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Tokyo, July 10,
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KOREA FLIERS
London Express Service
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'Just bring
OUR times yesterday the twin- 6 engined United States transport plano which
carrying mo swooped in to land at Tasjon. This short, narrow, pot-holed airstrip makes the little Korean town of Thejon one of the most important centres in the world to- day.
Four times a 50 miles an hour cross-wind seized UB just as we touched ground. Four times the pilot zoomed up again, just missing a menncing belt of trees on a rise nt the end of the
runway.
He made no fifth attempt. Instead, ho circled apolo- getically over the little
camp of Nissen huts and streets of dirty looking
hovels which made
up the advance
base of M a c-
us out some
Thunderbolts'
Arthur's forces Sefton Delmer's NEWSMAP
defending Koren.
across the
Then he headed off homeward
But when I spoke with the freight now being rushed from mountains to Southern lers after they had returned the United States to Korea in
They even had the effrontery to trap a battalion of Americans. When North Koreans ollacked with their tanks from Pyontack in a southerly direction, South
WHATS GOING ON
by EPHRAIM HardCASTLE
ITTING in the box A feature
of tho 1959
UU
next to mine at the social season has been Royal Air Force dia ties held in the country.
Increase in the number of par
play at Farnborough was a
small, middle-aged man. He
The standard was set by the Earl and Counters of Lelgester,
ant unobtrusively watching who gave □ dance for their the greatest flying show daughter Anne in treasure-inden of all time.
Holkham Hall, оп the north
He was
not a guest of coast of Norfolk. the King in the Royal The party was voted the best of the year, for ito galety and the glory of its petting.
Enclosure.
He was not a guest of the Air Council in the Special the play in the Dake of Mart. Then 1,800 dancers took up
Enclosure.
borough's Blenheim Palace,
Blz Giord and lady fo
He was nover mentioned by the commentator. Ils entertained 400 guests to a dance
narne did not appear in the for their only child, Gins, at 56-page programme.
floodlit Towersey Manor, Thiime.
Lady
And yet:-
And on July 21, The display could not Shrewsbury is giving a dance is have been held
Staffordshire for without Venetia Heber-Percy, one of the her niece, him.
preltiest girls presented at Court
Warrior Chiof
The breathtaking evolu- Ühis year. tions of Vampire and Meteor, Canberra and Venom, the indescribable speed of the Hawker P 1052 and the Vickers-Armstrong
exper-
LTHOUGH real hot war has bolled up in the Far East, tio has been said about the
mental type 610-all stem- Commander-in-Chief of British med from his genius. His land forces in that theatre.
should have been the seat It is a strange omission, for
of honour.
Lieut.-General Sir John Hardling.
the right
For the unobtrusive man K. C. B., D. 8. C., M. C., in the box next to mine was colourful figure, and Sir Frank Whittle, inventor nan for a hot spot. of the jet engine.
As a fighter, he has the fury
but
How he must have gloried und: the gusto of Falbon,
commander and planner, he has of the the quiet professional efficiency
in the brilliant success of none of the flamboyance. As a
this
first revival
|R.A.F. pageant since 1937,
In those
days he was
still a junior officer work- ing out his theories in a small back room.
At Farn- borough it W 3 5 jets, jets, jets all Americana a bit Inter explor- the way, jets ing the reiglibourhood dia- which per-
Koreans itely evacuated
the town of
that Chonan was still they sent in a
coupled, so
formed Ва
battalion.
superbly that This, apparently, was what no one could the North Koreans had been doubt the waiting
From Banking supremacy for. positions of Onchorni And Ipchonni they closed in, nipped
the road to Toejon, and shut up a U.S. battalion In a minor Stalingrad.
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which he had started out.
thing. "Give 11:1 the old has to be reloaded In Jepan Thunderbolt P.43 and we will into smaller machines. "I'm sorry," the pilot said to fix up this job in no time," said me and the three soldiers he one of them.
was carrying as supercargo. "I know how badly they need this stuff" and he swept his arm over the crates of munitions
ond spares which led the I
metal-walled hold.
·
No
Time'
FOUND it was the refrain they all echoed. Even with "Du! I don't want to end my the extra fuel tanks, these fels clays in Korea,
we are flying do not allow us enough time at this either."
nor yours
tanks.
range
when
for
the
f
planes.
of Alexander.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS British Few can vie with his full-dress
glitter. What was the comment character. of this modest man when chasing. nsked if he was not proud the fruits of hla
And,
1
as an
individual, he
is graced with many fine qualities which stem to make
per-
the sonal friend of
everyone meets.
he
During the
last war ho Was known to la
the
troops of
whose general favourite action zation was th
Larik
Icad lag Three times he was wounded, three times he won the D.5.0.
His favourite recreation gives a clue to s sleeple-
It
is
Alions
CASUAL remark of a friend,
Bn
labour so convincingly dis- there is every sign that the played?
who said that lie had spent North Koreans are mossing for
afternoon "photographing He said: a punch down the east coast in
many wild goats in Staffordshire," put the direction of the rail on air propellers about torlay, are on to the trail of one of communications centre of Taegu, there?" and then Pusan Itself.
magiers hold
"Not
Triple Knight
Britain's most curious antimal herds.
