1948-11-10 — Page 6

Page &

TRANS-ASIATIC AIRLINES, INC.

NEXT FLIGHT

HONG KONG TO MANILA

12th November, FRIDAY

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR

HOUSE

Editor-in-Chief:-W. J. Keates.

Telephones:

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1940.

THE THIRD INSTALMENT

CRUSADE IN EUROPE

Asst. Editor-ID Mackenzie. During this time I had my Arst 10 the Business Manager, W. H. Nolloth large-scale introduction

préss camera, which, since the days of Brady, has been a pro- minent feature of the American Editura

:..... 24354 | military scene in the fall of 1941. however, flash biths were a fairly Reporters & General Omre 32312 novel element in my slally Itte an

(Four lines)

Subscription Rate:

TRANS-ASIATIC AIRLINES (SIAMI LTD.

NEXT FLIGHT

WONG KONG TO BANGKOK

16th November, TUESDAY

FAR EAST AVIATION CO., LTD

A manth

months

Top Floor, National City Bank of N.X. Bida.

Cadrance on Duddell Street),

Kowloon Tel:

Tel: 27204,

JTI85

One

уеде

Air France-

(FRENCH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS)

SCHEDULED AIR SERVICES

From HONG KONG To BAIGON

every SUNDAY

Tem WONG KONG T BAIPHONG & HANOI every MONDAY

From HONG KONG To LONDON via PARIS

FRIDAYS, NOV 12 AND NOV. 20

For Particulars Apply To-

·CIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES Queen's Buliding.

Tel. 26851 (1 lines).

Strive of Democracy-Bangkok

SCHEDULED

RANGOON Monday

MANILA

FLIGHTS Monday & Thursday

BANGKOK AND SINGAPORE

Monday & Friday

The KONT

TO SYDNEY

Next Flight:

20th Nov.

COVERS THE

ORIENT

Tathay Pacific

Central Air Transport Corporations

Luxurious Aircraft

Stewardess Service

HONGKONG

Daily Service

Co.

GANTON

BIRTH PHILLIPS-At Queen Mary

pital, on November 8, to Lou, wife of P. (BHD)}

Beatrice Pavelela,

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story Of The War In Europe

i was only an wiknown face to th men who used them. During the critique at Camp Palk a group, eyeshot of the target; and feld Although the Washington regges shot was made of General Krue- | commanders could jön a grasp of lintions with the Japanese am- 1.FC.$18.00

tacticnt situation →→ terrain, | husstutors po, Major E.M. Bollen, a British the

wer neuring Thel H.K.$30.00 milila - observer, and mm; in the avenues of movement, concent-dramatic climax, at the beginning caption my two companions were ralions of troops and artillery of December, a relaxation of ten- 14.K. $72.00 correctly identified, but I appeared almost as complete ร ไป the seness among the civilian popuin- as "Lt. Col. D.D. Ersenbeing" eighteenth century, when the option was reflected within the at lise the lultials were right,

It seemed that the Jap posing commanders, from horse Army. back or a hillock, could view all unese bluff had been called and The manouvres provided me the regiments committer! to bal-war, st, least temporarily, nverted in the Pacifc. On the Hos-with lessons and experience that le

I appreciated more and more an

Russian front the Germans had 1940,

Bidsequent months rolled by. At the end of the manoeuvres I been stopped before Leningrach We conducted Phillips, a daughter. Carolin exiensive test of the usefulness grade of brigadier general

and Sevastopol, was promoted to the temporary | Moscow,

My daily paper, on December 4, said of

the cub plane

October and November were as editorally that it was now evident observation purposes. Ite worth

Вику пл the mantha preceding the Japanese had no desire for was demonstrated so conclusively inanoeuvres. Measures to correct war with the United States.

revealed Ina that later, in the War Depart defects

columnist Louisiana

few days Inter re- were begun at the unit level; in ported that in Washington there me, I was able to argue success fully, under the leadership of many cases the return movement was a strong feeling that the Assistant Secretary of War John offered an immediate opportunity.

