates and partisans, fishermen
and smugglers.
That is the song of the island. It warms hearts and opens nurse-strings, especially when we are told not a single allied soldier will be wanted for the great liberation campaign which will end all our troubles in the East.
fact ig
But what in
the fighting value of the army of 600,000 bayonets with which The Generalissimo proposez 10 reconquer Red China?
Anyone asking the question a fortnight ago would have been lold
"terrine" especially by Major-General William Chase, head of the 700 American military men who are "making over Chiang's army.
of of
Across the square from my window in the Friends China Club the flags America and Free China float side by side.
Stop-watches In General Chase's Military Assistance and Advisory Group headquarters
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I spent
some days trying to see the army. I was told, "To- there wil be cx- morrow ercises." Then I was old, "It is the Chinese New Year."
that
One Minister in n office guarded by A Jackbooted Chinese sentry confessed the army was a little tired of throwing live grenades at each other to Impress foreign visitors. One can sympathise with that.
Tomorrow:
An Army Grows Old.
SITUATION VACANT
From
Yorke Henderson
London.
By BRETT OLIVER
placed a red plush stool, with a handrall on one side, on the floor before the Queen. The officer followed the same procedure as board can do-provided the order of investiture in belts, round their
ample Fairfax, but knelt his right knee on the stool and bowed his head. it is the right colour highest awards first and waists.
They were members of the The Queen had been handed and has the right words groups receiving the same
Queen's Bodyguard of the sword by another attendant and on it. Just an decoration, alphabetically.
Yeomen of the Guard-Beefeat- with it she touched the officer, ordinary colour, like pink,
in first on the right shoulder, then It was not hard to imagine ers. They stood motionless
their
knight, scarlet tunics, scarlet the left. He rose, n
queen, and just a few words in
shook black type. That's all there the last checking-over of stockings with frilly gartera at spoke with the
shoes, white hands and retired. It was all
in
20 seconds. perhaps was to the particular square uniforms, the adjustment of the knee, buckie
The of pasteboard resting in the a Sam Browne belt, the last ruffs and squat black hats.
And so it continued. ten minutes, the In another
ringing voice of the
Σοτά tobacco dust of my pocket, flick at an immaculate morn
Inst fussing leading section of the long de Chamberlain, the bows, ing suit, the But it worked like a
ot men and women to be do over the set of feminine coruted appeared from the East Pentation of the decoration, charm.
headgear.
Gallery, crossed the back of the sometimes a few words,
a handshake and the respectful into an ballroom, disappeared
retreat from the Queen's
I carried it in a taxi fron
Street Fleet
along the Strand and down. The Mall
WANTED: A tough guy crowd, and pulle venent
climate is healthy. The job is not.
The would-be employer is Mr Stanley Gllinson, who farm owns a 7,000 acre near Thomson's Falls, in the heart of Kenya's Mau Mau country.
over
anteroom and reappeared at the GLITTERING
door
oor on the right of the dais, presence, There, it was brought up sharp
PRECISION
the
machine-ko precision about the whole occasion, but this did nothing to attendants simple but attractive.
tra swept through the National
be seated."
CEREMONY
to receive hor
to Buckingham Palace. The TN the State ballroom, by a morning-suited gentleman It Palace, rising loftily out of seated relatives looked holding an investiture list.
was his job to make sure that the morning mist, looked dwarlike in the loftiness of the right person received the HERE was a impregnable. So did the tall the place. Behind them, on right decoration. iron railings, the tall a balcony let into the wall, At 11' o'clock sharp, the detract from its dignity. It was
sat a 17-piece string orches. Queen- and her shaggy topped Grenadier Guardsmen and the tall tra, playing a succession of walked in and took their places If the speed with which the helmeted policemen.. extremely pleasant melodies. on the dais. The string orches- investitures were made was a Yes, impregnable. With Their scarlet tunics looked Anthem and the Queen, in a the Quoon could not be expected little surprising, it was becauso out that pasteboard...-rich-and-right-for the occa-clear-sure- volce requested-to- Linger-- when there were It was all too simple. The gion, and get off the gold- "Ladies and Gentlemen, please elmost three hundred people cabbie, apparently, had done painted pipes of an organ
personally With her on the dais were recognition. She did not speak this before. He drove forming the backdrop of the her Lord Chamberlain, the to everyone but she had a smile straight up to the front balcony's recess.
Earl of Scarborough, two aldes- and a warm handshake for all, gate, the
de-camp, two Royal Artillery Unless the Queen had a few The white and gold officers at the table of decora words to say, an average of
walls of the tlons and three attendants.
about ten seconds elapsed the nose of the old bus jut sweep of the
between each call from the Lord ting into the courtyard. Cool room were broken by two
Chamberlain. huge tapestries at 1ts you like.
the I addressed myself to a centres, and by clusters of
lamps.
no delay. Two HERE was nose jutting in through the self-lighted
Lord Chamberlain, standing to to chat with women, especially window. It belonged to a rows of raised seats, in the cae side and a little behind the those in the Services, and with large policeman.
particular- same rich red satin, ran Queen, read Immediately from men of the Services,
his list and the investiture had ly of the Royal Navy, "I've come for the investi- along those walls.
The procedure for the women started. ture," I said, forgetting the Above everyone hung
George Cross-to be being decorated hardly differed pasteboard.
eight of the biggest decorated. Sergeant Fredericks from that for the men. Instead of bowing, they curtsied. And "Card please." Gruff. But chandeliers I've ever seen. Then he read the citation, telling they wore hats, while the men
Fairfax, Metropolitan Police." polite.
