THE CHINA MAIL,- SATURDAY; - NOVEMBER 26, 1956.

CONCLUDING: "HALF-FORGOTTEN HEROES"

“Meet Me In Algeria”-So The

Page

43rd ANNIVERSARY

Generals Went In Kayaks FREE GIFT OFFER

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IS Majesty's sub-

marine Seraph had *************** BY DUDLEY

POPE ............

not Bech so much

S Jowoll noted in Seraph's Arab servants nway for the But a big wave swamped the "top brass" before:

jug October 19:

niglit Unknown to him they boat and the undertow sucked American "top brass" 100, 200 (10 p.m.] slipped and were suspicious

old the away the General's trousers and it was in a hurry. It processed

He ordered the and money belt. 31 accordance with police. had a rendezvous with his verbal instructions from Captain Most arrived and the tal is attempt to be stopped and vent

started.

da morange to Seraph to tory on an isolated Algerian (8) Submarine Flotilia ......**

haul off and walt, Below, in the cramped control labormatka, beach and, maybe, with the so, Cal Clark and Jewell Gestapo.

in Tame if Uwcy stayed submerged.

No alternative time hat been specified should they be tate; so to Ro 1arL, “raph surfaced Teak of atreenit atack wa.

wikid over the charts: it be Claintering on board came came quite obvious that Seraph Major-General Mark Clark, uld not make the rendezvous Brigadier General Lemnat- zer, a couple of American colonels, Captain Wright of the United States Navy at three British Army officers of the Special Boud Sretion, Special Service Brigade.

They bad to take, even to the malface 16 was clearly impex bie to get to the rendez.

in Lime.

The generals had a TOO LATE

trip out to Gibralta on the eve

ka Coperation. “Tonen," the ghet Alle Nivas.. to vt North Aires, Ind they wern 4 1 HUSNAKE VI włuch #mude Bulldog D

sadventures

clei wikes' .les.

Two days earlies

1942, tæner by

1 Jik

17 Gelber

but deer working in London with Genel

Batinover on the taxi detalis add

Torch Ten 4 Washington Tave

HONIGHT

He handed over vital about the defence of Algeria, where troops could land, and where nummunition and stores were kept information of great value to the Allies.

The Ganerai and his party hid in the scrub until after 3 om, when the surf seemed to have Seraph was the eased down a ba through talkert They arrning and uttan 1965791, and all ordered to close in the beach this time they could hear the Again and the Fulbots were taken

to the water's edge. sut oling the While Murphy, Tessier and fat beach getting louder --surf another leer held it in the through which they had to light surt, General Clark and Cap- thesis

tra Folbots in

hours, tain Wright, U.S.N.. climbed all ring well.

wind rising thunder of the

and

the

Seraph headed back to Gibral

in na patdied through the first line of breakers, The second Only it wasn't all well

The boat early capsized but managed telephone rang and M Tesler

to get through, followed by the I was auswered 14.

a waming others. All reached the waiting Must the dive A!}R+fT>u.Att to

submarine Detober 20 Zi raid the house

General CAM then at 3.35 ..

Most and his staff Jean noted "Uherchel Light immediately dashed to their cara tar, surtucing next day to trana Dog Hegrees, 15 miles and the off; alle Firnehmen für General Clark and his party At 10 & 111 Lips sputted tie at the ave by jumping to a Calaħna flying boat, which lant on the slide which marked through the window The British

Pros zrous, but they were officers

-long upstairs. the

Past 12

abnost on and General Clark ran to warm sober. 35 tad lai live and them to gel the Filtets hiddlesn

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offshore

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he it said that General Mast. He might be Juk General Clack hat sanalled Washington asking BONGAN TAY Alget when es €1

that if he did not minte rt, the were dite te lanel in a

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Ww -vrough lagi secret ini,n21 - Lon 1 wreck the North Air ca Tandrugs, opaat hom the torkar - Which Clark and as men. cold experi

Ine ty chance of escape was by Aling in the villa.

