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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1948.

DECEMBER 29 Delayed start THE TWENTY-eighth INSTALMENT

uuta 7:20, Sun

reports

entire

[Jap], position overrun. At dark,- Li gut going and went into main poillion, where they had little troublo Two lands were left along river, and a few wandering hands

were being worked on. One' major, three captains, three [Jap] Heutenants bagged, Good.. work by Chiness: aggressivo attack, good are control, quick

Asst. Editor-lan Mackenzie. action. They are full of beans Business Manager: W. H. Nolloth; and tickled to death at bosting

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(four new)

3 months

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the Japs, Went to command post મ

The Stilwell Papers

of

the

at noon.

innd caw the gang. Firing all 24354 around as the roundup proceeded. JANUARY 12-Cleveland back the long waiting for the road to

MARCH 3-The big day. Omin- 32312 Considerable loot, All very with bad news. Generalissimo dry, the gradual formulation ous quiet. No Jap artillery. Up nervous about me. Stayed an now. demands [before commiting plans for the next phase as the at 530 and over to see tanks hour and then came back, Two Yoke force] amphibious operations Chiness— gnawed their way move out: 'Not well done. Jam Subscription Rates:

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half hour hike, stopped on Andaman Islands plus...plus through the Jungle in February. on road, Truck stuck. Start one H.K.$18.00 once for suspected ambush.

plus cutting of communica- Main gk won, about fifteen hour inte. Message from Merril- H.K.$36.00

Annoying news from Chungking tions between Bhamo and Lashio, miles south of Taipke Ga, was will reach Wolawbum

Usini attempt to get me to.com- HK$72.00 and Delhi. Louls (Mountbatten] No replacentents in sight. Wo nce nest objective. Maingkwon was 8:00 p.m., Message from Merrill-mit myself, Buck to 22nd Divi-, \

trying sly stricks. mo may out on a limb.

the main Japanese supply and hit Japs

post At Unrk. nt Wesu and Lagang. son command commit Yoke force [to Burma

bane -

Chow. LETTER TO MRS, STILWELL | Contmunication

Talk. No U.S. caualties, Jubilation. campaign).

valley, and its loss ENGAGEMENT

Japanese messages. Intercepted: We eat straight rations or Chinese ukawng DECEMBER

30-Turkey for show and we live where we have would speed them on their way Chinese all pepped up.

'..emmunities very large, we can- No fooling, with cran-to and the trails are tough, and well was ready to se

February. south. By inte

MARCH 4-Sequence of mes- Sill SWAINE-CHU-Mr. & Mrs. H. E. berry sauce and 'svet potatoes.

sages: 6:00 pm. last night. Mer-nat protect river crossing..every Merrill's we get wet and muddy, but we

Fill arrives, jubilation; 10:00 pm fight hard. Enemy is very strong

man In the next

few. daya must Swaine, O.B.E., announce the DECEMBER 31-Cold and damp; sleep soundly and the food tastes Marauders on their first mission.

their

fifth cleared by 9:00,

The Chinese engagement of

Last day of go

would advance Brown's first are usually through good because we

and we must destroy him at all and jungic,

"heavy casualties,” taking trap" hungry. The principal hazard is faingkwan frontally, while daughter, Mary Francis, to 1043, RI.P.

the gloom; at midnight, Brown's gar-

costs..cannot hold much longer Robert, second son of Mr. &

messages Chung-

if halp does not come..no help. Mobel Cut Center king and Delhi, Strom being hit on the head by a bag Afar fronte

seen around bled message, repeated and re Of rice dumped out of a

a plane. me to come to both places and Once in a while the Japs' patrols Japanese at Watawbum, cutting Ngam Ga at dawn." Brown's

wide the east and fall on the celved at 9:00 am. "Will attack available, fight to the and." decide on this and that. Got

all answered by noon. De- Bet ambitious but they have pull- | them off eight miles to the south. message received nt 7:00 a.m.; "Do them eded to jump to Delhi and get it ed in their horns lately and the The tank colunin, also employed not need hattalion, want air to

trails to the rear are quito safe, aver and jump back,

27, 1948.

MAJOR & MRS. J. WESTON

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years.

