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24 1
JOE LOUIS
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1948.
THEY'RE IN LONG, HARD WAR
NEW MEXICO NOW-CLICKING THAT SHUTTER
'And I'm gon'-to take one of them when they've finished”
START
NEW MERILO
IN MALAYA
BY HARRIS JACKSON
long, hard war appears to face the British and
A their Malay, Chinezo, Indian and Guriche alles
here in their fight to prevent establishment of n Communist stale.
The British defence forces are a considerable mixture of fired planters and tin mino managers, nowly re- cruited Malay guards, relatively inexperienced British Tommlos and swarthy Gurkhas, RAF squadrons anti trained policemen, plus a thin sprinkling of Army veterans.
Against them is a scattered guerilla force, estimated nt 4,000 to 6,000, which the British army commander in Kuala Lumpur says is named the Communist National Liberation Army and which, he says, plans by Septem- ber 1 to be organised and trained to Aght for the establishment of a Communist state in Malaya.
In their favour the British have numbers (at least. Ave times as many men as the insurgents), vastly superior equipment, money and the support-passive support, at least of the population.
But on their side the insurgents have a country thickly overspread with dense jungle in which to hide, considerable fear among many of the population, and the element of surprise in striking where least expected at any one of numerous unprotected points,
PLAN OF OPERATIONS
ERE is how the British combined offensive-defensive plan of operations will shape up when their forces are at full strength and fully trained.
The police will run the show, since a civilian govern- ment is in control and since the police leader possessER a more intimate knowledge of the country and its people. The Army will assist them wherever possible, making raids, going through suspected "bad" areas. The Royal Air Force will give aerial support, search for enemy concentrations, help the Royal Navy to traich the const lines to prevent reinforcementa for the insurgents coming in.
I ought to call this ghastly story-
THE NEW 'IDIOT'S DELIGHT '
BERLIN, July 22. NCE again this evening as we stumble blindly home by candlelight, with air- craft rumbling incessantly over- head, it is all too like the days gone by.
My black market man said, with simple dignily: "When the time comes I will stand by Anglo- America. I do my bit. Other- wise I guess I am a gone goose." The Berliner has fallen readily
into his new emotionally, Europe's galiant martyr, or Berlin Can Take It.
Berlin, the present seems even more senseless than the past. s us through."
role
Л
JAMES CAMERON
sendi today the word- picture everyone has been waiting to read from the danger spot of the world. A. people everywhere struggle to grasp the horri. blo paradox of Berlin, Cameron tells the story as he sees it. "the definitive idiocy of the human race."
In a fragment of a bombed block
man and his girl were,
of the scene.
as they
At least 6,000 volunteer police will guard catates,, mines and other possible points of attack. Usually 'The estate and mine managers will head the individual defence units. The official
This will permit the more experi- American point of enced regular police and the Army view-that now is the hour to test to operate offensively against the the Russian will to war-has cry- stallized everything for the Ameri-hide-outs and "destroy them," say Insurgents, to seek them out in their
cans at least.
the military leaders.. And there are Americans .right Much will depend on the way the here who are sincerely astontalied population comes forward with in- that there might exist Englishmen formation about the insurgents and who see the "showdown" as
That the reports on their movements. final conflict of two non-European in turn depends on how sure the Powers over doomed and dis- population is that they are pro- Integrating Europe, and who some-tected from some lurking insurgent. how find it hard to regard that as And that in turn depends on how an hour of glory.
successful are the troops, police and guards,
Th talk is of armed convoys, of Shows of Force, of Tough Notes, never
MATTER OF URGENCY of our unspeakable old argu- ment that talks loudest of all, Bomb.
The PUT the planned organisation is at B least several months away from Perhaps the same political de anything like the stogo where it licacy that now keeps the namo can carry out on a full scale this Buchenwald from the tongue in-¡ offensive defensive
programme. So be approves the sudden Allied say, courting, all politics forgot and hibits the use of the simple word Many of the Army are new recruits or unfamiliar with this country and Now, when the rumours start, discovery that Berlin is full of all outside in the dusty wreck a guitarist atom. and hate and pride and malice the Christian and democratic quall lover to strum a lleder and thus take
its jungle The peaks singing, hired for the evening by the
warfare. The regular police force now numbers 10,500 of growl over the ugly rubble of ties of resistance and titude, vill something from the squalid misery AND, indeed, Berlin, poor, dusty cruits
a planned total of 13,000. Now re- Their courage, their fortitude,
must be trained for five carcase, has little more to tear months. Volunteer auxiliary police than Hiroshima. Yet
perhaps total 4,000 of the anticipated 0,000. the only one in this disputing Their training. takes. two months. multitude who ever saw that article Getting these volunteers on station in action-have an especial night in the country's estates, mines and mare that populates these desolate other production centres is a matter streets with even prisiler ghosts. of pressing irgency. Some of the As for the Russians, no one larger estates have recruited their knows. have spent two after own guards, armed
and set up them noong walking and riding in and real military organisations.