Verster

The freneral hd apest all boats to go in to the net 1 and their inefcases 20 21. or to go the bul Pouple of

ante a ung, pitch-dark cella mules hagest

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the foot of the sluts,

.13 aloite jaki tret LEAC There, sub-machine guns ready 31 all as well, it would to shoot there way out it nevry- Gamat 1. F146 E wend and

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wy Clark and the other British cering the Push & The Morze better

Wiki Bash "F"

They and Americans walked, beard kie French police walk in They stayed nearly two hours

Fully they went and Must pay pulted the cellar door and out

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were suspicious and

November 27 Yet u Most handel rime Fotbuy in which Gengan kath thm the police had gone,

The exities of Piges Top with Captant they defence thousands of Alliest lives Courtney, the British officer in ald te back soon.

charge 01 The Special But Click ordered his party to quit Wax washed unky the house and, with the Folbols, Next day ... Flying Fortresses Section

Semphis

beside the and nicks in the fore-plane Bew General Clack mund ents party UN

Tin tune why now. to Cabraltar, there the au rapsized, 20 the General hat

It 4th go in another one

was dark marine Souph, vommandex? ly

to the Ti mesenge was rent DL. N. L. A, Jewill, wanted win

It was mus night word

the berophy waing her to come in as Fodos tam kayaks) alowed grille wurth-rast wind

"Ansible. boats puddied the 3,000 yards to the shore The Best but flasheet 44 now svensed impossible to The plan 3365 The Seraph

zusch gon all the offievra get a Polled through the great would take them từ a punt 13 were ashore, being greeted by vakt, but Gesseral Clark d miles west of the tiny pat of Mr Robert Murphy, an Amerieri exded it would be unhealthy to Cherchel.

aboard.

The ght would, dipint

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him, shine 205- Fitz.

wards 2017

Algiers.

It

Le The They buried to the villa

CHARA ..

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İLAN the wart

UNIBATS and rolled them up with a heavy

peered with goa to money belt Generod and his stuff would then wait for Cameral Mast, who was

IN -toned this m Ane packile ushote in the Folbols to due at 5 mm. The owner of the rat and started off with Captain

villa, M the rendezvous

S.B.S Tessier, had sent his Lavingstone of the

FRONT LINE CITY-

LINE CITY-WHERE

CHILDREN LEARN TO HATE

MY

Gazı

footsteps are dogged by 2,000 Dead End Kids as 1

DONALD WISE reports from an Arab refugee camp where "hatred is so violent it strikes you like the blast from an

and aven door,"

tolla the story of 3 now

walk through the United race of Dead End Kids who are growing up in frontior land,

Nations refugee camp OR the Mediterranean seashore Then

at Guza.

Barbed haired

of

their

drove northwards There are seven refugee toward the front line. At the camps and the total side of the narrow tarmac road inmates is swelling by 6,000 4 Like ແ aimless, unhappy fong-burrelled anti-tank guns year. Pied Piper 1 peer into grey- pokeri their STIONS through Mr Douglas Mills, a grey- stime houses and blackened, vor camouflage netting.

former Ministry of rugated-Iron shacks.

wire surrounded a moss of A.A. Labour man from Westminster To a 13-year-old crop-headed artillery rushed up by the Street, Coventry, runs a Voca- Arab boy I say: "What do you Egyptians during the tast totional training centre. He do all day?"

tense days.

turning out some 300 welders, "I hate Jews," he

and wood- Ictal We were hatted at countless electricians,

plumbers, moulders, The host about us growls agree- roadblocks, where the conduct workers, nient.

Ing omeer leaped out of his and draughtsmen. truck to whisper the day's pans- "UN. headquarters in Beirut word to suspicious sentries. must find them somewhere

work- they

he can," wearily.

tella

ine.

Is a city of hopelesmess Thila

that and hatred so violent strikes you like the blast from an ever door.

