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I was determined not to give Up unless personally convinced that the attack was an impos- Nily. Weather prohibited fly- ing and I started forward by mitomobile di December 22, en- 24354 | countering iniserable road condi- tians from the moment we left 33312| Algiers. Travelling almost

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

strength, up to brought though song

even

in the Army if I insisted upoti

than it did for, précipitate neliön and possible revolution. The country was ridden; almbal ruled, By rumour. One rumour was to the effect that I was a Jow, sent into the country by the Jew, Roosevelt, to grind down the Arabs and turn over North Africa to Jewish rule. Tie pblillenl staff was so confcerned about this one that they published my ple

of its equipment the arrangement, because of turn in every newspaper and

special leaficts to establish ovi-

dence of my ancestry. Arab un-

The British restar, even worse, open. ro-

靄

cessantly, I met Generai Anive Ron at his headquarters in the early morning of December 24 and with him proceeded at once

was already an obsolete type. feeling still enduring from the t Souk-el-Khemis. AL the Logistics staffs opposed ny pur-British-French einshes in Syria, point was located, the headquar- puse of concentrating a full corps Orna, nud Dakar. H.E.430.00 teru of the British 5 Corps, which rust of Tebessa. They waited First Army was on the left, the aniserable communion- French forcer in the cmitre, and wns to make the attack and that mir HK$72.00 which was commanded by Majotas could ut maintain to the American forces on the right, cccupying parts of u General C. W.

The then da avicures division and but i Autrey of British Army. The preliminary additional regiment, But, single, closely inter-related battle moves of the attack had already convticed that the enemy would front, and all dependent upon

line of com- been inade by small detachments, soon take advantage of our obvi-single, hindequate

neverthe manutentions. attempting to secure

weakness there, Hong Kong is rapidly ex-

points before the beginning of tess ordered the concentration of perating situation, full of peten- set up a forward com- celling its pre-war reputation for the following night. The rain and told the logistics people was to

the injor munneuvre, schedule the corps of four divisints to be- find danger. The best I could do for the prevalence of bad ren constantly, We wendt they would have to find a way to minel post of my own, where

spent as much time as I could. i quor, and this is increasing personally to inspect the enun supply

which the troop The f. 8. 1st Infantry Division left there permanently a small Gomoral Truscott. with the approach of Christ-tryside over

would have to advance, and was to be assigned to this corps staff under 'mus. Most adults enjoy their while doing so I observed an in-as quickly as it could be assum-whose task it was to represent

evening' cocktail, the occa- cident which, as much as any sional party, and the quan- | thing else, I think, convinces **) led from its scattered positions me in the co-ordination of details |

JUNGLE JUICE

About 30

critien

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the frout.

It was an

being of the community. Į with winter wheut, a motorevelly transferred Eastvärd】 attacks, crimtod a critical situa-

One

In such circumstances 11 is al-rever

rapkily

in

not ro

urea.

results

it.

bellion, would have set us back for months and lost us countless

To Be Continued

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CANTONESE BY RADIO

BY SK LEE

A new departure by Radio Hong Kong is to be the teaching of Cantonese By Radio through an expert teacher, with a series of lessons com- On the day mencing on Friday of this wook. day proceding each lesson, the vocabulary to be dealt with will be sat out in the columns. of the "China Mail”, and should be cut out, or ratained, for raterance by those interested in the course. The First Losson, on tone prac- tice, follows:

RISING

3nd high UPPER ECHOING

hima

3rd low

LOWER

ECHOING

Names of Tones

Tone Practico

1st high TOP

2nd high UPPER

Upper Tones

himi

him2

Names of Tones

1st low BOTTOM

2nd low

LOWER

RISING

Lower Tones

lilm

zhim

a him

THE NUMERALS

The

1.

one.

Note: Romanisations in brackets are used in any text books.

(yat)

tsuti 7. (ts'at). yull

reven.

2. (1)

u 300

two.

'B. (pant)`

-bants -

eight.

3.

(sham)

sarm1

three.

9. (kau)

4.

(BX)

Anyt

four,

10. (shap)

5.

(ng)

five.

11. (ing)

gaut ishup 1":

ninc.

ten.

zero.

0,- (luk)

a look

Klx.

thup

ZA

15.

ayce

3shup

20.

say

sahup baat

48.

#shup tsut1.

67.

ashup gauz

ឆប,

A de-

fromt me on the

and brought into on The U. S. 9th Divi- This condition persisted until tities of "jungle juice" about of the hopelessness of an attack.

