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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1948.
"The dishonesty of it, Spike! One set of books for himself,
one set for the shareholders, and one for the income tax people!"
THE NEW GURKHA ARMY
By Captain G. J. Paddock
Army
16th/5th Lancers.
com-
Ho commanded the 17th W dependence, one
THEN Indin gained her 'In Recently, the Minister of Defence Italy.
of the announced in the House of Commons Indian Infantry Brigade in the ad- Issues which had to be saltled the Tripartite Agreement reached bo- vance from the Po Valley, was trans-
tween His Majesty's Government. ferred to Greeca witero_ho
of India and the monded the famous 4th Indian Di was that of the status of the the Government Gurkhas within the Army. The Kingdom of Nepal which decided vision. After the war ho qualified Gurkhas are not Indians but the future of the Gurkha Brigade, as a parachutist and took command It stated that the Gurklia regiments, of the 2nd, Indian Airborne Division come from Nepal, in the Hima of which there were ten, would be In India, Inyas, north of the United Pro- divided between India and Britain,
The first British Infantry Hem
Hegi- Before the the force' to be part of
the
British
ments to be attached to the Gurkha vinces of India:
consisting of the 2nd 7th Division are the King's Own York- of Hindustan and and 10th Gurkhu Kines and to formation
und the Buffs. The Gurkhas will at Pakistan, these Gurkha soldiers, known as "The Curkhn Regiment shire Light Infantry, the Seaforths
Infantry Brigade This
of who are Hindus, formed the Each
present only furnish the combatant would have, two units, and the men required for the Gurkha Brigade of the Indian Gurkha Division
Gurkha bottalions and ono
from British Services will be recruited Army,
battalion. The 7th Gurkha Rifles Malayan and Chinese enlisted and would be converted into artillery. trained personnel. Until the Gurk- for The Gurkhas have been associatoa
It is expected that all battalions, has with the Brillah since the Nepalese and their training centres will be in specialist jobs in such corps War, in 1813-1815 when they were the Far East-Malaya and Hongkong Signals and R.E.M.E. they will have defeated by the British. During this by the end of this year, and they a sirong British backing of war, the excellent fighting qualities of will take, with them their wives and specialists.
The Gurkha other ranks come on
the Gurkha soldiers were appreciated families.
have been
fully trained
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by the British, with the result that
a four-year contract, which includes Gen. Boucher
cix months leave in Nepal after three after peace negotiations, the Gurkhas were enlisted into the Army. The
OMMANDING Gurkha troops with years service in the Far East. The fest regiments to be raised were the
H.M. Government Is Major- pay is the same as for their equiva- 1st King George V's Own Gurkha
lent ranks in the Indian Army, but CB, CBE, their overseas service is compensated Rifles, 2nd King Edward VII's Own General C.H. Boucher,
the 3rd Queen DSO., formerly 3rd Q.A.O. Gurkha by a special allowance. Gurkha Rifles, and
Gurkha Alexandra's
Rifles. Rifles, who during the last war com-
The Gurkhas nro universally These regiments were formed in manded 10 Indian Infantry Brigade in 1815, since when the Gurkhas. have the Western Desert, was captured in known for the use of their special knives-know 48 1 kukri and proved themselves throughout history, Rommel's offensive In June 1942 but
Own
as a very staunch British ally. Infer escaped from Salmona Camp in many a fos has learnt to fear the
KONGWA...I am on
my way to
DAR-ES-SALAAM. Mar. 3.
THE officials have just borne off their great Form; into the archives go the strangely unportentous facts that I was born on June 17. 1911, that I am male, white, earn my own living, and can see, hear and walk. That is the
census.
Perhaps it serves me right that the first census I have ever been caught up in should establish me historically as an inhabitant of Dar- es-Salaam, in the territory of Tanganyika, a British Protected Person, and Person of Impermanence,
We persons of imper- manence know one thing only too well; that everywhere, even in a small and steaming African port seven degrees below the equator, the hotels. are going to be full.
Not long ago you could have had practically
the whole town for twopence; to-" day I am grateful for Д truckle hed on a verandah, under beating sun by day and a moon like a melon by night, doused with sudden bursts of terrifying rain, and with a family of African pigeons overhead to distract one with practices common to pigeons the world over.
---Dar-es-Salaam is-buster and fulier- than probably it has ever been since the days of the Arab slovers.