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DC-3 enme in at 1:00, and we Progress is slow; the jungle is took off at 1:55. In at Delhi at everywhere and very nearly im- 1:00 am. New Year's-shooting penetrable. Yesterday, on a cut fireworks.

troll took 31⁄2 hours do 3 miles, JANUARY 1,-1844.

at every DELHI tripping and cursing

It takes

long time to Office 8:30, Bin Sultan, Covell, step. Merrill. Ferris. Sow Louls even locate the Japs, and

We are [Mountbatten] at 2:00. Walla- more to dig them out.

nod elephant

country 14 Walls, He won't take command: in tiger

haven't seen any yet. Ashley Roar, Kowloon, on doesn't know where he is Saw although

Wheeler, October 28, 1948, at 5.10a.m. Wedemeyer,

Sulton, Same of the men have and I've Filomena (Nita) Julia Marin Ferris at 3:30. Got a halreul, seen droppings and tracks. Wh

in the an elephant leaves iris card in Gracu, dearly beloved To field at 12:00... sister of Heren Marita de Deelded to try for Shingwlyan Tarzan any day now. The jungle

JANUARY Chobus at 7:15. trall, it takes

vaulier 10 pole climb over 11, Graca,

expect to see 71st ter Funeral will pin the Rood landing. Sun [L-Jon] not Monument at 3.30 p.m. today,

moving; preposterous demands is full of his long swinging vines. October 29, Macuo. Shanghai for ammunition, air support and This experience is different from

artillery.

the last time.

time. Now we have avin- and Manila papery please

Word from Chungking, G-motion and ammunition and artillery still buking the commitment of and a certain amount of training." Yoke force to offensive). F.D.R. so we don't have to take it on perhaps implied threat to divert the nose as we used to, with no Supply

chance of answering. The

Chinese JANUARY 4-for Yupbang at soldier is doing his stuff, as 8:20. Li's command post for lunch know he would if he had half The recent correspondence and then down to river.

Quiet. chance.

It's only the higher-ups strong point. treo 29th October, FRIDAY in the "China Mail" regard- Big banyan

terrible. Dreity ing the post-war behaviour regular hotel and fort combined. Who are weak and they are still The Americans of servicemen in Hong Kong/Tarzan vine to slide down from are all doing a good job and they

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Extensive all enjoy the life. If I could just has neared

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struggling must be regarded as closed.

view of river and Japanese side The Glamour Boy Mountbatten) with my shoestring. Nevertheless the matter up and down. Back at 5:00-17 is just about that.

He doesn't has been given. a thorough miles fon foot].

wear well and I begin to

wonder JANUARY B-Radfo from jairing, and if both sides are Sultan-Louls (Mountbatten] weit he knows his stuff. Enormous istill unchanged in their chas on entire programme for damn little fighting.

staff, endless walla-walio, but And of views, that was only to be Burma offensive). G-mo's fault dam

course the G'mo is unchanged. expected. The truth of the of course. Limey programme (1) The jungle is a refuge from them

(2) Do not matter is probably that there Glop road at Ledo.

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MARCH 7--Up at 8:30 and in to`s Maingkwan and Pouth a mile or so to ambush location. Plenty of Idead Japs, harres and junk. Louls much impressed. 'Doesn't like corpses. Tøft at 9:00,

MARCH 9-Ling (commander 22nd Division] feeling his outs. ("22nd Division beat the best division of Jap Array at Kun Lun Kuan. Now it has beaten the second best division of the Jap Army,"

The 1042 Interlude [Burma retreat] is forgotten.)

LETTEN TO MRS, STILWELL Still in the bushes but pushing along Louls has been up but didn't like the smell of the cor- pses. Now it has been proved that I was right about Chinese troops and the opposition is en- tirely tongue-tied. It's grand. Louis and I get along famously even if he does have curly eye- laslycs. Dom is frothing at the mouth because for certain reason his gang are still on leash. Health, excellent. Disposition,

Food, too much. Sleep, plenty. Patience, still some left.

MARCH 17-Flew to Ledo at 1:00 p.m. Went to 20th General [Hospital), saw Chinese wounded.

Lado Rond op way. Flew back. advance till British advance in the Arakan. Oh, Jesus. Now that storis,

Message from Jos Stalin in answer to my congratu intions on 28th birthday of Red Army. Fly eggs in my blanket. Like cheesy candle grase, Bolled them out.

