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WHERE WILL NASSER
THAT King Hussein
was not killed the other day was more luck; that he will continue to be lucky is uncertain. The fate of the Shah of Persia and Kassem of Iraq also hangs in the balance.
םספטא
Those three lives stanki olmovi alone between
conflagration in
And
Middle East.
the
If the King of Jordan is killed the Isruells will almost certain- ly murch down to the banks of the Jordan, and if the Shah or Kassem falls there will almost certainly be Communist revolu tions which would undurmine our position in Kuwait, Bahrein, the whole Trucial Coast, and threaten or oil suppiles.
And still from Calro there cones a stream of abuse exelt- ing violent ends to these re- gimes.
Nasser is playing his tradi- tional gami. The picture of him so often presented in the West 01 U reasonable head of a balanced regime is impossible to accept,
1
The strength
had not
USE THIS
EXPLOSIVE
ALLIANCE?
BY LORD LAMBTON, M.P. ·
The base there Is our lant in the Middle East and is respon- sible for the two thousand-mile rust fine from Kuwait.
Nor is there an alternative, Aden's position is singularly vintrable, for out of its work- ing population of 168,000, over one-quarter come and go from the neighbouring Uniled Arab Republic state of the Yemen,
Its ruler, tha Iman, has so far restrainer Eдyptian Influence Up w months ago sut he is old and riddled with however, his hysterical threats disease and may well be follow-
the importance that
ed by a wild -Egyptian helt they have today, for however in which case the manufacture loudly he might sliput he simply of an incident could easily lead had not the strength to wage a full seate military operation.
But things have changed But certainly as dangerous is lately and Nassers in a far the position in Somalla where stronger position than he bus our precipitate withdrawal has ever been before,
At Alexandria a base and supplies have been built up by the Iron Curtain countries that could enable him to Wago large-scale war.
Nasser, unsbje to Ket .11 the reutl'y he needed Trom the West has got
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Russia and her satellites, and the price that he has had to pay for it has been the acceptance of technicians and military old, So when the use and the armaments are used →→→ net ir they are not going to be ed I would like to kit what they are for it will be in as prea where boll have ambitions,
Not Israel
The point of Interest is where this will be, The obvious Drawer, Israel, is probably wrong The risks of a spread- Ing wor are too great,
intervention in Iraq Diret and Persia is also unlikely.
then,
There zenzains, Arabian pentasila and the Horn of Africa and in both of thuse Russian and Egypilan Interests
ble hands-o Cils! our own extreme discomfiture. The position of Aden has jong been made qui as an attrout. tu -Arabian nationalisan and . has been a particular target for Coiro radio, but to us it is vital.
to frontier war,
left
0 vacuum of unsettled problems.
if frontier war breaks out with Ethioula it will be only too easy for Nasser to proclaim him- self champion of a brother Moslem state and rush in with whit amounts to Russing old, and so the Communist will gain a foothold in East Afrien.
Alt this, however, is guess- work. All that remains certain is that the materials mounting up in Alexandria are for use somewhere.
Perhaps the most frightening thing of all is that as the danger 6) Conventional warfore abroad increases, so we reduce our own conventional forces and at the same time are encouraged to believe that things have never been so good
IRAQ
JORDAN
Alexandria
.0
KUWAIT
500
MILES
PERSIA
EGYPT
SAUDI ARABIA
TRUCIAL
OMAN'~¿
MUSCAT
& OMAN
SUDAN
YEMEN
ADEN PROT.
ARABIAN SEA
GULF OF ADEN
ETHIOPIA
UGANDA KENYA
SOMALIA
London Zapten Service
RUSSIAN SAYS THAT
'SEAS
THE
ARE ADVANCING”
oceans are gradually swallowing up the land and the Arctic basin has a hole in it. These are the latest findings by international scientists. The first about the advance of the seas is by Professor Vladimir Belousov, Russian vice-president of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
And it is kely to be dis- puted by experts who believe that the reverze is happening.
The Aretic basin "hole" is Bie unanimous verdict of Britain, Norway, Germany, Russia and Iceland.
These nations
sen! ships. D and uut how some very chilly water creeps out blong The bed of the Aentic. The Aretle busin
has an underwater rim, which
The World of Science
by Peter Fairley
should hold in the cold currents, gradient, or a vertical object a pinhead, is being used by
But between leeland and the foot high. The Navy is using it British surgeons, to locata Faroes se selontists found to observe the sea bed to collect gall-stones, or stones in the specimens, and to assemble This undoubtedly has some equipment where a man could kidneys. effect on our weather, and Arctic noi withstand the pressure,
wide crack.
water has been found to contai
many minerals which fertise
good fishing grounds. Follow PINHEAD ‘MIKE'
the current and the st.
RUM ROBOT
þUM — Remoto Under-
Rotor manipulator, the
U.S. Navy's robot-in cur- rontly crawling along sea bed of the Pacific.
the
It is an 11-ton tracked vehicle with TV "eyes" that can see 30ft.
underwater. echo-sounder to "sense" objects up to 40 yards ahead, and a huge, stainless steel arm. Two-prong hand
The arm has a two-pronged "band"
that opens and eloces, a wrist that rotator, an elbow that pivots, and a shoulder that does anything, any way.
Two eight horse-power motora sond it into action at the end of
a Ave-mile long control cable.
On command from share or ship, it will climb a one-in-two
TINY "microphone," A
hardly biggor thon 0
THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1960, -
The
he "mike" is a crystal, fitted! lo the end of a long, thin probe, and linked to a small amplifier. When it 1ouches stone, a Aignal is given in the surgeon's trendphone.
-London Express Service).
