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EMPIRE UNITY

The initiatives that have been taken by prominent Australians in an effort to establish Empire unity in the concrete terms of close consultation and mutual assistance in the economic crisis threatening the United Kingdom are buth stimulating and warm- ing. But the ray of light they throw in this age of crisis will be dissipated unless there is furth coming a more active response from the United Kingdom Gov

erminent.

Lord Bruce's suggestion in the House of Lords last week, that a Council of British Nations be formed with its own Secre maintain the closcat

tariat to

liaison between all the members of the Commonwealth, received poor

although encouragement, nothing could be more logical.

be hoped therefore It is to that a better fate will hefall the plens of Sir Earle Page and Mr. Menzies, visualising a conference amung Commonwealth countries to discuss ways and

means

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1948.

That There Remains Much To Learn About The Art Of Modern War Was Demonstrated By

OPERATION

SNOWDROP

Striking south from Alaska. the invaders had overrun Canada and 1,000 square miles of American New England.

From blitz-proof headquarters In Washington came the order. | for 100,000 ̄U:9% paratroopa ti

ind ehind enemy Ines a seize an "airhead" from the weatherwise foe, entrenched in the deep snow.

Says JAMES BROUGH

The paratroops dug hollow n the snow, rolled themselves

forlined sleeping-bags, and] duzed while frost whitened their aye-brows, Few free were allow That was the theory behind a cd, for the "enemy" was close baltic that targbfounded the vity. Thermometers reglatered 47 lagers and infuriated the gen egrees below freezing.

rais in bleak, ice-bound New York State last week. No mednis were awarded for guessing the identity thekers.

of the supposed

A Walk-Over

And the only conclusion Washington's brass-hats enn reach now is that if the mock fighting had been reality it would

A Roar-Over

trunks of their cars, through formhouse backdoors, into wood- sbeds. A few moments lator! these citizens of Carthage, NY.. had the surprise of their lives. From the same gift-bearing sky catne a voles of wrath,

For Liut-Col. Wiliam A.C. Collingwood; Pritiel War Office observer, at was as exciting as werd a fox-hunt. As ROOD AN came in by radla that the supply

drop

had fallen wide of Ita ninik, Colons Robert Wienecke, Snowdrop's C... grabbed Col lingwood, and they were off in In the morning a real, live, Sikorsky helicopter. 'Ofth column" harassed the They pled a fleeing villager weary soldiers. Even big Army [stuff à handle into his car and: planes roared over Exercise speed down the slippery high. Sueworop, pushing out 90 para way. Wienecke jutted down the chutes, beneath which dangled cence number.

supplica, petrol foud, medical and ammunition (simulated).

An over-cager jump-master in

A Hand-Over

He spotted a second driver have been a walk-over leading Fairchild "flying for the Russians.

bex-car" starter shoving supdragging a cupply package to General Jacob L. Devers, com.plies out of the aircraft's door ward his car. "Put that back!": standing in inuading the U.S. Army ground 20 seconds and four miles too roared Wienecke

AUDI). Bewildered villagers his sent, polating an accusing forces, could scraple up a meri

for this

float finger from an altitude of 15f). 500 troepa

Exercise watched military mantia

out of heaven. It was too good) Says Hanson Baldwin, veteran Snowdrop.

military correspondent of the a chance to miss.

In a stinging snowstorm, they New York Times: . "Major bundled the packages into the changes in the fuchnique of air. barne operations are essential.. The exercise revealed the limited progress made in this country since the war and it indicated only a slight advance...In the specialise art of military opera tions in frigid climates."

There were no parachutes big through to carry the heavy zuna to beat off tank counter-offen- sves, Frost-nipped G. I. Joen dis-4 envered that skis must be waxed to be serviceable, that nobody can carry mortars and machine. guns on snowshoes,

But, with the cheeks nipped by the frost that crackled in the pinen, two companies seized two otow-shrouded hills which were

and devising a common technique for dealing with the financial crisis, or, as Sir Earle Page puta it, meeting the crisis which Eri tain caunot avert alone.