More than 300,000 Arabs live

Guza is ke a South Coast There is a midnight

to

said

curtew

in the five-by-twenty-Ave-miles town in the invasion-score days in Gaza. When things get bad Gaza strip. Of these, 219,000 of 1940 and 1941, israeli planes the U.N. men go under a sort arc refugees from an Arab

ancak over for a look and the of polite house arrest. Palestine that is now. Israel.

Kuns open

Just now the U.N. wives have They have no flocks, no land, no work, and no place of their

up.

In Gaza city the shops are been sent away because of the tho always rendy to help the explosivo situation - after soldiers spend their money. Yes, battle at El Auja sometime ago, year сать the refugees. That

works out at about 14s, Od. o month for each of them. Not

sleep and

1

When tho Arab-Jew war enough for food, much less for I crunched up a driveway of ended

10 1049 frontiers had pocket money.

scashells and, in a small neat changed. What had been Arab

So what do they do? Well, house at the end of It, found an was Jewish.

Robert they begin each day by remind, axhausted Australian. The fugitives walled for the ing themselves that Israel has Stevens, of Brisbane, holds the United Nations to help them taken what they believe to be U.N. purse-strings and runs the Now they have no hope. And theirs. Th tell themselves refugees organisation.

He ha They of the 213,000 refugees more the same thing before they fall been in Caza since 1945. Ho than half are ogad under 10.)

at frequent intervais knows this place and its hatred. the Ahead of these young people during

He lay back in. a deep chair day, A few-3,000 perhaps scratch and said: "I suppose

about stretches a lifetime of empty days, with nothing but the la- up £12 a month working for 40,000 children attend some sort of schooling, but they learn only centive to keep the hatred of the U.N. staff. Israel blazing ::

no movement to hate. To get to Gaza I flow to restrictions. In Jum, packted "Imagino more than 10,000 henvlly guardod senside airstrip Gaza and lis surroundings live Dond End Kids, with mora where Egyptian Air Force jela 30,000 more Arabs trying to coming along at the lay in their dispersal bays a few exist whore, before the Arab 6,000 a your. All they want to minutos jet time from the Jew war started, there were do is to grow up and kill Jowe frontier.

20,000.

"(COPYRIGHT)

There are

reto of

loned carby. General Clark was back in England the next day reporting to the Princs Minister and moking last-minute changes in plans for Operation "Torch." Seroph berllied al Gibraltar on October 25

But Jeweli called again DI

while strd

vast October 27, Ricets of Allied ships converged en North Africa from Britain, Canada, and America ter the invusiun, he took Seraph w rendezvous a few cables off the Frch coast.

When it was dark a tiny row- ing boat with oats mufflert enure ningside. Five people climbed bard Semmph mud the rowing bout was sunk. Those Ove peopły were General Olraud, who had escaped from the Germans, his

and three companions. The time was just after mid-

night on November 1942. Two

Later

day'a

500 Allled ships. vecurted by 350, vessels of the lended in North Royal Navy,

de of wor had Atries. turned.

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Pan American celebrates 20 years

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On November 22, 1935, the China Clipper took off from San Francisco Buy

on the first transpacific flight to Hawaii, Midway, Wake, Guam and Manila, establishing weekly air-mail service. From this pioneering start Pan American bas gone on constantly, year after year, developing and providing the world's finest air travel

1936 Pan American famugurates regular wookly passenger service from San Francisco to Honolulu, Guary and Manila, Service was extended to Hong Kong the following year. One-way fare San Fran claco to Honolulu was $360-flying time, 21 hours.

1949 Double-decked "Strato" Clippers introduced

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◆ Clyde Benderland, Oakland, Calif.

1939 Pan American Introduces the first of its new Bleet of Clipper Flying Boats on its transpacific routes and, a year later, on South Pacific routes, These famous Clippers made Fan American's over- ocean Bying comfort known throughout the world.

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