crisis in the Pacific had been J. McClay, for its inclusion in the Some officers, both Regular and postponett, although a week eariter formal equipment of very divi- National Guard, hat of necessity betting odris in Washington circles lasty These planes abfed our to be alleved from command; had been ten to one on immediate hvy and long-range artillery controversies and rumours, fol- war. to gain an necuracy and quick-towing un this step, required EYORS of adjustment previously quick action to prevent injury to restricted to the light guns within morale among ofcers and troops. 7

DEATH

REMEDIOS--On October 3, 1048 at the Tung Chi Hospital, 82 Yates Road, Shanghai, John 3. M. Dus Remedius (Johnnie) ngerl 54 years, dearly beloved husband of Mrs. Theresa Dos Remedios and father Regina, Myru ard Dicky.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The

Misses Herenin and Marita te Grnen beg to tender their heartfelt thanks to relations and friends for their alien- lance at the funeral and for all expressions of sympathy during their recent bercave- ment.

NOT VERY PROMISING

Those who awaited Pre-

In Louisiana an

fur Haison and

DON

IDDON'S

|

tired out from the long and ex- hausting stoff work of the man- oeuvre, and their aftermath, I went to bedl with uries that In no eircumstances was I 10 be disturbed. My dreams were

n two weeks leuve I was going to take, ring which my wils and I were going to, West Point to sperni Christinas with pur plebe son, John. But ev dreams ke this-and, my strict onfex-could be shattered with impunity by the aide who brought

the news that we were at war.

Within an hour of The Pearl Harbour

attack

orders bega pouring into Third Army Hond- quarters from the War Depart- ment. There were orders for the Immediate transfer of aircraft undis to the West Coast. my recently

completed tour In where the terrified citizens hour the Philippines. Within a matter ly defectel phantom bombers in of hours after their assault on the sky; orders for the establish- Pearl Harbour the Japanese Butt ment of anti-sabotage measures; launched against the Philippines orders for curefui guarding of in-un air attack that quickly reduc dustrial plants; orders for recon-

Med

ed our inadequate air forces to naissance along our Southern practical impotence It was the border to prevent the entrance of spot upon which offelal and pub sples; and orders to insure the Hic interest was centered, and safety of ports along the Gulf of General Marshall undoubtedly Mex Mexico. There were orders to

wanted someone on his staff who

with- rushing heavy bexlies of troops to

familiar reasonably the West in anticipation of any conditions then current in the in- attacks the Japanese might' con-

was

On the afternoon of December template. In turn General Krue, lands, who was acquainted with

广鎮 DIARY

ME I HAD M.

Gut

Wha

uc both the Philippines Department at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Rer's heatiquarters, had to send of the United States Army and Instructions to 1 100 the defence organisation of the stations as rapidly as they could Philippines Commonwealth, which be prepared and checked.

It war hatt caught halfway in ita period of intense activity.planned development:

Immeliney of movement was The Commonwealth defence the keynote, The normal chan-

organiantion dated back to 1985. neta

administration

were when

General MacArthur was abandoned; the chain of comasited by newly elected President mand was compressed at meet Quezon to plan and build a mill- ings where ali echelons gut their tary force able to defend the in- Instructions in a a single briefing, lands; on July 4, 1940, when the the show

methodical process Commonwealth was to become an of drawing up detailed movement

United republle; Independent orders that specified to the last States troops were

to: be wit

be with- lot of equipment what should be drawn and armed defence would Taken with the

troops, should be

how thereafter be a Philippines func- crated and marked, tion. On General MhoArthur's was ignored. single telephono

Horn-Blowing Necessary

It has changed a good den since a cable arrived from. London In

up

horses are

are

of flesh

Stanwyck.

the

screen or

call

the

anci

A

"Is that you, Ike?"

*Yes."