Bio" from G-me to halt

MARCH 13-Begins to look Like Shadurup for the rainy - pen- son anchorage.

(To Be Continued) ·

Jou

Cat

is less ill feeling extant than attack Burma, (3) Go to Sumatre, ing of manure to a couple of my

Stilwell's plans were suddenly the sound and fury of ven- JANUARY 8-The Long Range JANUARY 13-Long talk with

affected by the offensive the Jap tilated grievances would lead | Penetration Group [Merrill's

anese launched in late March one to suppose. On the Marauders] is arriving at Ledo Sun.

against the British Indian vorder, January 20, and expects to jump extreme importance of this opera other hand, both

two hundred miles to the aguth. off February 15. My God what tion and serious consequences of

Three Japanese division, in a and military have committed speed, Snorted at him and he failure. He protests he meutis

surprise drive, struck across the errors and also have a sense allowed they might better the business and will take Talpha...

the border with their apparent JANUARY 21-To Ningam, ar- of justice on their side. time. Expect to ride in trucks to

target Imphal and their purpose rived at 11:00, To take the much-malign- the river! Went to bed at 6:30

JNUARY

Saw Brown for the first time, would cut, keep artillery down." Told Brown the penetration of India deep en- 10-LETTER TO [Colonel Rothwell Brown, tank through jungle trails and, drive to contact Merrill and get under ough to cut off Assam province, ed serviceman, first: he has MRS, STILWELL. Just a lina to commander) at Shingbwiyan. 87 in on the Japanese cominunie his command.

| Japanese success in cutting off been accused of lack of let you know I am pecking away tanks in, remainder in [from ations between Walawbum and

| Anam would not only break-off Sixty-sixth [Regiment) cut road Stilwell's rear supply but diso morals, bad manners and in- with the help of my Chinese Ledo] today. One lost. The job Maingkwan.

south of Maingiwan, ambushed put an end to all supplies for triends on

FEBRUARY a tough <signment.] [over road] under terrible con- ability to fit into the ordin-Since the Limeys control

B-LETTER TO OU the ditions, Brown says worse than MRS. STILWELL Don't believe Japs, claim 100, maybe 25. Jape China which depended on the Jary home. The recently con- communiques, you will hear very anything he can imagine. Every any slop you hear about my be- cooks as infantry. Entire (Jap)

using engineers,

and Hump airbases locate în Assamı scripted lad in his late teens little about our endeavours, but body performed. One Chinese Ing in any danger. Hell, I don't 56th [Division] in here all right palen, begun to press on Stilwell. The large problems of the com- may find this unpleasant but so far the boys-have-performed killed-tried to jump out of tank want-to-be-knocked-off-in this and artillery too. Now If Mer-Chiang kept urging Stilwell to not surprising, but for the very creditably and chewed up Gave them three days to rest and morass, and I assure your that. I rill can do his stuff! 3:00 p.m. hate his advance south, lest he a few Japs. I get numerous reflt.. P.m. doped out plan of will take good care of myself. I Chinese reported in Maingkwan. overetend himself and lose what others who spent some years howls to come up to Chungking advan

advanen to 'south.

have gotten together a few tough 5:45: Frank Merrill is in Wa-had been won. But Stilwelt, de- in uniform during the war, or come down to Delhi but so JANUARY 28-o [at] 7:00 eggs to keep an eye out-Loont fit comes as a rude shock.. far have managed to fight them down the river, 9:00 at boathead back and sides, and they would lawbum, One [American] killed, termined as ever, was now fram-

to carry him in the nEXT They remember Kipling in and remain with the troops, 9:30 to 12:00 getting to front] all enjoy a little bout of assassins Reven wounded. Says Jups losting plans for the push that was

I'd like a vacation after the weary Went over Jap position it was too lon the old days when many mental struggle I've been having small and the mortars gave them but satisfactorily. We are chew- [Mountbatten] is due at. Talpha to the hills around Jambu Brune

Things are going slowly at least 25 times that much.

weeks out of the Hukasong valley

brave Tommies often were with our allies.