39th Regimental French forces in the centre, glv- 30 feet off the road, in asion, Teas the are a menace to the well-held that appeared to be covered combat team which had particling way in mid-January before determined German in the Algiers naxauk, was small but which amazingly

become stuck in the mul enough had

tion that demanded renewed dia- seems to accept its presence Four soldiers were struggling from the Casablanca vrea

persion of the

Ameri.. sembling as merely undesirable

in spite of their was to go unter emmax of 11 extricate it but in mest strenuous efforts succeeded Corps when the movement could can troops in order to plug holes quite inevitable. One can

The 34th Divi-

vi in the leaky front. Under these only in getting themselves mired be completed. follow court cases for month

into the slicity clay. They finally revived similar orders, he conditions; just after the middle after month without seeing a had to give up the attempt and duties in the line of communica- of January, I peremptorily order-

Generi Anderson to

lake left the motorcycle more deeply ties to be taken over by the French, ed Isingle prosecution, inspectors bogged down

of the entire battle line. than when they

the charge The instructions Liver They apparently too keen to started.

American

11 Corps were to pro- personally visited General Juin. bring to justice 10 cent offen- We went back to headquarters wide a strategic tank red for in command of the French forces the North. In the line, to assure myself that our trai forces in ders against the price control and 1 directed that the attack br

Fredendall was directed to hold he would take orders trom Gen- to worry about so ephemeral indefinitely postponed. It was a

biltor decision. Immediately est the mountain paties with light erat Anderson. Later I informed bad a thing as health.

of what I way reached, we were faced with infantry detachments and to com- General Giraud

He interposed no objection According to a local doctor, the problem of tidying up and | centratis the assembled 1st done.

the need had become too ob- Armoured Division rear of the it would be difficult to gauge sembing out our lines,

Units Into proper forma-Infantry outposts, ready to attack vioNIA, the overall loss in efficiency ons collecting local reserves, and in force any hostile column that

The pleture, then, when Gen- dubinus nlcohol,

through cral Anders took over the en- MANILAly in the shape of p. protecting our southern flank night attempt to move me of the battle front, was that of

General Fre- long tenuous line stretching from Honged nausea and other operations throughout the winter communications,

hangover symptoms which |

General Anderson was to do all tenual was further authoriseil, Bizerte to Gafan, with units badly last sometimes for a week. gains we had already made, pent-

this while holding firmly the upon completion of the assembly mixed and with no local reserves. of his corps, to undertake offen- To support this long front there Apart from the people who ing the arrival of better weather sive etion in the direction of was nothing available until the

Gabes in an effort to Ame Slux or

American Il Corps could be fully suffer from temporary blind- in the spring.

Rommel's line of com-concentrated. In the Tebessa re-i ness after a mild party. And

Tunisia. A gion anel walil additional troops the respectable person

ways necessary for the comman-unications with who der to avoid an attitude of deporton of the staff became ob- from England should be able to Idea of the perform a similar service in the starts rioting after a couple teatism; discouragement on thesexsed with the

potential

Tunisia of such nn Northern

ured: of gins. Or the unfortunate the part of the high commander operation and desired to order i process of sorting out units and

inevitably whose hair starts to come out y

spreacts

mobile I disapproved: our praviting tha

reserves throughout the command and al-forthwith. Jin patches.

with unfortunate results. Immediate copacity for un offen- started before Christmas but re- wayn If the scandal were confin-On that ocension it was exceert-

ive was all. So that there could ceived and setback when the French forces gave way in mid- be no misunderstanding I held ed to dingy restaurants and ingly difficult to display any personnal conference with Gen- January and American units and honky tonks, one might not particular optimism.

As early as the middle of Noral Fredendall and completely to rush in to close the gaps. The be surprised, but the poisonvember the French forces outlined my purpose in concen- French diefest could not be traced is just as likely to be served Tunisia had cast their lot with trating his corps in the Tebess to any lack of gallantry or cour- These purposes were, at age; it was morely the total lack in the most expensive resorts. us and were maintaining a presinted, to provide mobile, of

A

modern equipment,

1 look can be sure that the enrious hold on the billy masses

wore struggling to

gouz managements of such places stretching to the Southward from its flank guard on our right, Belency we

with its ptriking force represent correct. Tunis, where their Total lack of ed principally in the concentrat are entirely innocent, in that

Det stick modern equipment

Through all this period the Numbers for practice: they themselves arrange for badly expose them to destruc-coured division, which was tangled political situation kept

