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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947,
The Despatches On The Malayan Campaign Have Been Withheld From Publication Though Prepared For More
217MOCHINA MAIL Than a Year In The Following Article, Harold Guard,
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London, July 25.
By Harold Guard
On February 16, 1942 when were, according to War Office Malaya's
to
mun
of
approaches.
coastline and all
about 100,000 figures,
on the Island gathered Singapore was surrendered
Gallant Gamble the Japanese, curtain. dropped Singapore by the morning of
The sinking of the two capital on one of the most tragie and February 3., On the night of confused phases of the last war February 8 about 5,000 Japan. ships alone was proof of Japan- and has not yet been raised, cao: made a lodgement, on the e air mastery. Their torpedo An element, of mystery northwest corner of the stand bombers attacked at will, un- shrouds official dispatches on and were gradually reinforced molested because no air cover
who was Commander-in-Chief been landed."
two
the Malays Campaign compiled by landings from other points was available when the
on their SIR ALEXANDER
by Field-Marshal Lord Wavell until perhaps 30,000 men had battleships ventured
"gallant gamble!" with the GRANTHAM
Far East at the time of the sur- This version led to statements Weather, to engage the Japanese
news son forces." Yesterday's abominable weather render; Air Chief Marshal Sir in British and foreign
Malaya's puny air strength could make no difference to the Robert Brooke-Popham, Wavell's papers the 100,000 British had
placed the. sincerity with which Sir Alexander predecessor: Lieut-General A. surrendered to 30,000 Japanese, (my own records
The official dispatches should total number of serviceable air- Grantham was welcomed, as it E. Percival General Officer were, back into the fold. At few Commanding Malaya and other repudiate the suggestion that a craft at 103 at the outbreak of Hudsons and Brewater Buf- periods in the Colony's history commanders of the Navy and superior British force surren, war and the beat of these were Air Forces concerned with the dered to an Inferior enemy could there have been an occasion defende of Malaya..
force. Facts recorded on the falos) was rendered ineffectual when the guidance of a Governor
The dispatches have been in spot, when the Japanese effect during the first hours of the
battle on December 8. Singapore well acquainted with the Colony, the hands of the Government 'ed the landing on
For the ensuing 70 days the its peculiarities, its inconsistencies for more than a year and ques- Island; show, in the first place! Parliament and its fixations, was set at a long In
and the that far more than 5,000 Japan Malaya defonders were pracu- higher valuation. His Excellency national press have sought an ese were used in, the initial cally without a striking force
Three divisions were takes office, therefore, with the explanation of the Government's' assault.
relcase used and there were others in warnest goodwill, assured apparent reluctance to
reserve. At least 30,000 were of
cordiality which is them for publication.
Survivors of the rank and file used for the actual landing on given to lew Governors automati- cally as they enter upon adminis in Malays are voicing the con- a concentrated front of about reative leadership of this Colony: tention that in all fairness to 10 miles along the northwest Sir Alexander comes back, after those who fought in Malaya it la coastline of Singapore Island. an absence of thirteen years, with high time the dispatches were an impressive record of "achieve-made public. There is no excuse ment in other Colonies, culminat for withholding them
common
longer."
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Argyll Losses
the air and their Intelligence was blinded through lack of nir reconnaissance.
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CARNIVAL
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DOWN, SAT İY NKA BERVICE, 010, 7. 14. RED, LE & PAY, "OFF.
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"With the apartment situation what it is, how can wỗ
miss having a sellout?”/
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
Thus, gripped and battered the Malaya defenders 'struggled according to Mr. Churchill's re against impossible odds while, corded speeches "a ceaseless The War Office assessment Island can be said to be equally Russla and the Middle East flowed to sustain the armies in of 100,000 British Forces on the stream of ships from Britain any misleading and inaccurate be
It included the total and top-priority appeals
that beat the contract. Ho ing in the Governorship of Fiji, -It is known that the dis- cause
HELP HIM TO
played the 10 When the heart thereby setting our expectations patches have been referred to the military strength with all adequate defences, which ac before the war started, remain-
SCORE IT.
