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ARCTIC AIR

It has been no secret that the United States Air Force has been giving intense attention to the Arctic. So it is not surprising to have it announce that American combat planes can fly anywhere) in the Arctic in any season. For Some who know the northern ASIADOS this may ใน hard tu Tulieve. One reconnais satice squadron has flown 1,8),- 200 miles there in the last year, however, so the U.S. Air Force experience behind its

lats aumle claim.

This track is anowbound impassable from late October un till early Mny. Thus Gilgit is India for five, if not six, months sealed eff from bath Kashmir and

New Delhi. 1 Gilgit is reached from Srinagar, tribesmen. This is a propagandá An ominous point aboul the Kashmir's capital, only by a 14-story invented by Indian news- break-down ef the Big Four day inarch along Conference is that, apart from múle-track.

a precipitous papers to hide the fact that the bartliloned Germany, the British

Gilgitte have risen solldly

and Commonwealth is the only one of

Pakistan, and spontaneously and declared for the Western Powers which has a common frontier with Russia.

You may well nak where this frontier Is. It is in Gilgit Agency. In year. which Iles on the southern slope of the Roof of the World at the point where three Empires, the Russian, the Chinese, British, meet.

and the

Valley Of Decision

There a

R

snow-free route

through Chitral and Swat Into Pakistan; there is als H 50W- free route Into Sinklang.

narrow strip

Major Brown, originally owing the Agency for Pakistan, with a allegiance to Kashmir, now rules Pakistan observer to help him. It is one of those strange case, where a man con expect elther a high decoration or court-martial for high treason!

Indian theory is that Gilgit can What is to happen now? The walt til the Kashmir dispute is

It is a for cry from Germany to Tartary, and many may doubt that a quarrel In cne could have repercussions in the other.

To the north-west "Gilgit is led, then the Agency can be Experience hus shown, how.ctually divided from Soviet Tur-reconquered. I have heard this overy that if Russia is brought to kestan by a

emphasised by both Indian sol- a full stop ch one of her frontiers Afghanistan,

diers and by statesmen. she wast's no time stabbing her toes, but switches pressure in totally different direction.

After the fasen over Germany, Scandinavia, Greece, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, China might folle me up for notice,

Wide Open

Gilgit. 16,000 square miles of mountain country to the north of wild and Incredibly beautiful Kadmir, is a push-over, Theagh the Agey ram trule rutes from Turkestan to both India and Pakistan.

For this reason, Gilgit has been

called the back-dor to India, and by an astonishing piece of folly this summer here in Delhi, the ร้าง been left wide

can ber

Were this strip mountain To wait, or to start a military range, in a land of 20,000ft, high drive against Gligit would not ponke, afl might be well. But they be unrealistic, it would be

trip is nothing of the sort; it is a madness. similow valley which er ssed anywhere

In the first place the Gilgiti any time of the proverbial two men and a boy are a resolute fighting race, and year, in a day's march.

Things might be in

could hold the f1 pretty

Gilgit-Srinagar pass in Gilgit today were it not

intile-track at a dozen points. for the presence of two British Army leers, Major Willamcursion into Gilgit would un Br wn, Commander of the Gilgit Kohistan to the south, the Swatis doubtedly pull in the Pathans of mind, Capt. A. S. Mathieson. Sentits, and his second-in-com- and the Chitralls, probably the Afghan tribes, and possibly even volunteers from Slukiang.

the

On the day Kashinir joined the Indian Union the Gilgits, who are ninety-nine p.in nine per cent. Moslem, declared for Pakistan,

In GBgit Sub-Division Scouts mutinied and refused to obey the orders of the Indian Governor appointed by Kashmir's Maharajah. They joined the local inhabitants in inving towards the Politically, Gilgit Agency con bazaur with the Intention sists of ten tribal divisions. These massacring the 200 odd Hindu kinned, industrious, and proudly Tribesmen are handsoine falrand Sikh traders there. independent.

back-cour

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the

of

In the second, on Indian army

In the opinion of many sober people here, Mr. Attlee shoul shed his reluctance to Interfere in Indo-Pakistan affairs and Inform Pandit Nehru that for the security of all involved, and that include: the Commonwealth, Gilgit mukt he left to Pakistan,

She, unlike India, run at least sure uninterrupted, all-the-year- roum, contrally-guided adminis- tration.

The Thin Edge

| CARNIVAL

By Dick Turnar

"When I call you that, smile!”