Д
AFRICA
the advance
base of a
great idea
JAMES CAMERON
NORTH"
RHOD
TANGANYIKA TERRITORY: TANGANYIKA;
" ITALIAN RUDOLF
SOMALILAND
KENYA
NAIROBI
EMOMBASA:
IKONGWA
NYASA
MOZAMBIQUE
INDIAN
ZANZIBAR "DAR-ES-SALAAM:
OCEAN
MOZAMBIQUE-
MADAGASCARE
"JOURNEY TO A NEW LAND OF PROMISE
It is the biggest port in East Africa built a trim and tidy little plece of a monstrous farm, a gigantic source
the
peanut; $1 oll-bearing that's not saying much-and until Bavaria among the coco palmus here of
desperate and unprecedented lifeline the new port is built further south, in Dar, and not much else.
for Britain's margarine ration, Dar-es-Salaam is a boom town.
After 1019, which the League of Of the scale and ramifications of entrusted it to Britain, this scheme I had better not say No place was ever worse equipped Nations
no one very reasonably, wanted to anything for a day or two; already ta "boom." with a climate like a Turkish bath an fine tropical sink any capital or effort into boos- some people will tell you sombrely
no ting Tanganyika. because one too much has been sald, too loud, knew what was going to happen to and foo soon. the mandate..
#1
tradition of slothful peace.
Resources
And when UNO confirmed it to Britain as Trust Territory the habit TEVERTHELESS, Dar-es-Salaam of dolce far niente was about as is the front door to Tanganyika, comfortably and solidly ingrained
N
carth
Difficulties
was
over-
device of Mr whole plan is a Strachey's to upset their cosy corner and put up the price of gin.
Those are the ones who say the plan cannot work, that the original
wildly White-paper optimistic.
If I myself did not belleve the plan to be one of the most imagina- tive and adventurous things ever to come out of Colonial politics, I might have been doubtful by now.
Achievements
Dar-es-Salaam MEANWHILE
awelters round its enchanting and inefficient harbour with a fiery sun ploughing down through 97 por cent. humidity, an oddly Germanic looking country town leavened with beauty and refined by the solemn morality the British Colonies.
flashing blades of Gurkha kukris in hand-to-hand fighting In World War II the Gurkha Rifles fought with great distinction, winning eleven V.Cs.
In 'Hongkong
EFORE the last war there were
in
pearance to Gurkhas, known as the Kumaon Rifles,' (stationed in Hung- tong) but the Gurkhas themselves have not previously been stationed here.
The Gurkhas In Hongkong will consist of 2/6th and 2/10th Gurkha Rifles, and will be under the com- mand of Brig. 1A. Skone DSQ., late of the 3rd Q.A.O. Gurkha Rifles. The 2/10th will be located at San wat and the 2/6th in Whitfield duties in the Barracks. Their Colony duties.
will Lo normal varrison
Already the advance party of the 2/10th G.R. Is here and the main body arrives tomorrow in the Strath- nover.
During the 1914-16 war both the 2/6th and 2/10th Gurkha Rifes and Gallipoli. fought in Palestine
war they wore In the last world
Lorried again together, forming part of the 43rd Gurkha
Infantry great Brigade, which fought with distinction in both Iraq and Italy. The Brigade went to Italy in early Gothic 1945 and fought from the Line to the border of Jugoslavia in
Its 2,000 Europeans, vastly out-support of Indian, New Zealand and numbered but by no means regard. Pollah Divisions: QUA
ful of 14 times as many Indians and High Discipline
nearly 40 times as many Africans, move around with dignity in the
aren.
there back to new conditions, murmuring: PEA AFTER the war they returned to
Syria and from NUTS
Tomorrow I am moving into the India where they were the Lorried interior of Central Province to Pea Brigade of the 1st Indian Armoured nut Town itself-Kongwa, the ad-Division at Secunderabad. When riot- vance base of the first operational ng broke out all over India in 1947, the 2/8th and 2/10th were rushed to and quel riots in the Punjab. From that point distances statistics become astronomical both
No greater assurance of the high achievements and disappointments standard of discipline maintained in are in the high peaks, and Messrs Ourkha Rifles could be given, than Cable and Wireless will require to that, during the communal riots in -be reinforced by the_boys_with the India, if the occasion arose and they were ordered to do so by their jungle drums.
micers, they would suppress Hindu rioters, notwithstanding the fact that hey themselves are Hindus.
Somehow, one never thought that a peanut would one day provide the biggest-spreading show on earth.
