THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1960.
'Chinese atom bomb
by 1965 means a new strategy
Military Correspondent TOM POCOCK
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CHINA will have the atomic bomb by 1965. Intelligence agencies have, until very recently, seemed certain that unless Russia reversed its policy and gaye China nuclear weapons the Chinese would not have the atomic bomb until 1970.
The
revised forecast, com- bined with diplomais reports that China will risk a war in the Far East when she feels capable
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matching her opponents' nuclear strength, has led
rethinking of British strategy.
to a
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When Mr Harold Watkinson, the Defence Minister, returns from the United States he will
to decide: Should have massive British base at Singa- pore be moved to Australia?
If Mr. Watkinson does not agree to the move on grounds of expense he knows that his successors will have to.
PERTH?
Already Perth. in Western Australia, and its port. Fre- mantle, have been chosen as the only possible major Common- wealth base in the. Eastern Hemisphere.
Dispersed sites for head- quarters, barracks, airfields and stockpiles of ammunition. fuel and stures outside Perth have already been considered.
The Royal Australian Navy has surveyed a possible Fleet anchor- age near Fremantle.
The airfield at Darwin, in Northern Australia. is being ex- panded 10 a major air base.
The inevitability of this strate gic switch is based uponл reassessment of the military value of Singapore.
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The Chinese dominated Government of the island has announced that it is dedicated to the ejection of the British base.
As soon as alternative employ- ment can be found for the 45,000 Singaporeans now employed by
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PERTH
Chathum dockyard and four air bases would be hopelessly vul- nerable in total war.
In any foreseeable limited war
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AUSTRALIA
Already a "brigade training area" is being established in
North Bornen.
in the Far East, China would RAF LINK
This defence system would be
Inevitably be involved and with more than a million Chinese
frst their
loyalty to thei: fatherland in Singapore, the linked by RAF Transport Com- base would be untenable.
The new British strategy for the Eastern Hemisphere will be based upon small, scattered forward bases.
These will have tu fulfil only three requirements: a stockpile, a runway and an anchorage,
The prototype base is the tiny island of Gan. midway between the Services and a trade link Aden and Singapore in the can be established with Malaya Indian Ocean. or Indonesia to replace the fourth of Singapore's revenue now supplied by the British forces, the base will be ejected.
Chinese politicians say publicly that this will happen in five io 10 years' time.
OPEN TARGET
Although British presence in Singapore is thought to have "stabilising effect" in South- East Asia, its military value is now negligible.
Defence planners have already carmarked other potential bases -mast of them islands.
mand.
Already the necessary airplanes are in service.
One squadron of Britannias
could shift a brigade group from Perth to Singapore in three days,
During the next few years the Comet 2s and Britannias will be reinforced and finally replaced by Comet 45 and Britannica. By 1965 the long-range jet VC10 transport should be in service.
At present it is the high cost of setting up a base in Australia that is the major obstacle delay- ing the plan.
---(London Express Service),;
Just Fancy That !
THE demonstration that police dog handler Kenneth Rollin gave
at a Clifton, Nottingham, fete didn't go quite as it had been planned to go.
His dog pulled him to the ground and Police Constable Rollin
An island the size of the Isle fell on a box of matches in his pocket. They exploded and 2 of Wight containing the equiva- | crowd of 3,500 saw an impromptu display of fire-fighting by police lents of Aldershot, Southampton,' officers. No one was hurt.
They've got so
THEM BACK!
"THRIFT SEASON FOR
S.S.MEN
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ENCHANTING JAPAN
WELCOMES
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NEW YORK NEWELETTER
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-London Express Beroles).
by John Lambert
next silken At 66, Thurber
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clue
THE next time a silk cushion or any other material covered with silk
is found at the scene of ⚫ murder or other major crime, the Fingerprint De-f
Scotland partment of
Yard will put a new pro- cess to an "operational fest."*
Tests are going on in the laboratories at the Yard
following a discovery by Swedish police investigat- ing a murder.
changes his mind
about women
New York,
JAMES THURBER, one of the few men who ever laughed
at women and got away with it, is the most toasted cele- brity on Broadway today. He is also the most brave.
THURBER-He cannot see the tributes,
shouldn't have let her live," he Elizabeth Taylor and Natalie said with a gentle curl to his Wood came in," she explained
"They looked at my figure
lp.
Until the actors' strike, neon signs above a Broadway theatre signalled the smash-hit success of The Thurber Carni- val, a revue adapted from some of his funniest stories. Near by, long queues outside a cinema show that The Battle of The Swedish police were the Sexes, a British film asked for details of an version of one of his experiment they made
:
Fingerprints
in developing photographs stories, is set for a long of fingerprints on a blood-run. stained silk cushion.
