THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1950.
PLANE
SHIPMENT UNDER ARMS AID
U.S. Navy Oghter und bomber planes are loaded aboard the French aircraft carrier, Dixmude, at the Norfolk (Virginia) Naval Base as America's billion- dollar arms-for-Europe programme begins. The carrier ferried about 50 planes
back to Europe. (Acme)
Pressing Problem For The Commonwealth
Lowland Division
Lives
Again
"Not all these indispensable changes in the structure of the Terri- torial Army are unpleasant necessities," said Mr John Strachey, the War Minister, when he outlined Britain's new plan for her reserve Army in the House of Commons recently, "For example,” he continued, "it has been possible to group certain brigades together in Scotland to form a recon- stituted 52nd Lowland Division, the absence of which from the Territorial Army has been much deplored in the past.”
when the
frontler
Allies were poised The news of the re-birth | indeed contributing to the fund
for their invasion of Normandy. of this Division will give of British military experience a
whole series of discoveries the After its experiences in Hol- pleasure to much more than Imperial General Staff had land, the Lowinnd Division had Scotland It has a namo never before been obliged to some very hard Bghting on the and a reputation which conte the received the more out the Roer
centemplate.
of Germany, cleared pocket, and be- stand high among all Terri-
common sort of iraling in came the first British Division torials and with the Regular Combined Operations and the to set up its headquarters on Army.
German sell. use of amphibiou, craft. In a
It crossed the Few such major formations third phase it mastered the Dortmund-Ems cannt at Theine with the tanks co-operation many highly specialised selences pro-in co-c changes of role and unexpected per ta on airborne, or, rather, of the "Desert Rats" and 4th adventures In World War II.air-parable division...r staff Armoured Drigade, in the face The only British division to re-planned to undertake no fewer of desperate resistance from the major purely Territorial than seven
operations best troops the Germans had beginning from Normandy up to, and in-left, and ended on a note of
cluding. Arnhemn.
triumph with the capture of the great bomb-smashed seaport of Bremen.
as the
52nd
Ind
à
main on from the
30
เก
UNDER SEA LEVEL
of hostililles, the end formed of the 2nd British
part Expeditionary Force sent Into
The Division did not go into France after Dunkirk in June action until October 1914, more 1940, in n last and very des-than three months after D-Day, to en the and then the Inds who ware an perate attempt collapsing French resistance. their sleeves the proud "Moun
Only 157 Brigade and itstain" legend of their specialized supporting artery was actual training were led to assault the ly involved in this fighting. low benches and dykes of South When it came, the Jocks were Beveland and Walcheren, nud, 150 miles inlund from Cher-in the conquest of these Dulch bourg, having slogged their way Islands, to fight largely under itscorching
heat
through sea level and often to move in columns of refugees and dis- boats. At no time until its organised French soldiers.
campaign ended with the cap- NIGHTMARE TREK
ture of Bremen did the Divi- for the ridges. They went into netien in vir- sion, trained tual isolation
news of the passes and the peaks, fight anthe the surrender of Parls came at more than 300 feet above sen
through. They fought grimly, level."
Not a few Englishmen served In the 62nd, and its one VC, Fastlier Dennis Douning (Royal was the son of Scols Fusiliers)
confectioner in Italian Durham mining village.
FESTIVAL WILL END IN BLAZE
NOT OPTICAL ILLUSION
RIO BUEHD'AOSTA
No, it's a night view of a resort hotel in the winter sports town of Sestriere, Italy. The famous land- mark, built like a circular tower, has 184 rooms which range along a 1,700-foot spiral ramp. (Acmo)
O OF GLORY Colourful London
but were withdrawn when the During its long training, the Germon attacks became heavy, und
to
This year's Edinburgh
of
make Music and Drama, which
to use the sk? International Festival tou Jocks learned were sen! even and
the nowshee, farther away from the Channel Ligioos and shape and live in will be held from August 20
to join "ast line seross holes scooped in the
BOTES
Fathe
mountain-
snow,
Britanny" which the French-top rows, and they experi-to September 9, is to end in were reported to be preparing, monted with every kind of new a blaze of glory on the
Castle Esplanade. It was only when utter di equipment and gadget.
One party went to Colorate Sir Thomas Bereham is to con- 10 Lest the U.S.-developed duct a performance of Handel's "Weasel" 23 tracked vehicle "Music for the Royal Fireworks" which can surmount
on the floci Esplanade, with att wnler. Another the Cafle as
background. The swamp party was sent to study moun orchestra will be augmented by jri the Canadian two brass bands, and there will aineering
of cannon be an accompaniment from the Castle. The lights on the Castle and the Esplanade will then be extinguished, and gigantle fireworks display will bring the Festival to a close.
faced them that Lord aster Alanbrooke, acting firmly, or- deret deal withdrawal cvacuation. After Gnother London, Mar. 27.-Transfer of population, emigration, redistribu- nightmare trek to the const, the across the last Jucks started all add up to one tion of the white population of the Commonwealth
According to Mr H. H. Channel early on June 18. That of the most pressing problems of the day. Hinsley, Lecturer in Modern History at Cambridge, "the British must build a fourth British Empire of perish as a Great Power."
two years" he raid,
evening, the Germans
entered Rockies.