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
MANY people today must be good Perslan for manure. We laugh
congratulating themselves because you say 'manure.'
very funny." "I really had no inten- 'S to its progress, one has to go that they live in an ugly part ton of saying manure, actua-" be-
long way into
montagist. But the green of the country.. For they are gan the perturbed and Tanganyika is starting-slowly along this shore of the Indian Ocean
drowned in peal after and rather cruskily and rather to its as anywhere can been quicker the men, and women too, wees the attentions of the planner visitors held their sides and rolled.
heart of Africa to find out, among safe, for the time being, from the rest was
peal of happy laughter, as the dusky own astonishment--to grow up.
The change has
even at work among fantastic dificulties of satellite towns, tank-training their eyes. great lump-of-solid-Africa-than most. people realise which is about three times as big as here. Roads are being lald, I-am-about to do that
grounds, atomic laundries, air- The Strabismus rocket Airstrips Meanwhile, here in Dar-es- going down. far the largest ter- Ralis are ritory administered by the Colonial are appearing. pipelines are being Salaam a sort of delicate social reports, dog-tracks, and all the Description For Technicians. ductive potent the biggest pro- marked out. Men are coming in, volution is trying to take place. The other signs doned to the beasts
This
Britain and, by
Office, is
that
Nuts
in
of progressive THE Strabismus rocket which is to
"
and Peanutters have taken over Dar-es-
make a third attempt to reach thought ever to be aban- and machines and arguments
and the birds confusion and wrangling and bitter Salaam "Haven of the peace"
An ουνίους
One arch-planner was taken for a the moon is, I am informed, capable and high hope. You what it means-in
week-end. There of travelling at 4,000 miles a second. and the wealthy sports who used to frustration
enough way.
country walk at a shoot them.
can't get a room at the inn
HOUR
8,000 white in- was a thrush singing, and the plan- Instead of the usual Drayton swivel- Tanganyika's
"I didn't know drive, it is fitted with four Gobenhau It has a list of resources
whom, habitants of
since the ner stopped to listen.
Jog-stundrils, one under each begins with coal and gold, goes on
lunge-feeds are to diamonds-and nickel, mice, man-
famous censure, I have the disturbing you cared for that sort of thing," said sea.
matter of fact, I bovel-strut. The don't," honour to be one-watch, the influx bis host. "As a
sald
the planner. You non-reversible, and are screwed un- dorman- ganese, chromium, iron, salt, phos-
a Castleton-Revere of the quiet, remoto with what can only be described as SK why
vou know, a man asked me once what der
whelve-pins, phate, graphite lead, and tin, and
A Fr.pire builders watching all this leads on from there, thousands of and the
Each answer comes crisp and a highly watchful reserve. If you useful purpose it served, and I was gauge, with flexible It has also lens
ever saw a party of Commandos en-
residential absolutely stumped. I don't know scuttle-edged and transfluvent, lounge of
copple-plug fits into a Dueros socket tering the
the answer to this day."
over the fudge, thus leaving cres of heartbreaking nothingness, clear: NUTS.
the Groundnuts. Call them pea hotel in Cheltenham, you will know bush and rock, jungle and wilder-
Mr Velvette speaks Persian
morlins free of the overhanging what I mean. ness. It has ludicrously few roads nuts, or monkeynuts; probably a
and of reinforced Thalamite, (385,000 square miles, and the total ward more praised, reviled, mocked,
whose imagination has been touched MOLIN VELVETTE interview, supple-plunger. The nozzle-cap
the three Persians in his or worshipped here than any other. length of metalled roads would not
has a pum-curb, Janion-sprung. be run from London
to Brighton).
This is the base of the Ground-
vigour and excitement of ound by
tually," they broke into ribaid low the starboard, gizel. The weft- Its railways, In the
African nut Scheme: here is the rear echelon The Scheme, applaud the enterprisece, But the moment he said at
funny?" he shutters are made of Calabol hazards, and marshalling
laughter, "What's so yard of the greatest and sympathise with the fashion, run inland. from the coast, and.
There are others who mayo a asked touchly. "Ekchulah," said Whither, Papua? parallel lines that connect nowhere. agricultural experiment aver seen It has a main port-this one I am here or anywhere elsa in the world. rather old-fashioned look for the Kazbulah. "Oh, very good. ho, yes,
Here were assembled the handful hundreds of carmest and fractious where you have learned to speak LESE synthatic travellers," sald In-to which no ship of any size can
the cannibal, pushing back his even come alongside..
of men and mass of gadgets that peanut men, their smoke and dust Persian" "Peralan?" asked generations it has been like were to turn three and a quarter und entourage of salesmen and astonished choreomane. "Ekchulah." plate with a grimace of displeasure,
and reflect
that this. The Germans who owned it million acres of Darkest Africa into specialists,
the replied Rizamughan, "is indeed very are not Et to eat,
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