THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939.
ON INDIA'S THREATENED FRONTIER
f
AS TROOPS MOVE UP
CHINA CLAIMSE
MENTI
TIBET
LAOS·
[INDIA OUTER MONGOLIA
RUSSIA?
A REPORTER FLIES IN
TO FILE ON-THE-SPOT
REPORT OF THE CLASH
IN THE MOUNTAINS
by Geoffrey Thursby
Jorhat,
LAST week I flew to India's new forward army
EAST
ASSAM JORHAT
inflam
Q
{PAKISTANTM)
BURMA
200
"Bengal};
MILES
killed. The rest are working their wuy buck through the Jungle-among snaites, panthers, and blood-sucking leeches towards another army post.
There were originally 34 men The survivors
headquarters set up at Jorhat to deal with in this platuon. Red Chinese aggression along the north-east
frontier.
are expected to reach the post
in two days.
They should be able to report in detail on the Chinese moves. As I arrived Indian Air Troops are already moving up
Information already reaching Defend the threatened Force planes were taking to
frontier, 1 saw lorry-leads of the new H.Q. leaves no doubt Chinese are well off from Jorhat Airport to men in jungle-green uniform that the drop supplies to harassed and stro? helmets driving equipped and prepared. Supplies outposts manned by the Assam Rifles in the steamy heat of the dark green hills and valleys.
through Jerhat.
The Chinese Reds Are now known to have penetrated eight lies into Ilia hi some parts of the north-east frontier region,
mure shooting,
I am the first reporter to understand there has reach forbut.
To get here I
took of
from Calcutta and flew for four hours over the dark green Cen country of Assam.
Outpost
been
are coming overland to them constantly.
And this is the pattern of the Chinese aggression.
were
Plast, there
probing partfes of 10 or a dozen zuen, the border and They crossedi scouted on the Indian side.
Then the Chinese attacked in the company strength, driving Tonight radio caiteet is lust Aasam Rifles from their post. with pistoon of the Assam .. If the Rifles platoun had was attacked by stood and fought it would have Indian Res which
at the outpost of been overwhelmed. 200 Chinese to
Longhu Jour days ago.
I is believed that sumie the rillaton have been
I watched the Arny working rapidly complete its new headquar
ters.
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Here at Jorhat I can see the mountain ranges leading back to the Chinese frontier.
The twin-engined Indian Air Force transports are flying through henry grey cloud, which swirls round the peska. This is the risk they face to drop supplies to the outposts.
Dangers
It involves some of the most dangerous flying in the world. Drops have to be made some- times on to open spaces 50 yards
square.
So fur there have been no
ammunition successful
drops. Ammunition Intended for rome of the posts has fallen into the Jungle.
The Indian fliers have not been able to spot the Chinese,
Beds The
are sheltered by langled undergrowth just os the Japanese were in wartime Malaya.
At dawn tomorrow the airlift men will be out again, There has always been an airlift to the frontier area, but it is being stepped up rapidly to deal with the new emergency,
Sealed
When the Indian Army kes positions ready to move strength towards the Chinese, the hardest part of the air cperation will begin.
While the ground troops advance uphill, the airmen will have to dy in their supplies.
The whole area on the Indian side of the frontler is scaled off. Not even Indians are allowed in there without a special puss
Dut most people think the Chinese will go on causing trouble, although they do not expect a mass Chinese attack.
Reports from other points along India's 2,000-mile border with the Chinese show that the Red's LIC continuing their aggressive approach.
Titey Dre increasing their InAltration from Tibet Into Nepal.
Cummings
"Nervous, Mr Khrushchev? May I invite you to join the Western Powers?”
Loudon Express Servic
BUDAPEST NEWSLETTER from GEORGE WHITING
The half-forgotten name
Budapest.
TEAR a pair of grey W
and flannels
藉
sports jacket in any cafe in this once beautiful but now battle-shot city that bestrides the Danube.
In two minutes you will be spotted for what you are wondering and wun- dering Englishman on the
side of wrong notorious Curtain.
that
The man or woman
at the next
wait table will till the gipsy violins start wailing, and then whisper out his or her heart-in- what they evitably about call the counter revolution has of 1956, and all that gone on since.
I have been sitting through a dozen such quick-look-over- the-shoulder colloquies in the last few days. The shortest and most poignan! was with an elderly woman who asked If way English, burst into tears, and then fed,
Shadowed
1
فرقة
One name you are not en- couraged to mention that Cardinal Mindszenty,
Primate
of Hungary, who sought sanc- vary in the American Legation in Szabadnag Ter (Freedom Square) after being released from gaol during the uprising three years ago.
Not even liberal applica- tions of the native fire- wator, barack, could excito comment on the Cardinal.
Only two citizens ventitred aplulons, One vouched that His. Eminence had been recaptured by the Hungarians; the other sald be was dead.
Mr Garret G. Akerson, the Charge d'Affaires, rubbed out both
Nepalese border patrols have selzed thousands of progaganda pletures of Mao Tse-tung and American
quickly other Chinese leaders.