Mr But
cannot Thurber see these tributes to his Lalents. He is blind. Yel, at
They discovered that the 66, his sense of humour is s use of acetone instead of sharp as ever. and his urge ether enabled the de-to make people laugh and volòpment ingredients to understand each other is even
stronger. be better absorbed by the silk material,
The
fingerprints became visible for five minutes. -London Express Service).
SABRINA
"I'm not instant.".
he is liable to drop cigarette ash He is a tall vigorous-looking on his suit when he gets enthu- about a conversation, man with a shock of white hair, slastic a deep, gentle voice, and a face which is often. that still looks surprised at the world.
Seeing him acrces a room the only sign of his blindness is that
Nowadays he can hardly draw. the parade of appressive women men who made and agrived sex seem such a fimmy, fiendish. subject. But be can still see
and smiggered. I was quite He agreed that in his writings upset but I the "ght II they want
he has never suggested that o
man should use soft tacties with to be vulgar, ant's their look- a woman. Nothing softer than a out, so I just swept out, club over the head, that is.
"And Jayne Mansfeld just refuses to recognise that I So I was surprised when he exis!" she lamented. "Hare added: "In my recent writings you met her?" I asked. "Oh, I've come to the conclusion that yes," said Sabrins, "face to
the one the female Is
that's
face," going to save our species. The female is the truly creative member of our species and she. by God, doesn't intend to br exterminated."
that Sabrina It also seemed was not over impressed with the attentions of American men: "I mean they can be ever so kind” "Beakles which." be added she admitted, "but I suppose in mischieviously. "no male can London a girl gets used to men beat a female in the long run who are a bit more sophisticated. because they have it over us in shear, damn kongevity,"
Late riser
It's all right having things like instant coffee and instant din ners...but, well, really. I'm Just not an instant girl I suppose. H takes me time to become fond of unybody, like."
Four cups of tea kaber Sabrine
them in his mind's eye. And he afternoon when I tools Sabrina was reflecting on her life so far.
It was three o'clock in the
is still writing about them.
to breakfast. She explained
"I can't live without writing," her late rising by saying that a A tiny line of concentration
be said. "My wife, Helen, can
tell when I'm writing at a party. 'Stop writing she'll' say, 'people want to talk to you.
His work
girl had to get around lot to appeared in the white stickers moke may impact in New York, of her brow as she said "One and it was all very tiring. of the newspapers in London is writing my life story. It's a bit So far the impact of the busty, funny, really because I don't British blonde has been confined feel that I've even started to to her appearances in the night live yet! chubs, though not as en enter tainer.
Part of the work he is doing Even the sensation-scared at the moment is a clage celebrities are apt to lift an adaptation of his current eyebrow blank-faced but best-seller The Years With Ross, billowing Sabrina tip-tupe e biography of the former wild- through the tables. tempered editor of The New Yorker
The best
"When I was rehearsing for.a
"Y'know, one of the nice things about America is that they encourage you to do your Sabrina, herself, gave a best here, I mean they remarkable explanation for this, work on the Httle bit of talent He is also writing a entirical "I think they are startled be- you might have. novel about fe in a small cause I try to be a lady-like American town in this space ego blonde,” she said, modestly which savage.
When we met. Mr Thurber had just sat through a showing of. The Battle of the Sexes, "I like it from what I heard," he mid, "but Alms are about 70
promises to be rather dipping her long, false eye
Lashes.
So kind
show at the Tropicana in Miami
I apologised to the producer when something went wrong in a song. I know I sing flat, 1 said. No, you don't when you relax, he said.
per cent visual so I missed 70. impressing the need for decorum said.
Indeed, the seemed inpent on
per cent of it."
"That's such a difference to London where everybody just
She has no talent: s
on some other British blondes It may
interest the film's who have been over here, "After that's that. I mean I just used British producers to hear that all," she murmured, dunking to stand on the stage, as the star he deplored an allen touch of her teabag delicately despite who had no talent, shaking sentiment that they added.
in the Bim the meek
bookkeeper shows/marey the women clilcianer expert
about
all their brashness and all that with nerves and thinking "Oh. Î The pray thing that Americans hope I don't go flat logiant. eavy most is a touch of refine- "And I had to sleep 10 hours a night to keep the little bit of voice. I did have,
"And being thrown into a swimming pool, the way Diane
"Well I think I'm a lot better friendly Pore was, is no way to imerens
now because people have ww them. I mean it's got pice, like og to The lack of refinement among encouraged me to be better. But
don't think 111 go home unti some American stars has also apparent distraend her. "TEN" Deople there stop sing Tana in the powder altem of a just a joke. If patien the Clolgy the other night when