These 31317. saam yuti suam ut tsut!. strenger in tanks than anything worrying us; it was difficult to With the giving up of only the best to be provided, tion.

of our the enemy could bring against

the web of intrigue,. plerce but they cannot be unaware runs, the line that we selected that the whole region was safe and burning prejudice that sur-

plan

for immediate capture of Only when he could be assured misinformation, misunderstanding, of the widespread talk, which for defence-was-one-that-would from attack was he to be allowed rounded even the minor elements Is most emphatically not cover the forward airfields incate to undertake offensive action in of the whole problem. A prin without a basis of fact. The at Thelepte. Youks-les-Bains, the direction of the coast line, and cipal factor in the situation was As long as even under those conditions he the Arab population and its ex- truth would seem to be that, and Souk-l-Arba.

these felds were in without the

our posses was not to place any isolated in-plos: management's

Frenchi plosive potentialities. sion we could, with our growing fantry gurrison in any coast town

in general Morceco Noguer, was knowledge, their "boys" are

air forecs, constantly pound he might take.

untrustworthy and worse, but he warking the racket of sub-away, at least in decent weather, In this Inculent I cang square- was the Foreign Minister to the stituting cheap Japanese or tak Axis communications. Wely up against the love of staffs other spirits, made from

would be in perfect position to for expressing operational ideas Sultan; all reports indicated that confidence full. resume the assault once contll-in terins of geographleut points he enjoyed the

59305, friendship of the Moroccans. potatoes or even wood al-tions of weather and terrathi ond and objectives. The lden of fight-

The Berce tribesmen of that arda cohol, or more often, purvey- our growing strength permitted. Ing to protect ourselves, where ing a blend of the good and For the rest of the winter, there necessary and of concentrating were a force to be reckoned with;

Phiton was fearful of difficult trick fore, our defensive plan eDTZIAŁ Weny is difficult to expresk, Such to his estimate, that if the Mor-

at chosen points to destroy

situation and still adhered to trace-but if only inspec- areas. Without them we would an idea implies great fiuidity and

antagonistic occans should tors would make regular un- be forced back into live Bone-flexiblity in operations, and con- announced checks and analyse Constantine, region and would be sequeatly planners find it dim- to us it would require 80,000 fully to keep faced in the following samples, the public might at with, the problem of fighting our writing. Beenuse

spring cult to reduce the conception to equipped Americans

of this they order in that regten nione. We

could not

did not afford-ond least be protected, even if the way forward, without suitable air resort to the habit of Inying out o

Patton culprits could not be proved. support, through difficult muun plan based upon the capture or have any Auch force.

1LS to let' This is a matter which calls tainous areas at the cost of great holding of spectic geographical strongly counselled. for action, and the author-numbers of lives. was convinced Points, and sometimes, particu Nogues alone!

One complication in the Arab

(The lesson on these opching words will be given over Radio ities could be greatly helped that no disadvantage of supply larly in strategic planning, this is

such tarigie was the age-old antagon- Hong Kong tomorrow evening at 6.30 p.m.) Nevertheless or of danger in these forward Becessary.

Arab if victims of this practice positions was to be considered plans

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streching from Teljessä. snulli contant for the battle line,fected to intensive Nazi pro- itud beau uneducated population ward to Cafen lid been provided except that of Alliel Force case when you wish. Other by scattered French irreculars Headquarters itself. The French puganda calculated to fan these wise you are unlikely to get relforced and inspired by a refused to serve under Britlali prejudices, it is easy to under- a bottle. This is a situation small United Stotos parachute command and maintained, that stand that the situation called which can only be solved by detchment under the command of that there would be a rebellion! more for caution. and evolution an unexpected change of a gallant, American, Colonel Ed- heart on the part of retall-operations in that region is a The story of the ers wito milght, however, re-minor épie in itself. -The decep- member that once a year al- lions he practice, the The DO YOU

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The

five numerals

re

all in the top tone.

-48484. gay boata saya boat3say3..... These are,

20262.

you

look

3

3

yee 3

look ឌ

yue. S

10307. yut1

ling

Boom!

ing tsut.

1

ng *

guuz ng

Fauz ng.

2488'10', yee saya

look

in the upper echoing tone.

in Thea

the lower echoing lone.

are

These show the dif

ference between the top and the bottom tones.

These show the dit- ference between the upper one the lower rising tones.

banta shup. There show the dif-

ling 200.0

look

Jing

yee.

3

ference between the

upper and the lower echoing tones.

These show the dif-

forence between the ty lower echoing 'and the bottom tones.

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