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THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1946.
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"Little - Grit-in-the-Evo kap heap dam dificult to put fire out."
PALACE
AS
HQ
by
Peter Lovegrove
N imposing Bourbon palace
windows and 56 stairways, an opera house and a chapel, which covers an area of 5,000 square feet and took 20 years to build, was the focal point of the Allied
Britain tries out the GRATITUDE
AIRPORT OF THE
FUTURE
THE airport of the future is
Talready working in Britain
but it may never be used for passenger aircraft. There, at a glance, the controller can see the position of every aircraft within 25 miles. And ho can land them safely in any wen- ther,
It is the Ministry of Supply ex- perimental alalloh at Farnborough, Hants.
There are radar and radio services which will guide an airliner through- out its journey-from touch down,
take-off to
All the things the airport of the
futuristic white control tower,
Recently its wonders were shown to representatives of the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organi-
The contral tower of the future will be like this.
..
Short-range positions and emer.
Yency
bild landings by the new Airfeld Control Redar.
This gives the position of every aircraft wkhin 25 miles and mini- mises the risk of collision in bad weather.
Blind approach by standard beam approach and the new SCS
51 methods, which gives a narrow beam
OF INDIA TO FRANCE
By SYDNEY REDWOOD
"This tablet commemorates the; graillude of India to the cillsens of Elobon and Chenebler for the help they gave to Indian Prisoners-of- War who had escaped · from › the cuemy in 1944/45 during the Ger- man occupation of France.
"India mourns' the gallant sons of these two villages who
gavo their lives in the common cause”'.
Thus runs the inscription' on the plaque incorporated in the memorial unveiled recently at Etobon In the
In line with the 2400 yards runway, Haute-Saonl Department of France. and the correct angle of descenta memorial which along with n joint library for the two mentioned right down to the ground.
villages was provided out of money raised in India.
VERY High Frequency radio tele. phone services are available for haming, positions, controlled descent in bad weather, and information of all kinds.
One of the control officers, Flight Lleutenant Smith, who was a pilot In the RFC in the 1014-10 war and was in the RAF in the last, said to
me:
"The VHF position service is n great success. Last week we were in contact with an airplane at 15,000
magnet on the end, which can bet. all the way to Malta." envitched on or off watch the screen
Radio range, a long-range naviga-
latest aircraft position on
can crews, is also available.
maps.
The "story" goes back to May 1944 when there was o heavy air, tåld on
600
to
Epinal. In the casuing confusion a large number of Indian soldiers escaped from a German POW camp into the surrounding forests. About
were able to cross over
Swit- zerland, but unfortunately sume- where between 150 and 200 prisoner were unable make good their escape and were forced back, into the woods where, tired, hungry, health, and flagging in
of
were picked up in batch, Fif
weak they Aver
and sixes and given shelter, succour and help by the villagers of Lisbon and Chenebler. Their spirita being revived, the Indians formed them selves into groups and constructed rough log shelters in the woods where. they remained hidden, some of them for as long as six months, until they
of French and United States troops from the couch,
war effort in the Mediterranean./sation. They are now considering it and move pointed metal chips to the tion system widely used by Ameri-1 were finally liberated by the arrival
This is the famous palace of Caserta, in Southern Italy, which
U.S. Forces occupied by October 1913, and has been Allled hands ever since.
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as the standurd airfield for all the $2 countries which are members.
The top of the control tower is a curved glass window like the non-reflecting windows tried In prewar shop windows.
the big
THE information the controlier sees upstairs is seldom more than ave seconds old.
A "totalisator board" at the other
All the radar and radio services have been planned so that future air- craft will need to carry only the Nearly all the minimum of sets. equipment is on the ground.
O
During the past 38 months, this magnificent edifice, which has seen
A1 so much pageantry and drama in Its 175
years of existence, as witnessed fresh and colourful pages A vast of history being written. host of Allied war chiefs, heads of state and diplomats have lived or been its
brief guests. senior headquarters in the Central
Force Mediterraneau
except been housed there at one Army has been
another.
Caserta From time Ο went the orders for the campaigns in
parent chemical which keeps the also marked up there. Central and Northern Italy, landings in Southern France the liberation of Greece, naval the In operations
at and air blows Central Europe.
It gives a clear view of the whole glance the names, destinations and
side of the "ups." roam shows at a A NEW taiking, rotating beacon is already working which gives the
nirport now.
full details of all Farnborough air-pilots courses to fly to reach Farn-.
borough by using a record ke the craft in the air.
time clock.
Ath
When first I was tried the scien- lists found rain smudged the view:
it with so they painted
a trans-
the and
rain away.
Mediterranean,
the enemy In
not
certain
VISIT FROM THE KING KING George VI visited it in July
1044. Bearded Greek resis tance leaders who were smuggled out of their homeland signed an
which was agreement there long honoured. Marshal Tito paid two visits, and caused a amount of consternation by turning up at an official banquet with bodyguard of tommy gunners, a bloodhound and an armed woman secretary. The Greek Government- In-Exile called there on its way from Egypt 10 Athens. French slates- millary leaders, Dominion
Russian, men. Chinese general, Brazilian, Polish senior officers- they all came to Caserta,
C-i-C.SUZ.