~Disk harner

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"

AVOID THEIR LONG

SUIT

But one must wonder why the claim is put forward just now. is il tu influence "a certain | comntry" that lies on

Mojor Brown not only stopped the other

the Scouts but persuaded them to side of the Arctic? Or is it to In the past there has been fre- escort the Indians to a place of reassure anyone-such as waver quent internecine warfare, but in safety. He then sent a party of Mr. Attlee could balance mat- ing nations

niy in Europe-win

part of the Agency Scouts up the hill to guard the ters by strongly advising Mr. known as Glight Sub-Division Governor. might be uncertain aboot Ameri- tenth of the whole,

Jinnah that British political of- has

The Governor panicked, barri.cers be restationed in the Agency. can power? Or is it only to win sucir ever been acknowledgest, and opened wild fire on the party. sent state of Insecurity and in- suzerainty of the Maharajah of caded himself into his Residency,

In a sizeable

number of cases. public support for

If things are left in their pre- further Air

where South was the declarer, West Force experiments in the region? to hand over the whole of the clerk who had been sent to reason edge of the Soviet wedge to be chosen for the opening lead against because he did not want to give the

The fully of this summer was He killed two Scouts and a Hindu stabilly we can expect the thin

disliked feading away Of all the suits which might be homes in spades, hearts and cluse

Iron! The U.S. Air Force has two Agency to Kashmir. Possibly a

hin with him. good reasons for its interest in mistake was made and Gilgit Again Major Brown stepped in,

driven into the Empire.

a high contract of No Trumps, the derinrer the North.

The ten Gligit tribes have been ane to be avoided usually is

era gratuitions face. When Military planners Agency confused with Gilgit Sub- brought the Governor

thea diamond wess chosen for that rea- to his knocked off their balance by the longest shown by the declarer always draw their charts in rela-

Division.

senses, and had him conducted to events of this year.

*།" so it should never have be the protected camp. He is now would be easier for

hison, South of course romped home, Nothing partner. That is especially su tion to potential dangers. Since curred, for a number of British safe and well.

ifgring 12 tricks in asme The Governor's versive agents than to

clever sub that it had been bid by the haul 13 in others.

.

cases and no other country is in any posi-politicul officers with great ex victims provided the only blood tribe against another again.

sch one which clearly is the weaker of the One declager was tion to attack the United States, given carnest and repeated warn that Gilgit has been overrun and waters in which Russians delight away from an honour in some other first of all that a diamond trad would

perlence of Gilgit had previously spilled in Gilgit.

set two tricks, military plans are naturally con- ings. These were ignored,

wo. A lead of that suit is nearly where M. G. Murray, a csuny com It is absolutely untrue to say thus be created

In no time at all there would always the one which the declarer petitor, wat in the East with cerned with defence against, and

the troubled would prefer. Fear about leading partner opposite him who decided occupied by Swati and Chitral to fish, counterattack upon, Russia. More-

sutt should almost never strer you in be the must terrible he could contrive. over, the air over the Arctic;

so starting that which the decinrer le rd the heart would be the most direct line of

2. Mr. Murray's operations in any conceivable con-

Qwinning the 10. Refusing to aid the declarer, he returned his heart flict with Russin.

5. South frantically tried to sils own hand wtih

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Over The Border

its and it is a known and un- The Gilgitis despises the Kash- surprising fact that in Gilgit Sub- Division, as in all other of the Maharajah's outlying districts, past Kashmiri administration, has

The U.S. Air Force does not accept the view of some of the diplomats that war between Rus-bien bath indolent and corrupt.

kia and the United States would

be like war between a tiger and

a shark. It believes each coun

-

where things can be allowed to Gilgit is not the sort of place slide.

PERCIVAL

FILL IN

General This fact was reallɛed by

Province

London, Jan. 29.

DESPATCHES THE GAPS

to the outbreak of war, was fully Percival's Malaya di cognisant of Japan's ultimate inten-

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the British when, in 1945, we patches, which will be published in tinn to declare war on both Britain leased Gilgit Sub-Division from mid-February, will fill in the blanks and the United States. War was de try can get at the other very the Maharajah for a period of 60 left in Sir Robert Brunke-Popham's tually expected to commence la 1939 sharply through the air-the years.

and Geo, Malthy reports Arctic air.

and but was towarted by Germany's num- The pressing urgency for this

a final crashing amwer to aggression pact provide a It has been jokingly remarked' move Visit that НЕГОБУ the the harsh critics

with Kuvia of both the long-August of that year, that the U.S. Air Force is con- begun steadily to

northern border Russians had kong and Singapore defenders,

infiltrate into cerned because Russia has 12 bis Sinklang

An appraisal of the official dis Meanwhile, Britain's Far Eastern of Chinese patches Thus bombers and the United States Turkestan.

far confirmed Ciel defences were denuded; 1. by Mur Archibaut Wavel's declaration has only 1,200.

un solini's Mediterranean threat in 1915 With Gilgit's northern tribe, the March This may be un-Hunzas, related to southern tribes were not prepared in any aspect for With the outbreak of war with Kier-

1942 in New Delhi, "We when Italy invaded Abyssinia, fair. It does not accurately meas- of Sinklang, there

was every war in the Far East." sure comparable forces. And, of reason fear, that infiltration The ufficial reports tend to blame.