But far too many of them have
no
Is not that what his masters have Of all the ghosts that walk this always told him, whoever his mas→ dismal realm of ruin, one at least, ters were? In this apotheosis of the is happy today--the wry shade of Good Old Germany phantom or Auschwitz Goebbels laughing merrily in hell memory of Belsen
Indeed, to see his words at last coming true. comes to spoil the theme.
The Impending calamity with to recall them is considered dis- Russia on which so many minds tasteful and Impolite. scem now so inflexibly set, has chosen a strange starting point.
For anyone whose senses are not yet numbed by this weary waste of debris, it seems very nearly in- credible that Berlin, of all places-- that broken monument of felly could once again be talking war.
It is irrevocably apparent that the
diplomatists on all sides have manoeuvred us into a situation from
which no one can now expediently
withdraw.
It is axiomatic that when the statesmen fall they shout for the soldiers. We are not at that post now. I think we may never reach it. But we are perilously near it.
The trigger-happy talk one side helps as little as the steely
mugness
the other. In
Congress and the Kremlin, is Berlin.
on
the
the
Ever since the blockade begso we have proclaimed that our air lift will keep our sector from starving.
Now the Russians say, with a rather studied casualness, that they have enough and to spare for all comers who will go to their sector and pay in their East marks.
about the Russian sector. I met Quaint Paradox
Berliners life
is
everyone has some; our own em-
THE Germans
the now conceive quaintest paradox of all: "We may The East marks set no problem; be the new Czechoslovakia."
ployees are paid in large proportion For so many Indeed a
today, in East marks. painful dreamland with the deadening certainty that nothing within a measurable time It is more unlikely that weary Berliners will walk vast distances can improve their state, that even
to do their meagre shopping in the wor can scarcely worsen it.
Berlin The exacerbating every disagreement mile trip on foot,
papers,
Is
no Russian, hostile or friendly, fat only a makeshift defence organisa- or tyrannical. or hungry, kind or cruel, democratic | tion. On most, the key to both de- fence and production is a group of Outside, there no link, no over worked managers and labour touch, no personal liaison, no point cular estate work by day and stand contractors, who must do their re- of human rapprochement,
All communication is from the guard against possible attack at
Government remote peaks of misunderstanding, night
officials and in- at the top of one's voice. The line leaders of the tin and rubber
dustries agree that relief for them is under the control of the Itusstans.
-dutifully--Soviet-zone; it might mean a ten- over which I telephone to England is necessary, and soon, fest they'
with venom directed according to which side licenses them, can now get pretty well all the invective they require just from the official communiques.
are hircling instruments, They without conviction or soul, just as the Berlinera themselves arc plain ballast in a struggle that quite
Tactics
move
has
NEVERTHELESS, the
efficient politics. It helps to devalue both The Allied Beriln mark
and the Allied Berlin policy together.
crack under the strain.
It is hard to assess accurately the extent of British success against their enemies in the first five weeks. since the "war" officially started with the proclamation of a state of emor-
Tho of a The government claimed some 00 terrorists were
Because it
It is presumably insped (can you hear me, Molotov?) they say they like plenty of volume and good articulation. Anyhow,
never better in its life. And
of all 00,000,000 only half a dozen are under Four-Power authority: les
was
now
the ne
Germany's
men
gency.
killed, and that arresis of known.
in suspected or patential terrorists to-
middle, caught like a. nut between obviously must repel its climax quite possibly the restoration of Spandau Jail, Four-Power authorilast month of that period 89 persons,
Rumour DERLIN today is, obviously, a city of wild and fanciful rumours,
B
of nightly flaps and alarms among
the maze of Informed Circles and
Public Relations.
soon.
The blockade has made circum- stances tougher, nerves tenser. Electricity is one for two hours in 24. transpor is closing down
talled almost 1,500, But during the
The next move is likely to be the Speer and Docnitz and Itaeder and actual production of the food, and the other ageing war criminals electric power, which might make tý how axists only there. And our air lift look a little redundant, they, it is safe to say, do not care most of them Chinese, were murder- and would once again toss the ball much either.
ed by terrorists, the government also back into our court.
announced.