Cherbourg be four years be
It was to
"Move 20 million people from steps would have to be taken In outlining the argu- ments historical, econo-India at 20 million more will to adjust the financial and other for a bewildering variely
tate their place in less than economic relationships between roles. mic, strategic and demo-
the Dominions and Great Flood," graphic in favour of re- distribution within the Commonwealth. Mr Hinsley we have in the Commonwealth
The uneven distribution which
Britain.
the
་
n
FALSE MESSAGES Negative though this training may have appeared at the time, it proved to be perhaps their most important role. Though
FOUR PLAYS they never made the attack on
There will be four plays at the they were Norway for which
* Festival, free of them by Scots. know- Intended, the Germans' edge that a division was being on, and two of there by con- temporary dramatists, Eric Link- trained in mountain warfare in
later and James Bridle. The Old Highlands kept big and Vic Company
any will give th
the first the badly-needed enemy forces tied public performance for 220 years
that of Ben
Fair."
Ceremony
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
London, Mar. 23.
Doctor Subandrio, the newly appointed Ambassador of Indonesia, today presented his credentials to the King at Buckingham Palace. At 11 am, two gleaming black and gold State landaus, with the Royal Crest blazoned on the coach doors, drow up outside the Embassy in a quiet Knightsbridge crescent, and in so doing a colourful old custom was revived,
This is the first time brightly coloured kain, with a
black laco scart OVET since the war that (L
shoulders. Foreign Ambassador has
her
In the second landau was the been called for In this tradi-Trade Commissioner, Mr Wester- 'tional way.
mon, and the First Secretary, The troppings of the two Dr Zainal Abidin.
Dr Subandrio held
a large chestnut horses, leading the first
hung with white envelope containing his letters of credence, tassels of gold, and the conch-ictal, with д Ave-pointed
landau, were
fore the Division went into ac tion again--four years spent in arduous training and preparing of "Mountain and newly-published history of the Division, Mr George Blake, an ex-52nd man Not for a moment did Mr himself and a former editor of Hinsley suggest that a scheme the Edinburgh Evening Citizen, of this magnitude is a simple describes them thus:
For years, in the Highlands undertaking, He did, however,
an im-of
of Scotland, it practised nsist thng It was not postitile task, and does not think special arts of Mountain War-
learning by hard emigration should be regarded | fave, us a defentist policy. It could perience and in harsh be the promoliun of Common-tions a technique What has steadily ruled our wealth evolution on the soundest unknown to the most recondite lieving that an attack on Nor
dressed traditionally in Javanece coaches in the War Office; way was imminent at the time specialists since position
Coincidences 1870's he asked.
and
used his political and his- gth and sour
source of strength a the of torical judgment on
weakness, politically economically. facts.
this:
MILITARILY UNSOUND
Briefly, his point was the white populations of the world are likely in cease to How altogether by 1970 or soon after. The main reason is the voluntary Imitation of birthsmie over the past 70 years. Great
the lines.
Britain, he says, is typleal of continually increasing popata. af konic, and continually increasing Industrial competition "I attempting to ex- was addressing abroad.
while Exports
holding
example, and quoted us facts and Agures to prove IT.
Mr Hinsley
large audience at the Royal Hand a larg Empire Socicly in London, down imports, we are trying There were murmurs of agree to reverse tentleneies dominant men when he made his second! our external gemonie rela- point--that
opinion,tions In the lat 70 years,"
In his
teen would be no great decline in the non-white peoples of the world for the next 100 years.
SUN SYLPH
In Britain, the majority of people look upon enigration as to a HOW life, in the way
which
badly Bre But there is
countries
under-populated,
1
in the
a strong strategic argument
of emigration favour dominions. It is now militarity unsound to have the centrallsa- on of the Commonwealth war potentiat in the United King- dom, owing to the revolution which has taken place in war by the development of new weapons.
"Redistribution as a long term sald policy must concern
Me Hinsley. "We can no longer rely on the Navy and the English
defence." for
Channel
Ap- parently WC ean no longer even net as an anal or planning headquarters, for the
me reason.
1:
Both in the interests of the Commonwealth, no of Great Britain itself, redistribution of popolation is the most logical and sensible strategy. Far from sinking ship-the
11
Witude adopted by many who
are
agalust emigration-Great Britain could easily afford to lose twenty million people. She would still be the centre of the Commonwealth. She would still have some thirty million people icft.
