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"We KNOW you dîn't showing Rock 'n' Roll.
That's why we're coming in to bust the foint."
The WAR NEHRU DOESN'T WANT the WORLD to KNOW
T
HE Indian Army is winning its tawdry fillin war against The rebellions Naga
tribesmen.
Twelve thousand crack. troops are driving in three calunins. Through the jungle. covered Assam hills the same wilderness of strug- gling creeper But bream the grave of the Japanese in the turning-point battle of the Burmon campaign.
Shell-pitted Kohima 14 head- more an army quarters. Its shabby tin- buildings shudder roofed again with the shock of rouring artillery.
once
Old weapon pils are man- with ned again in places
glorious Tames Piquit Hi, Church Knoll, Jail Fill -old Jeep tracks are back in use upon the surrounding unfriendly hills.
The
JUST FANCY THAT...
FIVE greyhounds printed up the shanight in the sovath raco ot Foolstock Greyhound Stadium, Wigan.
As they rounded the first bend, (a rabbit confronted them on the
track
the
The five dogs ignored rabbit and went on chasing the dummy bar,
N°
·
NO one quite knows why, but London. b drivers аге langer, on average than the con- ductora.
They are bigger (round the cheat and waist) when they join, | bigger when they retire, They are bigger when young, bigger when old.
#
All this was discovered from sity of sizes of uniforms
issued to 1,270 drivers and 904 conductors in 1954. The results are disclosed in The Lancet.
•
THE newspaper Momento Sera has appealed to the police stop tourists buthing their
to
toet in Rome's fountains.
Marlon Dietrich Bet the
Page: 6
1190
SANDEMAN
SCOTCH WHISKY.
The King of Whiskies
SANDEMAN
SCOTCH
WHISK
example. Now tourists on aight-Available everywhere $16.50 per Bottle seeing trips and
One "veryte-loak-Bole Agents: DODWELL. & CO., IAD, ing English couple, in shorts and shirts, plunged head-flest into the magallicent Fontana Esedra, in one of the grandest piazza.
The newspaper complains that police are too busy watching to soo who has the prettiest, lens,
IT was pay night, life was good -und Zahiruddin Ansari's friend dared him to rum UP a desounding escalator at Leicester Square station, London.
This cost him 10s, when bo pleaded guilty at Bow Street to Nasounding fr escalator by A stairway ather than that ex- pressly provided."
•
He condossed: "By the time i stopped I was very tirod."
DEMEMBER the vodka the Kremlia?
Russians have serooch party
Well,
now the
becn to a Newfoundland.
The Noga tribes, They arri The damage, the campaign's pion
runs into millions. in out of the jungles they know cost,
Not total defeat for the so well.
epearing and shooting result? Nagas policemen ing Indian offelnis.
They are to be given more self-rule under the coming
of the in reorganisation
Indian A provincея
14th Army to familiar places Kohima, Imphal and
war which Indian troops troops are now sealed off in o
remote of the
hills. tribesmen the waging
again to complete disaster taken A war in which villages burn
are
on
From RUSSELL
201
The latest reports. that whole tracts of the
scalps are SPURR
The ninth and
vital prbitled) was the Chinese in- most agreement clause of this
sugion of Tibet. #wed that It be reviewed in
the Tibelan anal Burma borders overnight acquired 3 new strategie significance.
hill country Je starving 1057-after 10 years implying Whole areas scarcely mappi through loss or destruction that the Nagus could opt out of and seldom visited along of crops.
Disease is spread- Indin as they then wished. ing. Many homeless refu- gees are already believed to have died.
Suppression
Facts and figures aren't easily obtained about this costly. destructive little war. Premier Nehru doesn't want outsiders looking in on it. Some edge might be taken off all this high-flown Some of the panting, per-
Indian condemnation of spiring Indian patrols push-colonialist suppression." ing out over these tracks the Burma Star on wear
They their jungle-green. pick their way past aban- doned tanks, the
creeper. grown skeletons of Mitsui trucks, sometimes the rust- વર્ષો anouts of forgotten mountain guns.
On the run
The Indians
Report- ers aren't even allowed to visil em- battled Kobi-
ma.
ย
1
gol neat as pos- sible to the trouble area during 21 week in the Assam hills. con- Driving
the wartime care. rains that road
Inove
fidently, though with
The
have
monsoon
1
from
been helping the Imphal
TIBET
The agreement was afterwünk repudiated by the Indian Parlia ment. The Naga negotiatorA went back 10 their villages swering betrayod
tilay
hand
In
The Goverment poured rupees for roads and for schools be a medical tudiüities,
A tali professional rebel with a partly paralysed face began elamouring for independence or
war.
Zapu Phizo had already fought the British. He joined the Japanese invaders of Burma and tried with little success to organise a puppet Naga force.
He came home after the war, hadlod as a patriot by the Indian Nationalists. Then he demand- ed freedom.
ASSA
PAKISTANPRAL
HRIS
MARDALAT FONTENA
BURMA
Thui wasn't to Recording
the book. India W 48 already Phico "free." obstinately em- phasised the Nagas weren't 1bot they would never be free as long as Indian
polke
and
oficials
ruled the Naga hilis
He wonted an Independent Naga State em-
bracing 300,000 tribesmen
Hu
by
have
Wis
The programme might
But 11 proved
popular mi bandled
fumbling! bureaucrats. Pampous, unsym-
found pathetic officials Nakas
"Torant, spolied, and childish." They had been too "pamperce" by the British.
the
kicking
Gn
"Need
11 bil of Bround,
These blighters." Indian civil servant was heard to remark.