.obsolete

and yards for n} WI

ንሴ

be able to

New York, Oct. 31. Is exclusively American in- Hollywood, discarding its cur- Perhaps may be personal for

dived deep vention and possession.

Her apathy, now sident Chiang Kai-shek's a few paragraphs. Today Lin These are oversights and omis- into the election campaign. These slons that should be entreetel | high-powered names came out speech in expectancy that Dlory enters its sixth year.

would start an infantry unit acceptance, a military mission of all the way for Governor Dewey:

un American officers was formed and dramatic developments might

The Diary will do its best.

neross the continent: troops and 1 was assigned to it as his senior The Cold Election Robert Montgomery, Ginger Ro- emerge gained from it the 1943 telling me to write a column

The Presidential election? fy

sers Water Pidgeon, Walt Dis- equipment entrained with nothing minimum of satisfaction. about Amerien.

Guns were Reiteration of the National

In 1935 we planned' to turn out There is more opinion, fewer

now in the home stretch, but the ney, Jeanette MacDonald, Robert in writing to show by what nu-assistant.....

Taylor and weary,

William Powell, Lionel thority they moved.

of uni- Government's determination dippancies. Currently it is being and the spectators and puenter Barrymore, larold Lloyd, Mary louded on flatcars, if flatcars were each year during the coming ten..

on gondolas if they printed in Great Britain, Austra-

through a programme to fight. the civil war to ulje, South Africa, and Englisi- bored. President Truman is/Pickford, Ann Sheridan, Barbarald be had; in freight cars

training, appro- versal military The vers timate victory even if it speaking communities

tired nog, but stu! and Whipping a

ximately 30,000 soldiers with Ave courageously refuses to give L

The pubile sully is sceptical nothing else was at hand. takes, as the President sug-down the world.

of

men travelled in de luxe pull-and entertainers' political wisdom. the race.

we would from At first ence. mans, in troop sleepers, in mo- and a half months' basic experi- gested, eight years, will - Strictly British

Henry Wallace has been thrown they may cut elegant figures on

xtern coaches, and in day cars units of only platoon size; but they stage, but little enthusiasm

that had beert But essentially it is a column at the fences and is now strug- arouse

within four or five years don't

cut much fee with

the

sidetracked in the sole for British people. That is what gling painfully on foot. There is among people whose

hoped to produce regiments and. The main Ob- a suspicions that his mounit is voters, except, perhaps, the fabu-generation and were now drafted by 1948, with a total of 300,000 I want it to be. desire is for peace, and quiet,jective always is a fair but vigor - į mechanical horse, powered by lous Tallulah Bankhead. and a full rice bowl. The

Tallulah was party the for emergency troop movements men who had the minimum basic of the Britishi petrol engine, and not ous presentation whole stress of the address case. That is the theme.

and blond.

other night attended by Alred

I had five days of this Early training, we would to the Kuomintang Central My own belief is that we havei Dewey remains a balding, nig-Land and Lynn Fontaine, Jessica in the morning of December 12 form 30 divisions.

Tandy, Juck Haley. Dorothy

connecting ԱՏ suffered from being overmodest mutle figure

telephone Political Council

arousing no real was upon

During the sume transitional Dickson, Van Heffin, the Gilbert

Depart- directly to the War Department period the Philippines in our relations with the United warmth or enthusiasm. the political and military

Bentrice Lillie," Millers,

und We have indulged in un-f Stafes.

His cautious campaign has others, including your columnist.

in Washington began to jangle. I ment of the United States Army, situation when desperate derstatement, always playing tated the people. Hungry for a

with thi 15 answered and someone inquired, while working closely economic conditions and the down our role, never spot-light-bold policy, the statements thry

At the same party I met Vivian

Commonwealth defence force and Elia, whe wrote the musie in

it with officer and en- resulting discontent at pre-ing and publicising It. Our show- have been fed are pap.

supplying "Bless the Bride." The London

Instructors, listed

arms, and. sent form by far the most manship has been either non-ex-} Melting The Ice hit, one of my favourites, will

equipment, was planning also. for dangerous factor. Although istent or inept.