BAVARIA WANTS

FREEDOM

Munich, Feb. 22.. Bavaria wants "the same indo- pendence as Austria" and the

strengthening the British Copire their objectives and prepared to expulsion of 400,000 "Prusslans",

of the imagined enemy. defend them against the assault Dr. Joseph Bauheartner, a mem

ber of the Bavarian Christian Social Party Executive, said here As the light faded tempera-today. tutes fell. Five hundred men He called for reconciliation turned from a fight against with France and a "purge" theoretical Invader to a struggle the Bavarian press from "Prus- with a menacing killer-cold. in influence."-Reuter. Just living in the open taxed their full strength.

Such a conference would need wide terms of reference now that the countries of Western Europe with whom we seck union are involved..

There is little time to be lost. The Marshall Plan covers only! one part of the problem. The aid Europe may expect from America will be devoted to stabilising the economies of the countries of Western Europe but there is much more to be dune if these countries are not to stagger from loan to loan increasingly burden- ed with debiz.

Of these countries, France. Holland, Belgium, and ourselves

Not the least of the obstacies: to the calling of an Imperial

Conference has been the attitude] of some of the Dominions Gov- ernments. Mr. Chifley, has pooh-poohed Mr. Menzies's sug- gestion that a

conference was desirable. Canada is not over-i enthusiastic.

But is it not of great conse quence to Australia and the

India To Restrict Dollar Spending

New Delhi, Feb. 22.

of

India has agreed to restrict dollar spending from sterling area reserves under an agreement with Britain extending the financial pact of August

14 last until the end of June next.

In addition to this amount, communique adried, India will, course, have at her disposal her earnings of hard currencies.

the

Bank, is transferrable in Pakistan.

of

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100 Years Ago

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A Navy Fading

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

COPA TESTAM MEA SERVICE, DC. T, M, REG, U, IL FAT, OFF.

10-4

"I don't want to hear a word out of you tonight! The doc- tor says I'm missing my rost listening to you talk in your steep!"

The

Sinister Family

KRUPP

By Victor Lewis

He for

There are two histories of thesKruppa. His business methods House of Krupp. One is very were quite unscrupulous. dull. A four-hundred puga Hold ATTAR to friend and grey-green bound volume, it alike, "He cheated, swindled, tells dryly in figures and for- bullied or coerced his scientists mulse the story of the humble and workers until every MAN Essen back-atrect forge which who worked for him hated him. grow to be the great sprawling There was more than one acci- atcel and arms octopus on which dent in the Krupps workshops two men the Kaiser and Hitler in those years when von Bohlen Bri-broke their country. There in was passing through which, it officially-not a human pas- can now be said, were nothing Bage in the book.

jess than attempla to kill When Allied troops entered maim him" says this unofficial Essen-the city which is Krupp history).

Away

The operational strength of itsh naval squadrons abroad is now

smaller than considerably.

was revealed a few months ago. For in- stance, the British Pacific Fleet being reduced to the status division, and senior. naval afficers fear that Britain's almost total with drawal from China may lead to recrudescence of piracy from Biar Bay.

of

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-I found a copy of this book on the office desk of Alfried Krupp, now on trial at Nurem

berg. There was a packet of

Strike Leader

or

At the and of World War I cough lozenges on top and Gustav, to the unthinking, be Two aircraft carriers, two cruisers, gramophone, record of a Doonlit came a national hero because he a large minelayer serving in lieu speech underneath. But for led a strike movement against of a cruiser, and a number of des four pages I would have hurled French troops. He was sen troyers and sloops have already been the book into the bomb-dust tenced to 15 years in prison as withdrawn from Chins, and now the covered

a split ringleader..

corner where

fourth submarine florilla, consisting marble bust of Hitler lay on its her age summainen, is on its way face.

of five

home. Only two cruisers and four

or five small vessels remain on the station.