THE NAGAS needed any- thing but kicking. They were free men. fierce in war, but gentle in peace.
They could be devoted trends, offering rico beer in their remote tain villages. They could adly enemies, swift and mune with a spear or gun in the jungles they called their OWD.
m
PAGOS A
Rice beer
Towards
burst
in
a
Screech is a dark, heavy New- foundland rum. The Rusalana headed by Soviet Fisheries Minister Mr A. Ishkov, were WON'T HEAL euch given a glass of it at BUT THAT
BITTER HATREDS
reception in St. John's. INDIA'S BY
And they could not take it. PRIVATE | After one drink they discreetly went on to something less ex- plosive.Scotch whisky.
The Assam
Ruies came
column
Ja was ambushed rainstorm outside Kohima, dozens were killed and the rest THE senttered. Their arms and AROUSED equipment were looted,
EMBARRASSING
WAR.
(COPYRIGHT)
NEHRU
Koluna was us much under siege us in the Burma campaign. Twice it was attacked by yelling tribeanen who hacked and shot their way into the outskirts.
The two main roads one to Dimapur in the plains and the other acroes mountains to neighbouring Imphal-were cut Just as effectively as they once
were by the Jape.
Rond convoys were ambushed by well-concealed guerlijns in The Jungle. Troops were killed and civilians robbed.
The war
Rilemen died swiftly und often
ruin-sodden among the trees and ferus as the monsoon months silpped by. Police posts, schools, and administrative buildings went up in flames,
Hastily a retreat was called Kohima to the oki
perimeter σε the perating
arrival reinforcements.
the end of 1034 Phizo struck. Tribal druMS the summoned the warriors in their The Tice and calbers,
апу odd kilts
was beyond Aosam round, spears thing the In- beer wils patred
FCs could wartime handle. were sharpened. und habiting the
Scrips began appear- guna retrieved from a thousand Ing on Naga belts again, just Nagas are almost over. At through battlefields immor- wild country either side of the
hiding places.
like the head-bunting days of Fourteenth Indo-Burmese border. last it is possible to get out talised by the
100 years ago. beyond the nervously guard- Army, I was able to inter- Nehru irritably refused.
A last offering to the forest
ed perimeters.
view travellers and passing said that no independent State gods, a sacrifice of chickens upon
stone llars-and WELL could survive in those hills. soldiers.
round Nehru's Administration. THE NAGAS are on
Phizo whipped up angry the run
Within a week pathetic rem-
each opposition.
the Tucsong But always ncross
He organised p
the remotesi nants of their so-called rond leading into the Naga walk-out of 6,000 tribesmen frontier division,
from a Independence Army
meeting Nehru was Naga territory along the Burma are country there is a barrier
was Aaming with scattering into the border with a military policeman about to address in Kohima. He border.
Polloc posts WOTC organised a comploto boycott of revolt. hills. While villages gò demanding entry passes, the local elections, a widespread attacked, buildings burned, and
refusal to pay taxes, and slowly pro-Indian headmen murdered. up in flames, suspects are herded
Indian into makeshift Indiun oficials Indignantly began sabotaging the
Road convoys were ambushed, concentration camps and deny the area is closed. Nothing administration.
ruspension bridges sent plung- authoritarian, I just rice-fields return to the
ing into mountain gorges, restricted.. "temporarily weeds.
100th after another
or so it will be all right, old chap . . . Troops have strict in- just now it's a little dangerous atructions to behave but for unescorted travellera" inevitably there are incl- A conducted tour will be donts. Too many men have arranged eventually but not been ambushed or murder- unui the Nagas are thoroughly reckons od in the six-month-old cam. subdued. The army paign, Tempers are frayed, that will take another couplo fingers are quick on the trigger,
of months.
an
official
DELHI IN spokesman would havo
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The Assam Rifles were called known that only o handful in. They are a somi-military supported Phixo.
But those force, lightly armel, formed by who know tell me there was the Brilish to maintain order. hardly a tribe not aiding in various WKYB the
The disorders were put down increka- ingly bellicos agitation wared with difficulty. ; In the name of the Naga Ña- "Monai Couteɛl.
Britain had
For this?
INGRENA
JUONNEN..
They arrived under armoured escort up the Dimapur road. Artillery was again sited round the town pumping shells into posta somewhere Up Phizo moved secretly into the snipore
the surrounding hills. main Naga hills area around among
barivago whistled over always belloved Kohima, Opposition was TOW- The
the great British war cemetery. his oxtremist policies. In leaving the Nagas in peace in to Promier Nehru has admitted The more remote tribal arms Still he advocated all-out war, where lo the men who died defending India' in the name of the Nagu affair has been mis- along the Burma border were The man who led the opposition, freedom A well-known Naga doc handled. The trouble dates penreoly administered at all. was mysteriously murdared, bor was shot dead outside back to the British hund-over The fow Brist officers sent to one else apparently held back in India. The first Indian Go- superving tribal lead-unting called on the entire Nags nation when the maator rebel finally his house by Indian soldiers. vernor of Asmam, the province more than halt Ho was unarmed and had bordering Burmin which in and fouds, taken no part in the rebel- cludes the Nega fly, told the lion. Two men now, awalt triberen they would enjoy the The Indian Government de The upriding won led by the
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"opodad up. The reason (not the fiercest and toughest of all lítila more shooling.
to ovalt in April this year
an, Mrunder cover of the monsoon, V
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