Each was fully seven feet how Fairfax had repeatedly were bareheaded. Some of the from glittering base to risked his life on a Croydon women, nervous, confused their Ashimmering top. By some rooftop while trying to arrest curtsies, putting their left foot the two youths Later convicted behind their right: Instead of trick of lighting, they re for the murder of one of Fair right behind left. But several sembled compressed rain- fax's colleagues.
men forgot themselves Lows, the crystal peardrops
As the Lord Chamberlain 100, Two or three omitted to catching an emerald green, spoke, Fairfax left the head of tumed on their heels directly as they retired and a couple the file and stopped forwart before the Queen and hurried blue, a pink.
three pecas till he was abreast off as though the occasion was of a Household officer standing
*** too much for them.
POISED
On leave in Dublin, he is using the opportunity to look for a security officer for his farm. The man for
"Er... yes." the job must be over 35 And it Was done, and be prepared to live dan-| glance, a nod, a wave on. gerously.
Gillinzon warns ap plicants who think they might take the chance: "This job is dangerous."
He makes no secret of the fact that his nearest neigh bours have been attacked by Mau Mau and that one man was killed and his wifa sovere- ¡ly wounded,
TROUBLE ZONE
I
He adds; "The farm is in the middle of the trouble area. [Bon't want any applicants with difficulties Illusions about the cnd dangers.
"I want man who will be able to make sensible security arrangements, to lay trip wires and set up à sound system of [ alarms. That is why I want a
man over 35,"
How dangerous is the job really? Says Mr Gillinson: "The farm is bounded at some dis- tance by scrub in which it is known n.largo number Kikuyus are hiding. They now using rifica and other stolen arms to a much greater extent."
INSIDE
MY chariota taxi is
too unromantic rolled across the court.
They were truly magni-
at the corner of the dais.
I noticed a definito inclu- The tion on the part of the Queen'
Then as the Lord Chamberlain
finished speaking, Fairfax
yard, up to the face of Acent pieces of work. I the Palace, Unloaded, I noted they were securely walked through an archway, hung from the mosaic stepped briskly along the carpet across an unsuspected inner styled celling. They must courtyard and on to the havo weighed a ton. deep red carpet of the front those people below.... steps.
"
res-
BEEFEATERS
of the
bow
to the centre of the dais, turned AN hour passed and still the All left, towed deeply to the Queen long fie moved forward, halt-
and stepped up to the dals.
Ated, moved forward again. Tho. the same time, the Queen took Queen remained as
poisid as one step forward, holding the George Cross which she and over. In the background fovered.
the
the: melodies of pleasant taken from a plush cushion held
On the dais, 150 ery orchestra. by one of the Royal Artillery A ned and a direction up a FOUR hundred people were officers. Solemnly, the hung the Yeomen stood. mollonless, and wide staircase into what is carpeted dals, it was, bare ex- relaxed and began talking with decorations dwindled..
there, facing a low red- modal on Fairfax's tunic, then on the table the medals and called the East Gallery. It cept for an L-shaped table on him,
A commissionaire, plendent. The card again.
to the
KNIGHTED
the
the
Eventually, after an hour and is filled with oil paintings one side, n. draped, expanse I discovered later that the be invested bowed and left the twenty-five minutes, the last to and incredibly white gleaming with trays of ranked Queen asked him about his atatuettes of Incredibly decorations and ribbons.
police service and, after inquir 100m. At once, the orchestra began the Anthem, everyone pure looking women.
A wide alcove behind the ing about his wounded shoulder, Through
The Queen stepped from the room dals held the key to the room's asked if he knew what type of rose and the ceremony was over.
men he and, his fellow-ciflcers [ Two - thrones of State
duis and moved.. out of lustre. where Investitures are held stood beneath what is known were going out to arrest on the ballroom, acknowledging
curialos Normal working days it is as the Durbar canopy Red night of the rooftop shooting.
of women. In the State ballroom. Today, the velvet, it hangs like a bell from
audience as she passed.
In another ten minules, the amooth parquet floor was the alcove celling. On the drape
State ballroom was crapty and dotted with plain, rod satin- behind the thrones the Royal
newly-decorated husbands and MILE Queen talked with the fathers were gading: their kin covered chairs. And on them coat-p-arms stood out sharply.
man with casy poise, smiling in the halls and courtyard Bat the mothers, wives, It was 10.45; the investiture
was to begin in a quarter of an and interested. Then she shoois, downstairs. families of those whom the hour. Just then, five figuren of hands with him, he stepped I walked out the way I had Wren
Queen was to honour. Their the past filed in from the East back to the runner carpet, bowed
come, out through the front gato with the policemen there, Legionary? · an ex talk was subdued. They Gallery turned sliently down again, turned and walked out.
to the
As soon as he had tumed, the and out past the crowds on the detective of the Irish Civic waited:
the rafale and stroda up Guard; professional,
1 wondered what dala. They moved to positions Lord Chamberlain summoned pavement. Downstairs in another the back and stood at case, the next, w tail Royal Navy those people would have giveó, hall their honoured ones fight bands holding long, glint oficer to be knighted. As he to have had the little square of
of the attendants: pasteboard. were being marshalled into ang pikes, left hands booked spoke, me
Despite the warnings over 100 men have applied for the jub, proving that the Irish stlike a bit of spice
with their living
Some of the applicants are |straight. from the pages of P. C. A former Spanish
Foreign
soldiers who' have, seen servies' in 'Afri-
ca and at least one
hunter,
white