The

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

Krupp Skeletons

Drug Addict

"This was just another fake," says the Exsen script. "Gustav was just about to sell out a large part of the Krupp proper- A communique issued by the Indian As a result of the extension of the The East Indies Squadron includes

ties to the French. The strike are unly the metropolitan head-Ministry of Finance tonight said that, period of agreement, India will carry no more than two cruisers; the Wen

Heavy dark paper had been was merely a cover for his mean pasted over those four, of vast quarters

pages. activity." of the worldwide dollar forward the balance of the Number Indies squadron one cruiser and one territarica in in view

only per- Africa, the West Indies, and the shortage and the strain to which cen

One account, Including

a working loop, and the single cruiser in the They contained the

Gustav always maintained he tral reserves of the sterling area are balance of £30,000,000.

South Atlantic Squadron is return gonal references to the Krupp was not a Nazi. The pencilled Far East. We must face the being subjected, India has agreed to Out_of_this...... certain sum, to being to the United Kingdom shortly, family in the book. The Boas evidence-Bays: He joined the problem of developing these terrestrict net drawings on the central

tral determined according to

agreement Daly the Mediterranean Station re had ordered their deletion. They Nazi Party in 1989. His party ritories now and we must em-reverven to £10,000,000 in the cur-between India and Pakistan on the tain more than # token force. phasise to our brethren in the rent balf year.

division of the assets of the Reserve Here, the Fleet comprises two ligh: Were the skeletons in the Krupp membership card was found by

cupboard.

a laundryman in the breast Commonwealth that they, too;

carriers, four cruisers, 12 destroyers,

Ten days later, in the houser pocket of a discarded shirt.” An additional transfer of £18,000,- four submarines, and a few scott have a vital interest in this com

000 for India is being made imvessels.

of a minor Krupp official, I Gustav resigned from Krupps mon enterprise,

mediately from the Number Two ac The total strength of the British found the second history. It in favour of his son in 1943, count to the Number One account. Navy abroad is, therfore, only twen

was quite unofficial; thousands savs the official history. To cover her deficits in

des of pencilled words written on Unite amali carriers, 10 cruisers, 12 States dollars, India will seek per-troyers, four submarines and a small Krupp order-form tablets. The mission to draw from the Internation-number of cicart vessels. No battle- | many to whom I showed it were Says the unofficial" i history: al Monetary Fund any additional hips are in operational commission convinced that this was the Gustav was going mud. He amounts needed. Reuter.

Our Own Correspondent.

true inside story of the Krupp was taking drugs. He talked family, written by one who had too much when his brain wasn't been closely associated with working properly which was

aften. them for many years. This un-;

He called Goering a published history, was not dull. bloated idiot and Goebbels a It was the flesh on the Krupp stupid fawn; not to their faces, but in such a way as to make #keletons.

It reveals that the then certain Goering and Goebbels. richest girl in the world, the heard about it. He had just plump. unattractive Bertha enough sanity left realise жде beaten, and to On this tournament deal, the bid Krupp, worth £25,000,000 when Germany ding of diamonds instead of clubs her widowed mother died, tried quarrel with the Nazis so that he had no effect on the opening lead, to commit suicide, It should be as axiom that the which was a heart wherever a. Na and the world were given a glit war crimine),"

Germany would be able to say he was not, less the fees likely they about your Trump gaine was bid. But it count tering tale of ber hand, the less likely they are to nuled later on, in laffusncing the dis

romantic

Of the son, Alfried, the un- most damaging defenc

marriage to an obscure secre- named Essen "hlatorlan" wrote:: cards, against your contract. But plenty of

tary to the Prussian envoy at "He hadn't the father's brain; The heart Kwon the first trick, the players strain so hard to tell their the third-round spade was given up,