The harassed party managera probably be produced on Broad- "The Chief says for you to hop its own part in defence should My plen is for a more aggres- with the unfreezing of prices, sive and dynamic portrayal of are lighting faggots to melt the way, so Sir Charles Cochran in-

a plane and get up here right war come before Philippine in- ice, but flamethrowers would forms me. Cochran seeks a new

awny. Tell your boss that format

contiti- !conditions in Peiping and the stupendous British contribu-

fizzie out against the tion to the world. I ask for a

bergs of leading man for his next London orders will come through later" depenience.. In such

planned to with- Canton and some other cen-

boredom. There are more argue musical.

The "Chief" was General Mar-gency it was tres have slightly improved, born-blowing perhaps even ments about the German woman Marlene's Role

shall, and the man at the other draw our troops on the main is.. Into the Bataan. conditions in Shanghai are

Torence Rattigan, our must kuc-

end of the line was Colonel Wal- tandet Luzon. completely chaotic, with the

ter Bedell Smith, who was later Peninsula across from Corregidor Americans are divided between gesstul playwright, dropped in at

to become my close friend and so that the two areas would con- impregnable price of butter. to mention shout about. Need for a few king those who brand Mrs. Koch an my apartment for a drink the

chief of staff throughout the stitute one almost.

forces could only one commodity, quoted words for John Bull is still evi- inhuman torturer B butcher aller night. He has been seeing

position where our hold until reinforcements arriv at US$17 a pound. The gen-

ed. In 1038; I witnessed days columnists and editorialists who made lampshades out of the a lot of Marlene Dietrich, trying European operations.

this. eral public is much

This message was a hard blow. Korda for a rema

remake of "Shooting

manoeuvre demonstrating have made much of the "Ameri- skin of her victims in Buchen- to sign her up for Sir Alexander

wald concentration camp can nir-lift" to deeply concerned with the

those who claim she was merely Star Marlene will probably go During the first World War every plan, and shortly after I loft the

one of my fruittle efforts to get dire facts of the economic R.AF, has scarcely been men-

it was repented in a 10. England In November to star in Rattigan's script.

to the scene of action had been stanals collapse which has followed toned.

The British lad Brinn Roper defeated-for reasons which had large scalin. swiftly on the heels of the ders or radio listeners are aware about the steady British recovery

no validity to me except that they : Traveling to Washington on all boiled down to "War Deparl- December 12; 1041, I had no clear military disaster in Man of the massive part our Air Force and comparing it with the tumult has established something of a

ment orders." I hoped in churia than with political dis- has played flying in supplies to and tangle in France! about the record. Within 48 hours of lear welcome England he was on a Holly- Many think the stock market and the Sino- the Germans.

wood sound stage

at M-G.-M. any new war to stay with troops, den of the progress of fighting in the Philippines. The reports we putes, quarrels over

apposite Margaret

Being ordered to a city where

had received at Fort Sam Hous- hack already served n fatal in prices of women's

Brien in "The Secret Garden."

tun were fragmentary and ob clothes. about time of the civil war. air bases in the United Kingdom

police clean-up Critics

years

would eight

mean, problems

more tre

enthusiastic

scure. Undoubtedly the Japanese burlesque shows on Fifty to American Super-stripty)-Second-street: and the

a virtual repetition of my would not dare by-pass the is thought, a Roper than about about

the In the matter of the conduct available

experience In World War lande.. But the direction and taken for of the military campaign, fortresses has been

robberies all young Freddie Bartholomew, of

I telephoned my weight of their assault was still This could have outbreak of Jewel

whom We henr very little Heavyhearted, President Chiang revealed an granted here,

wife in pack a bag, and within unknown when I arrived at the nowadays. Also here is: the Marquess at

the hour I was headed for the War Department. optimism which obviously Is been presented as a most audaciaver the town.

vus and generous aei-which

Milford Haven. He is garnering.