Already the cigarette currency, so
The alf th obs and murmurs with long a feature of the Berlin economy,
Food! Food!
ON THE MOVE
GR the Malayan mainland, Major-General
THE Army Commander at least for the present, some-
the unending procession of planes has become part of the political FOR the rest, Berliners know that bringing into Catow and Tempelhof, game. Russia sells her cigarettes enough food, we are assured to feed freely-but for Allled B marks only, one will feed them; right now it C. H. Boucher, says that the British to be a propaganda? forces now dre either holding their The Berliners, knowing the edge West Berlin's 2,500,000 indefinitely. so as to immobilise as much of the would seem
resented currency as possible,
competition between the Russians own or are on the offensive. Various on which they live, inherit every No one looks at them any more.
The Americans are believed to be and the Allies as to who shall da large Army "sweeps”—thorough and start, Interpret them Berlin continues ita grotesque lying in untold numbers of cigarettes it.
combing of arcas suspected of shel- variously with cynicism or despair. representation of rational
to meet the assault. The satirical That is the Important thing tering insurgent
concentrations But at heart they, rightly, care shabby, dowdy, wan, ridden by Berliner could ask for nothing better food. Not honour or liberty or de- have produced no spectacular num- ices than anyone. The Berliner, day-to-day problems, flogging this, than the stepping up of such a war mocracy, or freedom, or
alt the bers of killed or arrested terroriste. without resources, has ittle to lose
and fiddling that, trying to turn with such an ammunition..
shop-worn and devalued words But military and police reckon they a baming confusion of currency, Into
which, in the mouths of angry men, have been useful, not only to train send other men to war,
the troops, but also to keep the Food is the thing, the belly is the insurgents on the move, scatter them
Ideas belong to Every so often the flat tones of THE menace has not yet ruinously boss.
other races about, make their communications Already the West Berliner seca drabness are pointed up by some affected life above-stairs-in now.
and supply position more difficult, himself vaguely as a Free Fighting nightmare burst of extravagant chic the leafy Allees of British
The Berliners see the Americans, and show the population that the German, with old General fund-
HQ.s in the Grunewald for all their dollars, and the Bri-Forces are active.
out- stedt resurrected in England
Veteran cast as de Gaulle.
now.
A war would at least rationalise the odd pfennig's worth of profit an existence that has no future, to themselves.
anyway.
and
по
A black market boss I know, an urbane and comradely man,
saici: dead. "Business Is
There is material for my business under the blockade. Why
having to live on my rations,"
EXID
It is unlikely that he was telling the truth. There are leaks in the prices -£3, for a ring and black pound of butter 12s. for a loaf of bread-show no real signs of coming down.
NANCY
Made-to-Order
MY ARROWS ALWAYS LAND UP ON THE RIGHT-
SIDE
V
And now?
and
a bizarre hat, scarlet silken New American Look against a background of broken and Dahlem, occupation officials still tiah, for all their principles, lenge to the endless dreariness. brick, somo desperate feminine chal- contrive
In the nightclubs, quarried from the cellars, you can (with enough of the right money) drink a glass of good wine and hear a song.
Like Balzac ND late last night, not far from
the Hohenzollernatrasse, -
you could have seen a sight to divert the heart of a Balzac,
OH, DEAR --- I DID
IT AGAIN
can police officers inslet, how- a life that is only about manoeuvred heartlessly by the cold, ever, that action by troops alone is four or five times better than in unsentimental Power across the not going to beat the insurgents. England.
Tor all
rger goodwill
AC-
war
That, they say, also will take squads the and of police guerillas, It was still possible last night to
knowing Jungle living and moving in it, and hear one wounded complaint against compromise disappearing in an the blockade, that there was no ice celerating mill of frustration and beating the insurgents at their own to cool the wine.
outrage. They see some sort of a game, To carry on such It is also possible in this Gilded crisis growing very near.
offectively, the police force must be Cage tone of the Liddle Jokes) lo They see their old enemies stumb-brought up to full strength and fully hear more earnest. ighting talk ling into the final and definitive trained, and its "statio" guard duties. than-one Bometimes feels--can Idiocy of the human kind, and they on private properties must be taken possibly be going en In Whitehall say, begging the question to the last: over by volunteers Associated.
Press, "Can all this be for mo?"-
or Washington.
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