Supreme
the
to
General)
And lastly and most fittingly, on April 29, 1945, two downcast men In civilian clothes were brought in the great secrecy to sign away
best part of surrender of the million men on behalf of the German
Forces and
SS Troops. Clark's General
5th U.S. Army was the first senior formation occupy the palace, but as the cant- palyn
progressed towards Rome, Field Marshal (then Alexander's Allled Armies Italy HQ took over the lease for D few months. After the liberation of the Italian capital, Alexander's staff moved up the Applan Way, and the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean transferred his Allied Algiers to Caserta Force HQ from in
1944. With AFHQ, July
team Anglo-American Integrated created by General Elsenhower In North Africa, came C-in-C Medi- terranean Naval forces and his staff, HQ MAAF, the British Resident Minister (with Cabinet rank), the U.S. Political Adviser, and UNRRA .HQ.
an
Caseria was ideally suited for s now task. It stands at the foot of some low-lying hills, 21 milles inland from Naples; three hours by road
close from
to three three hours flying from
aerodrome;
Malta, four Crom Athens and
Alglers,
And it could nosorb is vast army of strategists, diplomats and pen-pushers without aggravating the already difficult housing situation of the Italian population.
VERSAILLES OF NAPLES
I had been called the
an
Versalties
Hour by hour weather reports are
The radio services available in- clude:
Long-range positions by radar de- tectors furinerly used for night
This is intended to overcome the pressure on homing stations in the future. The pilot listens to coursen spoken by a man and chooses the I loudest.
these
During his time some of
who were in better health Indians washed to rejoin their units and again the gallant Frenchmen came to theft umstance, providing appropriate dis- guises and, at the risk of their own lives, escorting them to the Swiss frontier. Others joined the Maquis
of their French comrades-in-arms,
fought die Invaders by the sido
The Iceding of the men who re- muined presented a difficult task and was solved by being undertaken on in a communal basis by each family.
Inadvisable rotation and, as it was for the Indians to be seen in the vil lage, the food was corried into the Woods each day by a member of the It is accurate enough to, bring him family designated in all weathers and to Farnborough in any weather. No oiten at night with the pre- equipment in the aircraft is needed sent danger of arrest by the German
NSIDE the tower sit the 'controller (ghter interceptions, up to about 100 beyond the normal VHF radio tele- patrols, villagers in possession of
and
assistants-al his
desks miles. covered with radar, radio and light switches on a balcony from which they look on one side at the airfield and on the other at two big maps, down below In the "ops" room. The maps are really magnifications of the radar screens,
One shown the south of Britain. the other a, 25-mile radius of Farn- borough.
When the radar and radio opera- tors obtain positions from aircraft they are immediately marked on third transparent maps by an operator who turns knobs which switch thin shafts of light on the
map.
Where the beams cross marks the exact position of the aircraft, WAAF operators with croupier's stick with
Dn
long electric
According To
phone.
Radar map of S.E. England in the now "ops room" at Farnborough.
Culbertson
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
wireless sets placed their sets at the disposal of the prisoners in the obtain evenings to enable them to news of the progress of the war and world news in general. Others gave up their meagre tobacco rations, whilst quite a few of the womenfolk knitted
woollen garments for those who suffered from the cold weather at the approach of autumn, the vil
20 altitude of 1,700 being Jago feet above sea level.....
at an
German suspicions could not be allagetner aliayed, and wac also
became known to them that the vil lagr's were centres of resistance and that many of the men had joined the F.F.I., they exteled a terrible re- venge. More than 20
per cent male
ed or
cent of the
murder for slave labour,
Pourine were either:
In-
cluding 30 young men who were shot In cold blood. It was this gallant band of heroes to which India was paying homage in the memorial and gift formally dedicated by Sir Samuel Rungan adhan. the Indian High Com- missioner.
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1+ A survey of the situation con- owed thanks to the enemy for doing firmed South's feurs that West's something for him that he could not | double of four hearts must have been do for himself.
based on two prospective tricks in that suit, since it was perfectly ob- East, dealer.
vious that he could not have any outside strength-Enst needed both diamond honours for his orginal bid. This made the contract look CX- tremely doubtful, but South saw one hope and went out for it.
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of Naples, and has everything
palace. can 18th-century expected to contain except comfort. It was bullt by
Bourbon
East's 'correct opening bid was the lies, partly one diamond, not, one spade, dynasty of the Two because they were jealous of the West's raise, though intended as magnificence of the French branch
mere shutout, was still pretty weak. of the faintly and also because they East led his fourth-highest spade and declarer was in with the blank considered their Naples residence too close to the sea to be comfortablo in those insecure days. The legend goes that when the architect reported
the job that
King was done, Ferdinand of the Big Nose naked him:-Would you be able to build a similor palace?! On being nastured. that he could, the King. immediately ordered his eyes to be put out.
It was during the reign of the Bla Nose that Nelson and Lady William) Hamilton (as well na Sir were received there; other figures of history connected with Caserta are Maria Theresa of Austria, Napoleon's two puppet kings, a succession of particularly sanguinary monarchs, nnil Pope Pius IX. W With the last Bourbon dethroned in 1860, 11 be- came a muscun, though Mussolini established his Air Forco Academy there between the two world ward. It was never occupied by the Nazis, (Continued "on-Page 3)
At the second trick he led a diamond. East took the Jack with the king and, as declarer had hoped, returned a spare. South ruffed and ted his last diamond. Again East returned a spade-"pumping". The South was not reluctant declarer. about ruling; indeed, he then led to the club king and ruffed · dummy's last spade on his own neenuat,
Now, reduced to the ace-king-len of trumps and three clubs, declarer laid down the trump ace, then ran his clubs. When the fourth club West had to ruff--and it WILI
played didn't matter whether he ruffed low or high! If he ruffed low, dummy. would over-ruff with the heart eight: on West's actual play, ruffing, with the jack, he then had to return a trump from the queen-seven úp lo declarer's Ring-tén.
East had led too many spades!
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