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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1048.

THE TWENTY-NINTH INSTALMENT

CRUSADE IN EUROPE

The squadron of kome half- dozen cruisers and ten destroyer

began the bombardment about Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's

eloven in the morning, while, the planes came over in wave after wave to drop their bomba

061

the

Own Story Of The War In Europe

Both

Komery

We

Alexander

In

tid

མ་་་་་

forthrightly

an agreement which, in effect, left exploitation of the Sicilian operation to my Judgment-but expected me to take advantage of any favourable opportunity 10 rush into Italy and which GT- phosised the great value' of the Forgia airfield. Sineo П manjor port was necessary to sustain its In Haly, the elly of Naples wan named. ns the other principal locality destrell by the Allles.

yards

neat

ihe not be

maintain

tha

selected targets, Reaction WIS weak and sporadie, Although all Reporters & General Office 32312 ships pressed in close to shore.

and small, speedy craft ran up. almost to the edge of the mole, great freedom of netion.

wise. shrewdl rather than

Bul the ships suffered, no damage. Europe. Allied ground forces gradually I came to realise that Cunningham and I were confirm

which seemed would be completely unengaged his mannerisms, ed in our belief that ittle opposi-

At this conference long discus- from the summer of 1943 to early strange to me, were merely acci tion would be offered to the ottork summer of 1944. We badly want dental, that he was sincere and, siens were carried on regarding ILK.$10.00 and that we could have taken the ed the fine nirfields of southern though he lacked that ability so the desirability of kombing

island then if we had been 4- Haly. Finally,

wanted to characteristic of

marshalling General Mar- the 11.K.$30.00 companied by troops.

All agreed that keep up the pressure in the belletshatt to weigh calmly the con- Rome. IX.$72.00

The Prime Minister, who was that Italy would soon crack an-1flicting factors in a problem and Eternal City. should then visiling with me in Afrin, | Such an butenine would so rench a rocltlike decision, I uselessly danged-indeed, this was very muxious to go along on! denudes the Balkans of Italian soon found it easy to work with, was the policy we pursued with cular rare to avold damage to This operation. I evides direct garrisons and so force Germany hlm. He did not hesitate to differ respect to all the relles, of the Rome and the Vatican City.

The bronti outline of LITTLE CHANCE reply but would never have to extend her forces still further.sharply and vehemently, but ancient civilisation of Italy-but

hils gedragt. agreed to

Mont-he and

and it was common knowledge that Stelian campaign was announced, were called to the can honestly, and heated official dis- the Germans were taking advon to our pres representatives one The efforts of Dr. Sun Fo, grounds that it involved, needless

risk for man of his importance. terence, in which Admiral Cun-cussion never affected the friend- tage of our restraint to use Rume month before it took place. This from his hospital bed In

But I had " dificult time indeedningham, Air Chief Marshal Tellness of his personal contrets or as a principal link, in their com-unprecedented step was taken, Shanghai, to form 3 new explaining to him afterward Unt der, General Spaatz

No Onni paradoxically, to and my the unqualified character of his munication system. Cabinet to meet the civil Admiral Cunningham and I had chief of staff, "Beedle Smith, support. He must be classed as answer was then resolved but crecy.

we were authorised to.. war crisis, seem likely to be always intended to participate. also participated. Mr. Churchill briliant soldier. So I listene Inter

To Be Continued Two years later he reinhided in was at his eloquent best in print carefully in the expression of his bomb the yards, taking part- denied any genuine success.

that I bol been very unfair to ing a cosy picture of the upper-idens at that moment." | Four of the most prominently on that occasion, especially tunities that he foresaw opening He said that he favoured!

members of the Kuomin- as he bart a personal fancial up to us with the capture of policy of applying our naval and tang.

including General stake in the enterprise.

Sicily. He insisted, in the con-air strength toward the blockading Chang Chun and Dr. Chen

A small wager between us had ference discussions, that he had of Germany and the destruction

estimate that no Intention of interfering with Krown mit of his

of lis industry but avoiding great LLIN, have declined 10

Here were no more than 3,000 preparations for the cross-Chan- land battion on the main fronts. participate, the hope Jus Habans on the island.

He offered

Was He held the brief that in ground

21 epeeened that I understand the conflet in

large theatre ww been disappointed that Dr.

y me live centimes sach topel attacks in 1844, but Hu Shih would emerge as a

all we captured in excess of that desire of the two governments would be al a great disavantage number.

took 11,000, and that the Allied forces should and would suffer tremendous and national leader round whom though I had naturally forgotten quickly exploft any opportunity use

useless losses.

