GEORGE WALKS INTO SPY TROUBLE
Ankara.
A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD) merchant seaman
from Portsmouth has been thrown into an Ankara prison-"confused and bewildered," says his Turkish lawyer.
Turks at Iskenderon are sur- attikkale dopied
George Mulihews, from the
North Britain, priced at the ship
after he went by nerestel
sicenderun in
cargo www nstore 41 Southern Turkey.
He went for a walk in the hill, strayed into a military area where radar equipment located, and
arrested t bayonet point en suspicion spying.
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Surprised
the wary authorities. They say that previously people who have wandered into the prohibited aren by mistnite have heen dealt with leniently.
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Matthews speaks no Turkialı his fellow prisoners speak Britons In English, but Ankara hove sent him choco- late, elgarettes and a change of clothing. Mr Bedri Barol, his "He is British consular oMelal Turisish lawyer, says persunded the Turkish authort-mfortable, but he is in prison,
Matthews in and that's not pleasant." ties to transfer
The embassy, while not wish- Ankara.
with Turkish be was charged with ing to interfere There
for justice, is endeavouring to speed "intentionally entering a bidden military 2011." Ho the trial. pleailed not guilty and the Irit was adjourned until later month,
s
That may be difficult. Such enses sonelimer last for months
or even years.
THE_CHINA_MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1961.
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THE WORD THAT SAVED THE RAF
-MOBILITY
XACTLY when or where the final decision was taken they
The Gloster Jave. E may never be told. But locked away in a secret file in the
lin ..
like other
jet fighters a versatile weapon. In regions where war threatens the front - fine squad rons of the RAF have plenty of opportunities for "Olde Ty
Flying.
me
Cabinet Office are the records of a historic decision, the full Importance of which will not be known for 10 to 20 years. This was the decision that saved the Royal Air Force. In 1957, when Mr Duncan Sandys was Defence Minister, it had been decided that machines could now replace men as the means of executing the primary task of the RAF; the delivery of re- taliatory nuclear weapons,
The V-bombers, which were designed for this task, would, as soon as possible, be replaced by Blue Streak 'rockets. Also, the manned aircraft of Fighter Command would be re- placed by ground-to-air missiles, and there was another strong political move to transfer Coastal Command to the Royal Navy, The RAF would, however, he allowed to keep Trans- port Command, although the Army was clamouring to take over the tactical troop-carrying squadrons.
Ing force British
strategy de- Whether or not they are Decision reversed pends as it once depended upon ermed with the stand-of bomb troop convoya steaming through which will be their weapon until Skybolt arrives, the secret of This decision has been the Suez Canal,
their strength is mobility. At the men who I have often flown with rsi blink of warning of possiblo reversed. The visualisad Britain's striking Transport Command and the war from Intelligence and no the exeltement never fades. There war has yet begun without some power concentrated in
were lights to the Middle East
V-bombers will steel and concrete firing its when Cyprus and the Lebanon vanish, from their bases, some of the Blue Streak were crists demanded urgent rein with hydrogen bombs in their
the forcements. The troops had defeated in debato by
bellies, others packed with elec- same argument that William breakfast on a damp pirfeld in I had uned two centuries Wiltshire and lunch in hot tents beneath the Jagged Kyrenin before: mobility.
hills.
Nuclear retaliation should not only be launched from the Bri tish Isles. The threat must come from the Atlantic. from the Mediterranean and Africa, from the Indian Ocean and the Arelle, There were two possible ways of achieving this. One was to mount the missiles in atomic to submarines. The other was hang them under the wings of a V-bomber.
Mr Harold Watkinson, the De- fence Minister, has chosen the latter method and in 1984 the Art Skybolt misalles are due to be slung beneath Vulcans of Bomber Command.
more
Navy's planes
warning-the
tranle apparatus to jam enemy endar and confuse the guidance syclems of any known type of
ti-aircraft misslio,
In two and fours they will spread out to nearly 100 dis- persal airfields-about 40 of Then there were flights from them in the British Isles and England to Singapore with lunch wait for the Four-Minute Warn- in Libya, dinner in Aden and an ing. early breakfast on the carat atoll of Gan in the middle of fan Indian Ocean on the way.
Just os the Army reline an Transport Command, sa Coastal
First away
The last time Mr Harold
Command is essential to the Watkinson watched V-bombers Navy. The huge, four-engined rehearse their reaction to this Shackletons will spend routine waming the first Vulcan. was patrols of nearly 24 hours in the airborne In 90 seconds.
tracking submarines, air, shadowing surface ships or para- chuting supplies and lifeboats to survivors of wrecks.
If you should visit the offica of a squadron, station or group commander in the V-forco you will notice hanging behind the An idea of the RAF's import- door a sliver ying-helract, Navy can be oxygen mask and slate-blud
Later will come the remark- ahic TSR2 bomber, designed to fly at true-top height and launch
In lesio Infinitely sophisticated than Skybolt. And ance to the after that will come a weapon gathered from the fact that one overalls. which in today no more than Victor bomber can take radar
of the entire The serious, rather thought- cientists' doodles on scrap photographs naper which is Inter burned to ashes by security men
Mediterranean. from a height of ful man behind the desk leads 10 miles in a single sortie from East Anglia.
The corps d'elite of the RAF is the V-teres All that my Londoners will see of this is, on
is men st personally 05 ad- tek end generals onco.. led heir fleets und armies.
And it in icely that ho will my, it asked about the future of
The life-span of vapons is short there days. The jet fighter lord of the skies for 13 years has become a launching plat. form for air-to-air missiles, But a clear day, the thin white the RAF that a young man thread of a contrail being drawn winning his wings in 1901 has a across the day.
the fighter the Lightning, the Hunter or the Javellis, like The V-bomber, a versatile wea- pon.
Leaflets
In Imitert wars (ilke Korca),
in guerrilla campaigns Oike Maya) and in regless whe wars threaten (like South. East. Aria today) The front- Ime squadrons of the RAF have plenty of opportunities for what they like to call "olde tym dying."
Lately, for example, a single Bighter
tha squadren WAI culy Jaw-keeping force over vast tracts of Southern Arabia, so wild and rugged that they could not be penetrated by soldiers or police.
Agents from the Yemen with Communist support were stirring up trouble among the tribes in the mountains north of Aden and sending them armas. Raiders from
villages would descend to snipe at police posts and ambush convoys and cara-
VERS,
الله
The reply was simple and effective. The offending village would be showered with lenfiets by the RAF telling them that unless a fine were paid by a cer tnt date, a particular house in that village would at a precise time on the following day be de~ molished,
Rockets
This, the tribesmen erim in know, would indeed happen,
Two pairs of jat fighters wena' appear over the mountalus and with rockein deftly demolish the condemned house,
very good chance of doing the rame thing in 1971 and, while But the glossy white monstern nebody can look co for ahead
of the V-force are becoming with accuracy, quite possibly in Increasingly familar to travel- 1981.
Jers, twas or feurs they may
be met on airfields in Canada, The future is, after all, in the Cyprus, Nigeria or Singapore, air.
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