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Jungle War Up-to-date
KUALA LUMPUR.
N the long cool "Ops" room at R.A.F. headquarters high above the shimmering strait at Changi, Singa- pore. Air Vice-Marshal "Tog" Mellersh, once n' Burma bomber chief and now Air Officer Commanding. Malaya, shows me a map which tells the story of his latest war.
It koks 1ke a large oval plate (which is roughly the shape of Malaya) and on it are two very large chisters of red curants, and also black currants, white currants and, if there were such things, orange currants,
Then there are smaller clusters, also mixed clusters, and many twos and threes, and al ringles.
These are pinheads on the map, and show what the BAF.. has been doing here for two years.
The different colours represent bombings, machine-gunnings, supply drops, patrols, and air troop moverments.
Lately new coloured currant appeared, the hoverplane rescues of wounded. They have made a modest but hopeful start. There are only three of these little Dragonflies yet, but atrendy you can realise what the service could become.
If you can cut or blast a clearing in the Jungle 70£t, wide, they can come down amid the tall trees and within five minutes you can strap a casualty in a pannier and have him away to n feld hepital.
Then the pairol can go forward 0 11 The bandit trail and not have to return bearing Wounde
comrade 0 17 their shoul- dern Ind stumblin through the undergrowth.
Tho it- tary Chin is
obvious. What
World Copyright. By arrangemist with Dally' #izraldaj
11 means in
Transformation at Clarence House
Official Residence
Becomes
my V.
NEW
a
Sackville – West
Home
Frank Owen Calie
the night mail train to Kuala Lumpur
saving of the human sweat and gers
civilians. are
Mother,
suffering inseparable from jungle father, and four or five children war cannot be counted. They Malay, Chinese, Indian.
can call them Dragonflies, but
me may live to bless them as angels.
But anyway all's calm, con- sidering.
cross
As night closes In from the My friend and I study this dark green wall of jungle and divkling map with special interest. Be- we
the stralt cause there
stem to be very Singapore island from the main- large helpings of all kinds of land, the lights are dimmed,
only illumiuution currants on the Kuala Lumpur and the part of the plate, which is the from pocket lump-size lights set
by the sile of the window- name on our railway Ucket.
open because of the aweltering, Perhaps this essentially Thu night inail to
suffocating heat, und covered human desire for the private Lumpur 18, 10 look at, just like only by a curtain, life. which must be ro ardently any other train-the one,
The lounge is filled with Sun- sought as a refuge by those who instance, that takes you to work
in Britain, and forth and Gurkha officers in full dwell habitually on the lonely every morning
home again at night: except for battle kit, mingled with white- heights of Royally, is exempthe number of sleepers, for it is coated British Malaya oficials bed by a close-up view of a long ride, 300 miles and 11 and businessmen, one Indian
table.
There are
Elizabeth's
writing hours.
Differences...
Kuata
For
woman in a purple sari, and one slender, very English girl. She wants the fan turned off-it- ruffles her hair, The officer
Palace, which ich fenders ever designed in busine:slike bottle of mim, but special permission is re- the train comes
the
A
are
minutes
In command of in every few
nn his rounds and chats, but never stays to drink. the trouble, lt at the bar, Officers off duty, but sulll near easually load their revolvers.
cits in a A sergeant-major
back to the curtained window, with a car- bine between his knees.
The Duke of Edinburgh's sitting ងៃ ៖ 1 k IN panelled
while Princess in Canadian marble, with bottle- wen carpet and curtains.