NOT SO STARTLING
Development is held back in the colonies because they are under-populated, and Bir Hinsley envisages n not transfer of twelve to fifteen million next thirty people over the
mostly
Canada, years, Australia and New Zealand, but also 40 South
Africa and
to
thodesia. This Agure is not so startling when converted to the annual rate of just under 500,000 emigrants a year. At Fleming sung herself dur.present 300,000 emigrants ing a boat trip on Lake year la our averago since the
Film actress Rhonda
Mead, near Las Vegas, Nevada. Her smooth lines provide a contrast to the rugged landscape in the background (Acme)
war,
Mr. Hinsley stressed that a Inir cross-section of the popula- tion must leave-old and young, working and dependent, skilled and-unakled, and said that
MAKING THE
the
up awaiting never came.
Du Invasion
Jonson's "Bartholomew Syu Thorndike, Dame This illusion was heightened Sir Lewis Casson, and Sonfe ex- In 1944. False radio messages Dresdel will be among the artists condi-sent on by the 52n hood who will appear.
of Aghting winke the Germans into be-1
BATHTUB SAFE
Little Merlo Graham, aged five, tests a new device in Chicago to abolish fails in the bathtub. Working like a motor car jack, the holsi sent lifts the bather, swings him over the tub and lowers him into the water. All he has to do is to wash himself. (Acme)
K. O. CANNON
WHISPER
DON'T FIDGET. CHILD! THERE'S MO MEED FOR YOU TO BE NERVOUS.
HOT FOR ME, THSAN ISN'T, MA, PROFILE „ZYDU LEFT VOLJA PISTOL IN THE BACK CAR POCKET.. REMEMBRA 7
HOW STOP THE CAR, PLEASE.
The New York Ballet Theatre,
the Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo with Leonide Mussine as guest artist) and some Spanish dancers will each perform for a week, and the seven orchestras include the world-famous Milan Orchés- tra of La Scala, the Statsradio. fonien Orchestra from Denmark, the Orchestre National, the Haile and the Royal Philharmonie. One thousand nine hundred artists in all will take part. It is hopeti to atage
military display.
Letters of inquiry are pouring in at the rate of 500 a week from all parts of the world.
TRIBUTE TO
RED CROSS
In Nelson's cabin in IIMS
Victory the Admirał of the Fleet, Sir Algernon Willis, en- tertained the British Red Cross Society to luncheon recently, En taken of gratitude for Its work for the Navy during the war and since.
The 20 guests,
including the Society's chairman, Lord Wool- tom, and its vice-chairman, the Countess of Limerick, assembled In
cabin. the Neron's day study in which he wrote famous prayer before Trafalgar And began his unfinished letter to Lady Hamilton.
his
to-
Both cabins were as they were in Hei
Nelson's time, including the black-and-white chequer-board floor covering of old sail canvas. But instead of the lanterns which lighted the cabin when Nelson and Hardy dined
there was electric light. Beer 1939 over 8,000 VAD'S
Since of the Red Cross and Order of St John have served with the Royal Navy; 300 are serving today. Including 100 overseas. The Society and the Order niso provide welfare officers In hospitals at home and over-
5005.
The Riddle of the Red Domino
PUT THAT OUN DOWN, CHILD
YOU ARE SCARING
PAUNCH.
JUST A FLICK OF THE WRIST AND
À HAVE TH PISTOL .... SAK?; PAUNCH 15..
...BUCH A NEAVOUS TYPE
AND ONE SUP HERE COULD BE DISTRESSING
„QUITE DISTRESSIMO!/
men and footmen were ankle-stamped length scarlet caped conis.
lar like that used by President
Sir John Monk, the Marshal Sockarna to illustrate his five- The omelai crest of of the Diplomatic Corps,
point plan, stepped
out of the first one and went the new Embassy has not yet inside
the
The
was
Mounted police escorted the
drove as they
along
of sight-
to Embassy bring been chosen. Dr Subandrio back with him. IMPROMPTU PARTY'
Ambassador new blangkon diarik wiron, and Knightsbridge and up Constitu- plain Jacket, and faced a battery ten Hill, and crowds
on the sects wat
watched them enter the of cameras as he stood Embassy steps
Courtyard The BBC had a recording van Palace. there, and reporters, private
and photographers
...of.
Buckingham
who
this
Another Ambassador pressmen presented his credentials with Bash bulbs were milling morning with all the glory and round. Dr Subandrio was photo-pomp of a prewar London core- graphed as he left the Embassy,mony was from Ecuador.
It was just 15 minutes before ani as he entered the coach.
the brief cer
WAB Over, ceremony MADAME SUBANDRIO
Dr and the landau brought
A diversion was caused by Subandrio back to the Embassy. Budojo, the Ambassader's six-There an impromptui lunch-timo year-old son, who could hardly party was held, and as Sir John contain his impatience, and Monk was leaving, Budojo, who clamoured to be allowed to go had been expressly told by his to anyone, mother not to talk with his father to the palace.
goodbye,
I noticed Madame Subandrio rushed forward and called out
dressed in the entrance,
in a exeltedly "Goodbye, pale blue and binck kebaja, and goodbye!"
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