many la 1939. course, the U.S. Air Force must might continue over the frontle the ineffective British intelligence

The British intelligence reportedly to the south. keep up 1 plane-building pro- With a British political officer to Japan's real intentions,

and officialdem's turning a blind eyefully all Japanese perparations, en- programine, But in view of the controlling Gilgit Sub-Division

phasizing that the Japanese that American and exercising parampuntey over

China was largely combat planes can operate in the the Agency as a whole. things I was

มิย claborate camouflage to disguise the those which used the Blackarood con Aretic at any

speedily fell into shape,

able to reveal, however, real Japanese strength. British intel.enti season Americans

A force of 000 ne will want much more

fighting the British Government, long prior of Japanese war preparations,

the highest authority, thasgence reports covered every aspect South held and of the aces. evidence men, the Gilgit Scouts, was rais

new assurance

to

on the strength of Russian aired and led by British officers. An airfield was Ironcd out among

power before they crawl into Gilgit's rocks and boulders,

their cave.

100 Years Ago

(From the files of the "Chisa Mail")

The Agency thrived under an ero of irrigation schemes and agri- cultural planning. If suspected infiltrators arrived, as many did, there were

efficient ways and means of dealing with them.

The decision of August 15, which meant the recall of British

political officers and the handing

muster.

reason for

Exur

They Knew agains

Helping Hand From America

view of

of

NT + NT 6 NT

This deal gos bil many different C. K 3 ways in the inaugural Championships in Miami, with practically all large shares of the pairs got intim &- Florida's top-liners participating. A No Trumps, including some war North curbid his hearts as well aecable).

in-

cluding detailed reports from Yay, Truk, Farma and Hainan bland. The British War Office decision was to embark on a campaign of decep tion aimed at advertising fictitious

British strength in the Far East

"Operation D"

to

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What odds would West be giving

to learn that North, and that he would set South, a trick if he

doubled 6-Ilearts?

Washington's Lot Is

Not A Happy

Happy One

it

theberen

of fective measures so that rising in Socialists are

Nation does not undermine the

munism.

Cheaper

has

Com-

Under "Operation D (for Decepton must have appeared chaotic to vast scale, but with new concep Recent developments in Washing are dealing not only with stems on Washington, Jan. 31. tiva)", Hongkong was evolved into any new visitor, bat at the end of tions and ideas as startling and new over of the entire Agency to A special House Foreign the Gibraltar of the For East. it form and substance have begun and as large as the sums involved. Kashm coincided with a fresh Affairs sub-committee reported! The impregnability of wave of Soviet infiltrators into in a survey today that United stressed and the arrival of any

Singapore to emerge, The Administration's lot The United States of Europe Sinklang.

States individuals and chari.

has been that of Gilbert's police always had an emotional appeal for The Orat

reinforcements wave had receded table

was publisited and man, it has been engaged on three Americans, and these sen see About the time of Stalingrad,

agencies were

magnified throughout the world. send-

from, two of them unhappily domes E.R.P. the beginnings of a co-opera- when Russla was forced to press ing more than $800,000,000, Intelligence personnel into service every man she could werth of relief supplies abroad police Special Branch were reported front in the "cold" war, while at

RIKL thr Abroad

live Entope and has touched fiel has maintained, its imaginations. annually outside the official to have been detailed on fifth column home it has been fighting for The present resurgence is almed Government programmes.

Ansilier

conception gaining ad- The three Chinese condemned at regaining the points helds in

strength long prior to 1941 when an European Recovery Programme on a

and capurring imaginations, The to death for piracy at the last 1942. It la in such strength that recommended that in

bi-partisam committee estimated more than 300,000 pro substantial scale and endeavouring of those testifying, is the idea of an Legislators asks scores of questions Criminal Sessions were hanged it has become advisable to move the large valume of private re-

Japanese Chinese were organized into persuade Congress to take ef- creating a third force in interna at West Point yesterday morn-back as far Hrumchi, in northern lief, all agencies in the field the British Consulate In Kashgar

aide Kowloon and Hongkong,

tional affairs ing.

to act both a buffer Sinklang.