of their The murery
little
the usual furnish- is white is of inkstand, blotting book, end in Clarence Londoners
House rather, Prince Charles,
a Vase of flowers, have told you
where than transfer themselves to and blue, with a high fender in pon tray,
on of the fireplace like all matches, telephone, and a most
quired to travel, no speelal to fini Clarence St James's
forms except a passport, for you to dry the photographs are entirely House, before it came sud- was then the Sovereign's old-fashioned nurseries denly into prominence as official residence in London, things on, and also to prevent family altair. Her grandmother, pass a couple of State frontiers
on the way to KL toddler from falling into her mother, her sister in A the London home of Prit
in There
three slight kaging snapshot, her son. St James's Palace was not the fire. cess Elizabeth and the Duke
three differences from a British trai corner, with his there, and le cot are The kitchen, needless to say, photographs of the Duke of of Edinburgh. It adjoins Stage, as Royal poluces ge, and King William complained
une of them taken The pilot engine with a James's Palace, and stands the westly that he and the most modern and up-to-date, Edinburgh.
with stainless steel tables and cluring World War II when a "crash wagon" runs a quar- unpretention-ly hidden away then found at the sinks, a gas cooker, an electric square beard made him loofster of an hane ahead. That Is 3111
side strest by oblused
years okler. The in care bandits blow up the books, papers, etc. out of their Pastry oven, and a canopy of about ten
glass and steel to carry away Chippendale table #zelf IR track or a bridge as they did for levies 90 square cream-coloured
ritting rooms structure, dignified in its and drawing room becne the heat and fumes. It is necessarily handsome and serviceable, with the other night. quiet way, which you cur- Preys are wanted." They there her an elaborate kitchen, for large drawers and plenty of tainly would not take for as, using St. James's Palace Royal dwelling, were it not as far official receptum, with for the presence of a sentry a communicating passage be in the scarlet tunic of the tween the two bitildings. Brigade of Gharida.
Lonchem houses do not run
to move afl
fare remained at
Clarence
Not Pompous
sou".
young couple, however elbow room-the table of a busy
simple their personal tastes Inny woman.
e, are in the perition of having
to entertain not only their per
ronal friends but distinguished No Ostentation
visitors from many countries.
HE
Then the driver ran bravely NO down the line, Bring. Very simak to warn the train of the breken bridge. Now the tilal engine is linked with the male train by radio and the train linked to jungle stations.
Protty fine
TOBODY talks about this
war-it's all Desert, Nor- mands". Italy, Burma. One young oficer, landed from the troopship Lancastria, and Just joined his regiment, has no war ribbon. He writes to his girl in England.
Thin placid Chinese barmon and waiters pad softly around as the swenting train rolls and rattles
through the Malayan
drenching rain that hurls like
at
1, now made tumultuous by you walk at the track
Thus. upstairs, apart from
Armoured cars are bolted on their Royal Highnesses sitting Duke's sitting room, with rooms, there must be a drawing sofas and chairs covered flat trucks at either end of
such recrp 100m suitable for to very great size, compared
in leather, and a bookense let the train. Their Bren guns ore This is a double room, Into the panelled walls, is more lourden. with, say, the palazzi in any AFTER some years of occupa- tiot....
IN Queen Victoria's connected by a pair of Corin- revere, as befits a man's room. Italian
l'aris ta city, an in Clarence House would rank other, the Duchess of Kent, thian columns and the general There are no photographs an 2 The armed escort of 20 or
ig Chrace House was given over effect
36 roldiers, some in every of myster-grey and spare desk of Canadian
some unexplained halt at no higher than an inel hotel is then to one of Queen Vir- Ivory, with some pale gilding ample, and the lung is a very coach. It the train is attacked
poired all come into action. particulier." Yet this is now förla's
Nowhere to see the truck guard. Prince Alfred, the mouldings of the ceiling, moder-looking ample [ Edinburgh another, a colour scheme which is re- contraption, such as you might
This train IS attacked--that
The trainlond is only a frac the residence of the Heiress bete
sitor prince, and at his death peated in the curtains of grey But in any city office.
sa dilference, too, frem yutir tion of soldiers. The rest i Presumptive to the Throne. 1000 it was taken over by his and gold brocatelle,
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half year there made up To up, you might say rain. This
of ordinary peace- A full description of the Fringest brother, the Duke of
that implferty and good taste have been about, 20 attack loving, peace-yearning families house and its history is Commandat
1942, on the
ere paramount, with a complete which averages one every ten who can be blown up, derailed. Duke of Co-
bombed, given by Christopher Hussey trath of the
absence of fuss or ostentation, days, or nights.