Just Fancy Thef
ELEGATES to a bee-keeping convention were being
Down the thousands of bees on show in Leicester shire's Rutland Hail by Mr Charles Dooming when he was stung by a wnap.
PROBLEM: How did a fra start in the roof of a coltage at Kolsale, near Saxmundham, Suffolk, when no room fires had been lit and there was no electricity to caqua a short circuit?
SOLUTION' (by fire exports): A sparrow pleked
up a burning olgarette ond and carried. If to its most,
The nest flared up and set fire to a beam.
**(London Express Sérvios).
POODLE PARLOUR PANIC BY JAK
WELL, IF IT EMBARRASSES YOU THAT MUCH WE'LL TAKE A CAB HOME
Silent war in
Saigon.
SOUTH Vietnama small but savage war is going on in the southern marshes of South Vietnam.
It is a war that is fought with knives, a strange assortment of small firearms, booby traps and dummy rifles.
It is a war fought against an enemy who remains largely unseen and avoids engagements against regular troops.
No one ventures to say when a dual victory will be achieved.
Communist guerillas
ure the enemy: and the Vietnamese government has sent ils as farge as regiments into some of the most difficult terrain in this Southeast Aslan republic in an effort to weed them out,
Combat operations go on in swamps, Jungler and rice pad- dies that make trucks. Lariks and artillery virtually useless.
MISERABLE
the south has been largely car- ried on by units of local militia organised within each village or by provincial troops called civil guards.
Town & Country
Vietnam
This is the first of three dispatches by United Press
International Saigon Bureau Manager Arthur J. Dommen on the little-known battle by South Vietnam against
Communist guerillas. Dommen accompanied a Vietnamese
unit on a combat operation against the guerillas to gather information for the series.
of the
slow, with the
party averaging about one mile
But as of the beginning of this year, the government of Presi- The evacuated thatched huts and is so unhealthful that not through knee-deep water along dent Ngo Dinh Dlem has in- of the
were burned
even the French army attempted the bank of a straight east-west peasants and stocks of rice in the zone to pencirate 11. creasingly engaged regular army
canc), while a' string of wooden troops, and even fighter aircraft confiscated or destroyed.
sampans carrying food, ammuni Now it has become the closest lion and medical supplies fol- in an effort to wipe out the Such a zone is the U Minh Ha Communist elements that spread swampland, of the country's thing in Vietnam to a lerritorial owed the advancing troops,
the Com- propaganda and lerrorise the southernmost province, where a demain claimed by pensants who form the majority regiment
Progress was Vietnamese munist cadres who were left be- of the 13.5 million inhabitants army and a battalion of crack hind following the partition of
at the 1951 Geneva per hour. of this country.
American-trained marines have Vietnam The predominant
just completed a "mopping up conference.
At times the troops were feature of
Some areas, known to be re- operation. muny of these areas Is the driving fuger and supply points for the
Operational plans drawn up at forced to wade through water monsoon rain that sweeps across Communists, have been evacuat-
A HAVEN
the command post in the provin- up to their necks, holding their the flat
and cial capital of Camau provided rifles
submachine land and makes life ad by the peasant population on miserable for soldiers and arders of the
The U Minh Ha is an Inhos for a five-day drive from the above their heads. guerilios alike.
government and pitable region of forest and eastern edge. of the swamp to declared "war zones."." *Thle is
Rain sometimes eut visibility not
for half the the coast of the Gulf of Thailand a conventional
swamp, drenched
to practically zero. war," a lieutenant colonel In In such zones, anyone caught year by torrential rains and by a battalion of marines with charge of a large scale operation moving by the army is presumed affording sweet water during some ortillery support from Axed told this correspondeni. "Il is lo be a Communist agent, called the long dry season in only one positions along the rather like the war the French here, Viet Cong (Communist sup- or two locations.
It has been a plier or sympathiser), and is are, ghting in Algeria."
insurgents Up till recently, the struggle liable to be shot with no ques-"
since the beginning The drive was conducted by a
weapons of the bloody Indo-China war, single column of marines wading against Communist insurgents in tions asked.
Just a minute, dear. Let me carry you over the
threshold."
edge.
haven for
SCHOOL
OF
CHIROPODY
I'm Me." Jones, your oem posisjanie
pleased to inées, you!
swamp's
Boldier,
Troops are supplied with all the gear of the modern foot
They have a good stock of Arst ald equipment and their standard
are the
American M-I ride and the Browning Automatic Ride. They use portable radios to keep in touch with other units.
Morale of the troops appeared good from the start of the #oak- Ing, tiring trek, to the very quid. Each day's march usually meas made to the tune of much good- natured joking in Vietnamese. Only the officere, who bave hud training under the V.R. Marines at Quantico, Va., specić good English.
MORALI
Much of the credit for the good morale of the troops must go to the young 'officers Ilke 34- year-old Capt. Tran Van Nhus who commanded the battalion on this operation.
He has a wife and children In Salgon and hopes to go back to the United States for a second tour of instruction,
"Our army doesn't yet have a large corps of suntor officers," ha
explained in response to a ques«
tion about the youth of the can- manding offers involved in the "mopping up" operation.
Few officers in the Vietnámaso army rose above the rank of major during the years. " Of French colonial rule here.
The U. Minh Ha swamp aflórá- cd to firm ground in all its miles af barren waste.
So at nightfall when it, bis- come dangerous to progr@sa" KUE= ther along the canal, a corp knits, pliched on a soggy, hillock with the troops Joining their danchos to make tents, But by morning the soggy hillock was entirely
Water was everynchors. 1TER driest place to be had', maiņu). well-balled-out simpan.
TOMORROW.
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