hell. Not well dug in, in spite of ing

ofing them up in bunches; but the

and Shadurup, which separate uneducated and

occupation from demusy 19 to aggregate is getting to be fairly

the Hukawng from the Mogaung social misfits:

photo albums are resplendent January 24. Thompson claims respectable. And the Boys op- MARCH 6-To Talpha at 2:15.valley. His tactical problem was It's Tommy this, an' Tommy with brigadlers and

simple: Should he halft for the Jops

Louis [Mountbatten] in at 2:45. season, before the torrents of the probably 325 rear-

325 dead that, an "Chuck 'im admirals, and who would and feet sticking out, rather hur in at upbang-

were all over the place with y posite are tough, eHgs.

heads

FEBRUARY 15-Fontoon bridge Sixteen fighters encorted him monsoon began, on the hills

Brown's. recon- (We had four fighters working Shaduzup. or should he plann out, the brute!"

therefore be embarrassed by ried burlal; plenty in the river. naissance out going up.

on the battle. Went to head push ahead? But it's "Saviour of is the presence of able seamen They ran their guns in the river. FEBRUARY 17, LETTER TO quarters and he made a dump

country," when the and, corporals.

JANUARY 38-Reached] Delhi MRS. STILWELL Just a line dur-speech. Then we talked till 4:45.1 at 7:30, guns begin to shoot.

Long talk with Sultan ing a lull while waiting for dope The facts are that, if some and Ferric on the situation here. on weather or not we have taken The son of an ordinary means existed for civilians The Limeys are welching. a step in the right direction. We family who joined up to fight and military to get together, JANUARY 31-DELHI Office, are getting a break on weather. Hitler or the Japs found him- all social classes and tastes 10:00 nm. to the big walla-walla The chow is arriving: regularly, self provided with canteens, would find congenial frtends. [conference]. The Limeys take I am getting plenty of sleep, and knitted comforts, free drinks But from the ordinary Hong won't fight if they can help it.

me more seriously now.. But they am generally enjoying myself.

FEBRUARY 21-It rained last and dinners, by those who Kong resident's point of view Blew off my head about the night from 11:00 to 1:00, and were able to remain in their those who do not belong to plan" that "we global strategy" lay there cursing till long after

have

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Fancy it Anally stopped. About

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Got nowhere, of raving manine. Went to Ning- the dimming of memories, he uniform? The majority of course. Told them "To hell with byen and saw Merril's gang. has gone back to his old role our population does not live logistics." And mentioned Clive Tough-looking lot of babies. Told SOUTH AFRICA - PAKISTAN - INDIA - CEYLON of the nuisance, the rowdy up on the Peak or in airy and his 123 soldiers. Dead all-Merrill what his job would be. Had to wade river to sen 1st young man, away from home, houses. on the outskirts of ence.

FEBRUARY 1-At 11:00 started Battalion. With Merrill ready without the stabilising influ- Kowloon. They make do in for Shing. At Shingbwiyan got

and

Brown ready, we can go now, ence of wife or mother, with tiny flats and, hotel rooms, message that Taipha Ga

FEBRUARY 24-Merrill starts. AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND.FAR EAST JAPAN |spare time and a little money, and have little money left for taken today,

FEBRUARY 25-Last night not even heeding the proverb entertaining. If they

The Chinesa had tasted their first word of appreciation from

hands.

still arises of finding the There is not the slightest right serviceman. doubt that most servicemen The wartime idea of invit- in this Colony would be (ing anonymous batches to genuinely welcome in some one's home by asking the home if only the two could [C.O. to provide some men get together. In this corres- was seldom satisfactory, even pondence, it has been implicit in those hectic days, and the that the commissioned officer accosting of men in the street is acceptable · socially-not hardly commends itself to only because he feels the res the boldest. Let the 'serving. ponsibility of behaving him man be assured that there is self, but also because he has a great deal of sympathy and common meeting grounds liking for him in Hong Kong. with local residents.

¡And if he does not meet too The same would indubit- much of it personally, let ably apply to the ranker, but him at least have the con he has not his superior's fla-solation that his time hero is ancial facility for joining short. If the plentiful food mutual clubs, inviting friends and drink, cigarettes and con to his mess, and the ability (fectionery which are obtain to return hospitality: There able, hore, do not guffice, has been a pathetically ridi Tommy has the trump tard culous implication" that all that one day the boat will civilians in Hong Kong came roll, and it won't be too long from the best families whose now.

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