or sulped al, bi any Tought, it was handed over by called
why alongside the hour. in his new book
King George VI to the Rel
They behave just as out own "Please do not These young people, it must be That is
familiar notice "Clarence House," published Cruss and St John of Jerusalem que centre of the room is left admitted, were fortunate in the lean out of the window" is an- folk did in the blitzed and
in which more or less empty, so thai
wedding presents they received
dest, machine-gunned trains by Country Life which also as their headquarters,
ather, and, continued until 1917. quests may move about freely.
from number contains
of the it
their personal Irlendis,
it is not only in Engilsh, but late war. when it wa announced from hul in front of the Areplace we and Buckham Palace that "Clar fad the rame typically English lands. Not to all of us are given languages Malayan,
their relations, and from many also in Malaya's other three again. coloured and black white photographs.
enre Houre had Leen selected grouping of armchairs and a such beautiful glass chandeliers, and Tainik;
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in the laughin'cot lovin' ever from Warner Bros.
The Lady Takes A Sailor
Commencing To-morrow
sion.
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Quiet Room
ane
yet considerable dignity.
unillic the
Chinese,
WARNING:STERNORISM
In the ovent of firing on the side of the lina, passenger dvited to lid on the flear and in no circumstances
"to"Joava the "traini.
as the future ofluit home of feta. In fact, the whole houss
such exquisitely designed 18th HRH Princess Elizabeth and gives an impression of a most Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, homogeneous taste, with its anix century chairs and tables, such decorative Aubusson carpets; lure of dignity and comfort, its pale colouring, its happy.com but this alone would suffice. It is spacious but not pom- bination of royal stateliness and
You require niso the taste to CLARENCE House has for
ports, The rooms are large, but a private home.
arrange them in such a way as long been a Royal posses- they are nol over-furnished,
I la characteristic thin one to display thern to their best name and they are certainly comfer- reum should be known to Priu- advantage, It takes its
and for this you from Prince William Henry, table in the English tradition. cess Elizabeth and the Duke of need an eye for colour, a sense
"The 03
Quiet of space, and a gift for turning created Duke of Clarence in There are deep, chintz-covered Edinburgh
armchairs and soft sofas, shaded Ruam." Royalty must indred an official resklence into Jungle, is less than six feet off. 1790, Inter King William IV, fights, radio sets, television and long to escape from publicity, home. Princess Elizabeth and Easter than lobbing a bomb at a suilor prince even as the radiograros. big writing tables, military bands and checring her gay, young sailor bride the last midnight tram to Brix
The crowds. and family photographs.
in this Here, of Edinburgh is a Duke
room groom are cvidently possessed to from the shadow colours are clear and light and darkly panelled in the beautiful of tils taste, and have turned bankment Gardens. sailor prince today. Even
young.
Australian jarrah wood, they the solemn. solid, Victorian after his accession this King
The walls in Princess Eliza- must find a welcome relief from Clarence House Into a home Get aboard. Al's quiet. That AT 2.30, 5.30, and his Queen, Adelaide, beth's sitting room are painted the glare and blare of their again - light, clear, bright, is, al's not strictly "quiet."
for nine-tenths youthful and happy. 7.30 & 9.30 preferred to continue living, in a pale green aquamarine. public lives,
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It is only too ensy when the
of Em-
of the passen-
in the
It's pretty fine to see
Six more
MIDNIGHT, and all except tho
train crew
and the guard or dreaming. Tho are dozing rain beats down like the roar of the sea, and this moving, living thing rattles on lato the storm.
All is quiet-tonight, But as we walk out with our
it at Kuala Lumpur, & news- Paper placard reminds us "Six More Bandits Hanged. Total 100 Now,"
That's Use breakfast-time score,
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