At Lord Bagot's home, on the border of Cannock Chase, under the shadow
of potteries and
ham Palace Ball-he has they are more appeared in all his finery of Tibet than of the heart of
Industrial England. medals, stors and sashes. Locals say that the goats came
Why dld the Amerkan AERICAN fliers told me that
they occupied country not build airfields in readiness
present eventuality?
Because the National Security Beard in Washington's Pentagon
In any case, they appear deter- Bullding decided two years ago, with the full approval of the mined to sever the rail and road U.S. Government, that it would in and present linking IT must have been a proud coal mines, there is a herd of Of the three other aircraft make a thorough Job of the take too much in men, money, Taelon and Pusan.
The North Koreans and their week for Mr Douglas about 70 wild goats. am materials. which I saw circling Taejon
Soviet Now the American command advantages over while we were trying to land
two Fairbanks. Twice--nt the Thunderbolts, In addition to is hurling
MacArthur American Independence Day with long
Allen, Asiatle-looking and shy, only one, I learned later, made
American rockets, it.
troops despite his undisputed command dinner and at the Bucking heads and back-sweeping korns, bombs.
white сату
They straight from the train into of air and real-
coats, black The
have range and they are iwo othera were well armoured we could
10 battle-piecemeal-anything to compelled by that came cross- in right low and stay there."
reminiscent of come stop the gaps, hold the Kum wind to follow
River line, and our examplo Where are the Thunderbolts? irstrip from
prevent this and turn back to Japan with- Not in Japan-not in the U.S.A. hands of the enemy.
falling into the out unloading their supplies for either. The last United Statca the front.
And I can tell you that, century Air Force group still equipped
in a company of warriort, Richard II, to his friend Joh one of the with Thunderbolts is
What Next? have added Munich, in Germany, an officer
statesmen, diplomats, and Bagot. here from told me after looking it up. BUT there it is, Levellers and
courtiers, there And even
are few this group s on bulldozers are very heavy
indeed who can the point of being converted to stuff. It is as much as the mall
vie with film ways can do to bring up artillery
star Fairbanka in I wonder
from the parts where it was In the
Already now, I am told, there this
matter of full-dress landed.
is evidence that Chinese troops glitter. What comes next? In my are being brought up to Man-
American task is churia to help the North Koreans, This remarkable man, whose doubles at Wimbledon there was,
Two crack
armles
are reported real-Ilfe role of courtier easily for once, not a single American To slow down the North on their way.
General Chen outshines anything that Holly on the court. All
tour men, the same trouble 1 Korean advanco do much as troops which took the island of thought up for him, wears star and Sidwell, were Australians,
Keng is marching up with the wood script writers have ever Bromwich and Quis!, Browa
Which is just many polats that up since I arrived Washington.
More Bad News Jets."
near
thin:-
They
are off to a flying start, while MacArthur's forces suffer from the slownes in developing their resource: which Invariably handicaps de-
mocracy aflocked tarlar aggressor.
by a totali-
Inexhaustible numbers They can always deploy more men.
Halaan and General
to Staffordshire in the 14th as the gift of King
Happy auguries
sport the Dominions have been swiftly
the world of
restoring British prestige.
In the final of the men's
whether, DON'T put your faith in the light of Korean experience the
optimists. Make up your US, air chiefs will not perhaps view the minds to a lot more bad news. think this one over again.
As I sat in the air bare wall- What is hampering the jets ls, ing for a plane to take me of course,
to Korea I watched that is holding up air supplies quadron after squadron of to Tacjon And piher vilai it can. American jet fighters roar of reclors of the Korean front. Under action of this rear with the assault specialists who
And though he was beaten in Chen Yi of three orders of knighthood.
the final of the to attack the enemy 300 miles That is the almost
men's singies, complete guard acllon to prepare & took the lalond of Chusan.
He is Knight Commander of the fine fighting play of 22-ye away.
absence of prepared airstrips in beachhead citadel in southern-
the British Empire, a Knight of old Australian Frunk sedman They were beautiful planes of South Korea-part from those most Korea.
Now, don't let me depress you Grace of the Order of St John, has been one of the glories of the gleaming silver, armed with now in tho hands DI the Up to the moment it does not all too much though. There is and a Knight Commander of the tournament. rocket guns and extremely fast. Northerners and the primitive look as if the tempo of beach- plenty of stuff going in by sea, Order of King George Their pilots were slim, detez ness of those few.
Not only on the tennis court head reinforcements is kept arrive, and in sufficient numbers.
Those Thunderbolts mined young men.
may yet Greece.
hos the Empire triumphed. A Fels cannot Each man wore what looked them-and the U.S. air forca the North
operate from 'pace with the continued drive of they zight well turn tho tables evening clothes is resplendent, Carried off the Open golf chom
And the left lapel of his cuth African, Bobby Locke, Koreans. Hike a deification on his back. In Japan consists
These almost ex- Asiaties are showing none of the
But it is always a dangerous n patch of cotton, with clusively of jets.
with the pionship for the second year In either for the thing to change plans as the on state occasions, message in Korean, explaining
fearful respect
miniatures of the 12
Kuccession. Nor can the larger-size trans- attacking air force or American Pentagon has done.
medal who they were,
Even so, In case they port aircraft
which he won in the war, from
Surely these аге happy. were shot down.
on these ground troops which the Tokyo I'm glad they eld, strips. This means that all air experts had hopefully expected.
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