These pictures had been dis- rumours. tributed nong the border
people and an underground Own suite
campaign for signatures cup- porting Red China's iron hand in Tibet is Blo being organised.
Pledge
from Refuxcca
Tibet BAY Chinese arms are arriving in big quantities on the borders of Bhulan and Slickim. the Himalayan States which India is pledged to defend.
Talks are to be held within Mr the next 10 days between Nehru and Mr Jigmi Dorli, the Premier of Bhutan.
Youngish, abaven-headed Mr Dorji 1x Crateful for Mr Nehru's alatenent that India will defend his' country,
But X understand that Mr Dori is anxious idʻ-discuss with Mr Nehru Ideas for aid and support for Bhutan from other countries.
Menu(London Experas Service)..
"Cardinal Mindszenty is be- ing very well looked after-lu more senses than one," said Mr Akerson, "And so are we."
He led me to a third-floor window and pointed to a big, black, Russian-made car on the opposite side of the street,
"That's a secret police car. The AVO have 1 parked there day and night and they've got two more round the corner, You might say they are taking very good care of us. Nobody comes in or out of here without the AVO knowing all about it.
tokea "Cardinal Mindszenty half-an-hour's exercise in our courtyard every -evening-and the Secret Pollee know all about that, too..
"Our bullding occupies three niches of the courtyard, but not
nobody mentions
The Cardinal
less solitary confinement, and who now occupies a living room and bedrecon-w5h-bith adie on the legation's third floor.
The
know a few of the strokes a well.
Jould have sold all my razor blades and all my clothes GB-year-old. Cordinal before I had been in the place watches his diet, cwallows an an hour being impressed up- Out on Lake Balaton, some occasional vitamin pill, and 13 or me that the cou-parly - hundred miles south of Duda-
In good health at around 11st. Tib. Of peasant stock, bla de- n.ands are simple-three meals a day, plenty of fruit, ne alco- bol and an occasional cigar.
tomers had to work at least six
weeks before they could afford pest, we raced yachts that would not have disgraced Cowes, decent sult,
drank the local white wine from
One would-be bargainer, a trained civil engineer, showed All meals are taken to blame his wage sheet. It odded up suile from the legatlon cantern to £30 a month, by one of the salive Americans, leave it.
on rols. Hungarian members of
the staff are permitted no con- Life is fun
tact with the Cardinal.
take it of
He is addressed formally as As for the exchange market, Your Eminence. He listen the omelat rate for an English nsidly to the radio, seldom looks C is 64 Hungarian forints, but nt the Legation's TV set, and you can get 80 with no trouble has a daily Intake of news at all, and 100 if you tell the papers and books on religion, money-changer to go jump In politics and philosophy.
the Danube.
Gorman
Ho speaks
fluently, and
har
beon In
Arriving from the West you
a wayside cabine, and listened
to Elvis Presley records.
For dinner back in town, they offered us a cholre of 150 dishes at the
famous Matyas Pince underground restaurant, where three young men courteously and quickly offered us their seats when the head waller told them we were English. Hefty portlans of fish soup, roust veal, and apple pic (I think) cost less than 30s.
At midnight, thousands were dancing to canned muste in the streets.
learned might consider Budapest's wide New flats English during the threats orice lordly avenues to have the a slightly pathelle air of genteel yoars he has
poverty-like a discarded ls- Logation.
tress decking herself out{ In 40-year-old finery,
is day starts at 7 pm. and
New building ore going up all over town, but a 3-roomed Nat costs £2,500 on the never- never--If you can get one.
The shops, nearly all State-
ends around 11 pm. On Sun- But if you have seen Mos- days he conducts Mass for the cow, Warsaw and Prague, us ! Homan Catholle members of the have, then you will know that owned, are well locked--with American stoff.
"Every Inch man and our guest," sald Mr Akerson.
The spivs
these Hungarians have a much shoddy goods. Creater capacity for enjoying
Russians? I saw truckloads life than most of the Iron Cur-
the flower-decked of them in Itin comrades,
country town of Szekesfehevar, any in but I failed to spot Budapest, Then I got a recogn!- St
tion tip as we sal watching the re- dancing on the famous Mar- Day garet land.
of
They came out in their thousands for fun an the fourth. You do not have to Fasst
Got any razor Stephen's
Day--now guess very hard about who is blades, any old suite, any Eng-
Constitution Inamed looking down from that little lish money? Ideologically,
always thought, black-market and heralded by yards
"Look for big bosoms on the of rod women and baggy trousers on manoeuvrin was monopoly bunting and a rash Mr Akerson then gave me of us
Imperiallat stars plastered in front of the men." said my companion. an outline of the dully le of wannasgers, but it stems that
yellow After that, it was easy, jam-packed the man who has spent the last some of the boys from the the
democratic republic frams, 10 years of his life in more or people's.
window across the way."
BALMORAL
Western
(London Express Service),
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Lokeʊn Exprezt Service