Q was lod thon from dummy, somewhat higher, but nevertheless governments of Australia and auxillary and non-fighting ser cumulated from Malaya long In the "pending" files at War,
WHENEVER you know your East played the Jon it and sure of every sympatliy and sup-India and that they have been vices and units as well as the checked heavy numbers incapacitated by
Office.
partner has a scorcable low Weet won with the A. Now port, furtified by the knowledge circulated among and
War Cabinet parlance dos- card for a trick-taker against West led his third spade, the that the Colony is also satisfied and re-checked by the various the heavy fighting down the
cribed the Malaya Campaign as the hostile No Trump contract. to. the Q, establishing his own that in giving its confidence in un Ministries concerned, but there full length of the Peninsula.
one of the "most spectacular your duty is usually to help him 6 as a winner. When the next will be has been no definite assurance measure, it
disasters to befall British arms" score it if you can. That means heart was led from the dummy, abundantly justified in the result that they will be made public.
it with the 9 and No Explanation An example of these losses and officially, the curtain drop aiding him to regain the loud. Wost won It is not an easy task that Sir
Mr. Frederick Bellenger, is recorded by the Argyll and ped on the spectacle of the Bri- using any devices you can for cashed the spade 6 to beat the Alexander undertakes. He in Secretary of
zolar one-level-too-bigh contract: Stato for War, Sutherland Highlanders Second fish commander carrying the the purpose, sometimes
was at fullwhite flag of Burrender to to the extent of playing your After the deal, Fast refused herits a not altogether comfortable answering a question in Parlia- Battalion which
on Japanese General Tomoyuki own honor cards deliberately on the compliments of a kibitzar legacy from the immediate past:ment in June this year, gave no battalion strength of 800
and December 8 but numbered lesa Yamashita, the
"Tiger problems explanation for the delay many and difficult
of those of the declarer so as to saying his correct, play was ob-
unblock some lower cord which vious in that situation.. crowd ahead. The important remarked that it was hoped than 100 by the time they reach- Malaya."
be pub-ed the Island.
The Japanese victor has since your partner may hold. constitutional changes just an- the dispatches would
In Hongkong, in 1988, Colonel been hanged
S Q J D nounced will call for skilful lished in the Autumn."
Ohira (Later Licut criminal for condoning crimes Prompted by the re-marshall- Hideo handling before a smooth-running
the ing of facts recorded during the General) of the Japanese War against humanity during his from machine emerges manoeuvring and manipulation. 70-day battle in Malaya and College at Tokyo, told me that military campaigns, but the ot full curtain must soon rise, agala re- The acute housing shortage will subsequently in Java, Australia a Japanese division
and India, the first explanation strength numbered 30,000 men.vealing the defender of Malaya; Involve heavy responsibilities in that comes to mind for the Gor The British War Office patiently waiting for the-day decision and policy. Income tax ernment's action is that the dis-assessment of Japanese strength when official records will vindi D712 or its local equivalent—will{ patches could constitute a throughout the campaign never cate the traduced defendora and C1094 rear its head as an Important direct challenge to War Cabinet's exceeded three divisions which, prove that the Singapore sur- issue, particularly the reform appraisal of the Malaya Cam-at full strength, approximated render was not an Ignominous
military dofcat-United Prena, of the constitution will strengthen paign as revealed by publica-90.000.
The official dispatches should, the authority of the Unofficial tion of Mr Winston Churchill's
sions" of Parliament.
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Chinese party politics play a role
Secondly, facts recorded in lines of communications troops, divisiona in the Colony today in a manner Java and Australia Indicate that At the outset, these
South Went North East having no counterpart during the the official dispatches could were at full strength, which
Pass
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Pass tour of duty commencing Sir Justifiably seek to stress the brings the total nearer to 150,000
Washington, July 20,
Pass 3_H Pass Alexander's administrative carrer, achievement rather than the whereas the British--and--Im-Tho-U.S. Sonate-has passed and 2 D
Pasa 4 NT condition which will not long failure in Malaya by an overall perial forces combined strength seat to the White House a bill 3 NT
North and South were not 14
310974 escape His Excellency's review, appreciation of the effect, on at no time exceeded 100,000. Perhaps even more, formidable is the whole war in the Far East, In New Delhi, i March 1942, at of Americans captured by the using any artificial slam con-
ventions. The 4-No Trumps HAJ 04: the question of civil service pay or Malaya holding out for ten Field Marshal Wavell spared Japanese.