Vatican. This, and the but he had the same greed. He While Australia, Canada, and that

hated his mother and sent her entire story to their partners that the heart A scored and the next heart Goebbels of the day, was love. Palmerston gave they make things tough for

insulting letters. In the last - New Zealand are crying out for special orders that Steamer selves inter on. There is no way to won by the Q. South then ran two

few years before World War II immigrants, the lack of a sound should always be stationed at keep the other fellows from listening two discards, finally picked the club

Young Secretary more spades. East, distressed to find

It was Alfried who chemed the emigration policy and the flow of Canton, for the

of to

to the bidding conversation between and 8. That enabled South to rake It was nothing of the sort. building up of the Krupp arms the wrong type of man-power British subjects, in case of need the iwe members of your side. All in four club tricks with close and Bertha,

and after the lamentable occur the time they are trying to glean la- this score eleven tricks for top en brains to cope with the great cover schemes.

simple soul with no production with Ingealous under- are already producing chaos in rence in December 1847, which formation which can protect them the deal.

"He used to Krupp business, was madly in

brag in his Lip-service towards, an ideal of of always having a Stromer

proved so palpably the necessity against mistakes,

Wherever South opened the bid- love with young German office of how he was fooling Imperial unity, without positive the spot, I consider the removal

ding with 1-Club, or bid 1-Diamond

soldier. But the Kaler had everyone-even the Führer first and then his clubs"on the rebid, action, to promote it, will only of the 'Phiagethon' from her

East clung to four clubs when the different ideas. He plotted per- and openly admitted that he had undermine the unlimited goodį usual machorage Highly eMSUR- 6.9 2

spades were run, so held the contract sonn control of Krupps, picked a fool-proof escape route plan will that today exists between able, from whatever authority it

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to ten tricks. One pair got into 4 out a slick, shrewd sycophant ned if Germany lost. He used the...peoples of the Common.may have emanated....I should

6. $

Spades, which was perhaps the safest called Gustav yon Bohlen (the to say that he had so arrúnired like to know upon whose shoul D. $32 wealth.

rubber bridge spar, but got bottom in secretary), sent the young Ger things that he would always be. ders the responsibility would c. 4.2.

the room because only ten. We must not allow apathy and rest if the Factories should be

trick man soldier to East Africa and a rich man-in day' part of the. were taken by North. duillusionment frustrate this burned and sacked dyring the great purpose. The Governments Steamer's absence....CANTON. of-the-democracies—could-show,

other Dominions, to all of whom Britain is heavily indebted, that the resources of the sterling arça should no longer be under the

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This restoration of Europe at too late an hour to allow device occasionally used by fue and the Empire is no pocket to make any lengthened re- torch, with which to attempt to matka upon its contents. light up a cathedral. It jaman

enduring vision which, in times required out, the fact

of peace, should give me the Whampoa, Intenalty, the fatisfaction), and his reached the purpose that come naturally de the atta amid the toll and sweat, and Pultwould Blood of warŻ

players to gain the advantage ofĝa favourable lead, or that which might C come in the late play of a band li the opponents bave. problem. It is quite

discarding simple device and "cóntists, merely of's bidding

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forced Bertha to marry the man world.”

she had never mot. In the

to

same breath he ordered van EUROPEAN UNION Bohlen to change his name to|| Krupp.

The pencilled history" "mys:

ADVOCATED

o Paris,, Fab. 28. "The wooing was utterly devoid French President Vincent of romance. No word of love Aurip! has joined those favour- was ever spoken. The whole ing a United States of Europe, thing was a business transse Speaking at a ceremony, re-i tion. Bertha Krupp was sold calling the creation of the Soc into slavery by the Kälmar. She ond Republlok,in^1849) IlAuriel tried to polan herself butɛwas said, a union, of European states caught he regarded her hus la. K necenalty, vaky assimil band" with loathing. They lived 1/2rity will hava to surrender (Dealers South: Exit-West vulner-together only a few months, some of their sovereign rights make the There were frequent somnos. - Ati if they are going the one of them Guatay hit his wifej.prus

Gustav took control of

bidding: 0; this" dial, after) and their life together ended,

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