All For Television

War Department. not shared by the American authorities, who have strong-

Both Broadway and Hollywood dollars and good will for Britain

are following carefully the mis- here.

Highlight of my week was the son of Sir Ernest Fisk, managing dinner of the Fellowship of the director of Electric and Musical His aim United States and British Com Industries, in Canada. rndes, at which General Siris equip the Canadian Broad- William Morgan presented the easting Corporation system. Mil- Africa Star with two bars to lions of dollars are fivolved. General Eisenhower.

Latest poll of maviegoers' taste

more

achievements.

little-shouting, about our

Ilse Koch than about the enndl-

The British have plenty

to dates,

dent here. During the past few

Berlin

The

Few Amserlenn newspaper ren-

andi

an oversexed nuisance,

New Yorkers are also tallding

Russian polley or the broad air-lift is an all-American show, drop in stock market and the wel-ring

Similarly, our making British come drop

And our contribution to the ly advised their nationals to development of atom bombs has evacuate Hankow, Nanking been largely forgotten or ignored. and Shanghai-clear indica- Most Americans think the bomb tion that the Yangtse Valley

is not considered to be out-applied during the war with side the likely sphere of mili- Japan remains the pre tary operations. For the mo- dominant thought in Chinese ment it would be unwise to war councils. Where in that attempt to predict the likely lies hope of the early restora- course in the military field. tion of reasonable stability in In North China, the expected China we fail to see. lull in fghting has develop. ed, but attention is concen- trated upon Hsuchow, at the

SCHEDULED DEPartures from HONG KONG function of the Lunghai and

Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday Leaving Kai Tok at 8 a.m.

Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday Looving Kai Tak at 9.30 a.m.

Pd.cont

Shell Hones Tel: 13278, 27645 & 2011

HOWLOON Pentamia Hotel Arenda Tel: 58948.

•

India's Status With Pandit Nehru's retum Tientsin-Pukow Railways, the to India public interest last bastion for the defence concentrated on India's future

Latest definition of a politician is a man who turns a private de sire into a pubile demand.

Best non-etion sellers here are "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living," "Peace of Mind." end "The Gathering, Storm."

DO YOU

of Nanking, where large com- relations with the British KNOW munist forces are reported 'to Commonwealth. Mr. Nehru's be massing under General prestige has never been high- Chen Yi. Much will depend jer in India and his advice on

upon the result of any large this question given on Mon-

scale collision in this area day to the Constituent As- because the bulk of the Gen-sembly which is now meet- eralissimo's remaining loyal ing to adopt the final con- Idivisions are concentrated stitution for India, will doubt- there. Even in this, the less prove the decisive factor Generalissimo's statement in the debate,:

YOUR HONG KONG?

Bally in the "China Mul!" In future will пр

lacked encouragement, unless Political observers in India | ***** a stimulant can be derived are convinced that the coun-par photo- from an announcement that try will be a Republic but graph similar 10 the Government is prepared Mr. Nehru has urged that that above, odd for further sacrifices. This some device be found to keep shots of familiar Напа....Копо probably does not mean that up the country's connection buildings

and the abandonment of Nanking with the Commonwealth and treat 200nes,

of

I had probably been ordered to Washington, I decided, because cil

To Be Continued

shows that they want action and It is prudent to insure rather than to take a humour.

A revival of Korda's "Four Feathers" is doing 'excel- lent business in the small towns. British artists have been rurely more popular. We can hardly go wrong.

Pago Seven.

is yet contemplated: it does the formula which he, pre-Can you recognise where this plature was takent The anawer la'on

ram to suggest that the 'sented will probably com. theory of "clastic defence" as mend itself.

chance it will never happen to you.

INSURANCES

FOR

ALL PERSONAL & BUSINESS

REQUIREMENTS

CONSULT

BUTTERFIELD

SWIRE

Insurance Dept. Tel: 31905

ነ