Similar reports were dealt with in

From FRANK OLIVER should register

balance They seemed perfectly cool

with a

between Communist Not that we have bowed before Department committee so that was powerless to counteract and mili- State Malaya bug the British War Cabinet

Russia and capitalistir America. and resigned until placed upon political pressure; the

(Sunday Times and Kemeley Russians distribution could be supervised. tary reinforcements were made im-

It took the present hearings to get the scaffold when, in conse new threaten to cut the trade

Newspapers Special

formal In China,

emal statement from the routes which gave the Kashgar "American relief

Stalm quence of some gress careless- Consulate its main

the survey sold, possible by the British reversals in

Correspondent)

Department that European Socialism ness, the bolt was found to be existence.

has been the Mid-East plus commitments

is a bulwark against the suppression elther rusty or twisted, so that

handicapped

not only by the Russia

Individual liberties, and The danger in giving Gilgit to vastness of the problem but by

that it would not draw, and the poor Kashmir Hes not only in the in- the inability to move goods in praved that Operation D had

among the strongest wretches were kept standing for competent

The Intelligence workers, however, economy on which rests not only the bulwarks of Europe against administration more than 20 minutes with the can be expected, put in geogra-ly, into ports of entry.

that to the interior and, even recent-fectively

ef hope and future of Americans, but diverted the Japanese also of most people this side of the ropes around their necks, dur

trength. For example, the Japanese Iron curtain. ing which two of them fainted)

"Relief, therefore, has been used five divisions to attack Malaya ER.P. prospects have been fluctuat and had to be supported on the that it would be dragged

provided largely through the when two could have been ample. to transfer of funds for purchases.

Ing like quotations in the active

Thus with scaffold, until, every other plan pieces by the hangman, in his of goods in China, but the ax-

the "bargain rate" stock market, but the position now is argument that it cheaper to revive having been tried in vain, the desperate though unsuccessful change situation has

more hopeful than for some time. Burapean economy than to jaller went off to the Naval efforts to draw the bolt,

While it is essential to emphasise Americs appealing to some, and there Stores and returned with two)

restricted the effectiveness of The fictitious "chain of British ais- anything does now include the pos- groups of legislators, the hope

that anything can still happen, that other conceptions appealing to other this une of action - Current fields stretching through Burma, aibility of ERP, much as the Ad-growing that E.R.P, on the scale en hostilities between the Central Malaya and Borneo" which was ministration wants it until very revisaged by the White House and

1940 resulted in wide dispersion of night.

In State Department may go through. With whom the blams rests, precisely,

Tacaday next, at 11 o'clock am tary agencies to carry

portunity of American volun

The Marshall Pina will

definitely The most important factor in this go through, but the size of Its, ap our authorities are best able to Queen's Road-

Godowns, broad programme on a atable feet's strength similarly caused the fence, and the

on a Advertisements

welcome cliange was the testimony propriation cannot yet be used judge,

Eastern of Mt. Forrestal, Secretary of Deat. It is on that point that the com but certainly such neglect ought not to be over-

Secretary of War, Ing legislative fight will be concen looked, more capecially as ́A

Mr. Royall. Both are respected on trated. similar heldent occured at the

Gen, Percival's dispatches

Capitol Hill.

Bimultaneously with"_the_fight_for Morsellies, Jan. 31. execution of the six men in June

The task of Senator Vandenberg ERP, the Aduffabstention is seeking reveal, some aspects of this operation Over 2,000 Indochines workers "D", but the total British effort in on the Republican side, and Senator from Congress means of fighting in- last,

against the arrest of Tran Ngumu übless forelligence who yesterday struck in protest the Facile mat remain targely ing the majority in the Senate with the vasi quanilty of official docu

Barkley ou

en the Democratie, of swing:dation, Though it was rather lost in Danh, head of the permanent sonnel are permitted to revest the them, has been made esiler by Mr.ments and siatements issued during Vietnam (Indochinese National-ed the Japanese military aspirationis

full facts which" undeubtedly. 'retard- it in still uphill,

Forrestal's effective talking, though the week, the Prealdent lats dólagution the Fratory for nad probably shred - Australia frous

ast Scale aviadetrinimial to the inherits being overrun by the Japanser Rood

thie State of the Union", message. of-th8=7/tch = Ragublico, saded Infoediately after Bingapore-Walted of his shinking Genstur Vandesberg whether probleme i confreating the Tale makes rubrensela! contribu- Thehe" far cornmand in the range: tiene towarka guyhäkids, understanding amande out Among them rosé that they, United Scams (Monday-blown)

hammers by means of which,

after a deal of labour, the bolt

phical 'factora.

greatly

Fictitious

was forced from its socket, and will scil by public auction an orces seriously restrict the op the Japanese air, strength.

Mcasrs. Smith & Brimelow Government and the Communist headlined in the world press early in cently that possibility was bot

the platform fell.

at thoir

4 casks 12 dozen of Rum, 10 casks of Gin,.

2 crates 8 dozen of Rum Shrub,

1 caso 4 dose of Rum Shrub, 9 aides of Blood, 26 large Kegs of Butter -

We have heard it attributed to the old and rickety state of the gallows, and it is very prol-80 cases of Sherry, able that such may be the case,

10 pieces of Chinta...

as fears really were entertain. Alade v

A low canke of Butter...

ed" by "the", spectators yesterday.

baals."--United Press.

of the

Japanese Navy to healiate,

per-

Te-arm