Certain tax exemptions were was meant in its natural sense.
mild reach toward a slam D7 and conditions, a matter which is weeks when the Japanese had; no words.
assembled their best troops, "We were not ready for war granted to United States citizens as likely to emerge as a critical issue best leaders and best equipment in the Far East," he declared, who lived in the Philippines or which South refused.
Went led his spade 2, East very soon now with the publica for the attack on Malaya.
"We could have made ourselves other US possessions, but this tax. tion of the report of the Salaries
Thirdly, the dispatches should ready only by taking forces exempt status was lost when they winning with the A and return- Commission: The
acute die reveal that Britain was not pre- from places Immediately threa- were captured by the Japanese ing the 8 to the K. South led content that prevails in the Police pared in any aspect of her Fartened or by withholding from and transferred to prison camps the heart 8 to dummy's K. To most average players it woută Force has already been dealt with Eastern defences which Russia those supplies which in Japah, Korea and China.
(Dealer: East. East-West vul The Senate on Thursday res: be obvious that East should nerable and 40 part score.) extensively in these columns, but denuded to fulfill undertakings enabled her to stage her great dissatisfaction does not begin and to Russin and to bolster a waver recovery...Circumstances com tored this status which the Fin play his 8 on this trick, Not so.
What bidding would you pelled us in a move aimed at ace Committee pointed out had however, to this chap. He did end with this branch of the public ing line in the Middle East.
lost fat the point of a some lightning reckoning first favor in this part-score situa service:
the saving Malaya, to put into the there are substantial Fourthly, according to
and came up with the answer tion? elements of disharmony in most record of events in Malaya, both fold troops with little or no bayonot."--Associated Press. every sphere of activity that will before and during the campaign, training at jungle warfare and the dispatches. should make reinforcements available were exact every ounce of sagacity and mention of difficulties confront trained for an entirely different understanding, judgment and dis- ing effectual Civil Administra kind of warfare in the Western crimination, if a happy solution is tion due to
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to be found.. It is becoming relations between the various clearer daily, too, that another Federated and Unfederated turning-point in the Colony's Malay. States. material progress is rapidly ap Common Error proaching. The days of quick Mr. Winston Churchill on returns and high profits which record as having told a "secret accompanied Hong Kong's com session" of Parliament; ""There paratively rapid return to peace,
good order and prosperity, are
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Paces
Southampton, July 25-
Desert."
Mastery Of Sea That, the Japanese had com, plete mastery of the sea and in the air during the Malaya Cam paign is indisputable.
the Far Facts recorded in East from as far back as 1081 leaves, no doubt; but that the Japancas Incursion at Pearl Harbour was as great a' disaster to Whitehall as it was to Washington.jp
At least since 1985, when the British Far Eastern Fleet was rushed to the Mediterranean to ment. Mussolini's threat of war. with the invasion of Abyssinia, the British pattern; of defence
than wits and opportunism. The long-term effect of such a process of accommodation to new and more solid standards cannot be otherwise than beneficial, but the The "Queen Mary Britain's in the Pacific was based largely immediate, repercusions on the luxury liner which' transported Colony's economy may easily more than 750,000, troops dure on a sort of "gentlemen's agree hamper progress,
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Navy, As the British fleet: revenues, at a time most incon on her final trials on Thursday moved out units of the United venient to the Administration before resuming the trans-States Asiatle Squadron noved In having to meet these and killed Atlantic passenger service July Into British harbours such as problems, as they come, Sir Free from a complete refit Hongkong and the State De- Alexander Grantham begins with ting that took nearly year, partment was quick to label the tremendous advantage of past the 81,235 ton Cunard Liner, those moves he "routine knowledge" and past friendships,|| surpassed in size only by the
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