He wanted to open the more liberal-minded ele- joking wager, he pak up arising out of the fall of Sicily. no larger front than one we could ments in political life might promptly, curing out ex He was

was fearful that we would bị- sustain in Italy. elo not know

whether

Nie Prime Minister be expected to rally, and in change himself and remarking terpret our mission in such nar-

that at that rate ( twentieth nf row fashion as to atop shori with agreed that favoured the inde-

with the part of this Vocabulary:— general there is no Indiea-

19. (hai) hai tion that Sun Fa commands

dnite postponement of the cross- anything resembling popular

Channel invasion, but he did, want support. His difficulties are

to pour into Italy the maximum 20. (yan) yun to be ascribed rather less to

amount of Allied forces available

21. problems of personnel than to policy. In the first place, in order to meet what the minimum conditions for continued American aid to the cracking Kuomintang it essential that he should

is

are

a real rach) he'd buy prisoners we could get.

thr

all the

With Pantelleria captured wo immediately move strong al elements onto its airfield. In the meantime wo further Improve<l ver mir air position by building a new sell on the island of Gozo, just of Malta. On Malla itself was stationed every aircraft that its fekis could possibly absorb.

the capture of Sicily, regardless of circumstances.

us

1

Since a normal part Of Every inttle is maximuni exploitation of victory, I was personally in doubt to just what the Frime Minis- desired. How- ter expected or ever, he did not propose in my hearing any campaign on a major with the Balkans, or even

taly, as

minimum

ย

opinion

in the Mediterranean.

WC

22.

CANTONESE BY RADIO

(koh) gaw

(you) yau

(mo) moh

Phrases: —

Any suggestion or intimation of abandoning Overlord could al- ways be guaranteed to bring Marshall and me charging into the 23. breach with an uncompromising, In late May, a month before we | objective. He seemedi honestly emphatic refused to consider auch were to attack Steily. Prime concerned in the quick capture of an klea for an instant. Not only Minister Churchill, with General southern Rinly but, ao far as I clit both of us still believe In, and Marshali and General Brooke, knew, no mare, at that moment. frequently repeat, all the basic

yau, yun how- In private conversation,

reasons for originally adopting that he | the Overlord concept us our, prin-

moh yun ever, Brooke told me would be glad to, reconsider the cipul strategic effort in Europe.

Foyut gaw yun cross-Channel project, even to the but we closely examined every extent of eliminating that bold proposal for committing troops

Allied elsewhere in the Right

gaw gaw af the concept from accepter strategy. He had commanded eventual effect of weokenlug or

yun yun corps during the short campaign strengthening prospects of "sur- on the Continent hi 1940; bothness in Overlord. Both of us Alexander and Montgomery had were willing to

and Sentences:-- served under him. Inspulsive by strive for, the advantages that

would flow from a successful in A.1. Haim hai? vasion of southern Italy-but we 2. Hai resolutely refusent to commit our- selves, or Allied troops, to an all- out campaign for winning the wor through the Italian approach,

Was

everything for the main operation nature, as becomes bis Irish an-

northwest Europe.

cestry, he was highly intelligent Against this there were weighty and earnestly devoted to the considerations. To cease beavy single purpose of winning the

When

first met him in attacks would eliminate all threat war. in the Germons on the southern November 1941 he seemed to me front and would allow the enemy adroit rather than deep, and

These and other reasons led to

form large broad-based

chief of the Imperial General Cabinet containing person. ages of every political colour Staff, came to my headquarters to

liseuss further the objectives tu

the carry out

reforms the Stelian campaign, other thin which are imperative to rest

the mere capture of the island eue China from her present assure free use of the Mediter

son route.

There was plight, and although he is re-something to be said for clustog ported to have taken the step down large-scale setivity in the of inviting Madame Sun | Mestiterraneus, - once We hn Yat-sen to participate in the Sicily in our sp, and saving government in an effort to form the necessary window- dressing for a coalition of all political organisations which

are not out-and-out Communist, he has apparent- ly been unable to satisfy those who might be willing to co-operate that drastic changes in policy are in- tended. Further, he is faced |with a strong demand from several of the provinces for alterations in the constitution which would involve the granting of increased powers and it's not altogether comforting roumel the saine districts.

This is a Malayan postscript) 15, where previously up to 200 The planters say this was due to

additional security forecs to provincial governments.although the situation today It has, too, resulted in the de- European-owned estates, Whatever his personal feel is vastly better than five months struction of many large, abnost They claim that greater vigi- inge in this matter, he clashes ago, when I arrived, just after permanent, camps, and the trans-lance has blocked the sheft with the war group centred the Communist-led Chinese band-fer from the fringes of the Jungle latex from their estates.

Chinese squailers This rubber went to the bandits, on President Chiang Kai-shek opened their terme campaign. of numerous

Planters and miners are sill who were earlier providing the who sold it to local dealers from which declines do sắc any warrled, nnd many are showing bandits with food, shelter, and in whom come returns showing

formation. necessity for compromise or the strain of recent months.

anallholders' production. This strikes one afresh after coalition, but instead would

an absence from Malaya of only create a smull emergency a few weeks. know because I war cabinet with increased have just come back from an and very definitely centralis-up-country visit to planting and ed powers. In these circum-mining friends I hadn't seen for

nearly a month. stances, the prospects are Now they mostly have their small that Dr. Sun Fo will wives back in their bungalows, be able to form a Cabinet but they are still living behbid That, then, is on our credit side, where, it is feared here, the Cum- which will satisfy all parties alarm systems in an atmosphere the risks fuced by

guns, barbed wire and different But all this hasn't yet removed munist gains may strengthen the the planters determination of Chinese Com- and the conflicting interests of markel tension.

and miners. The danger remains munists etlil leading Maluya's within the Kuomintang, al- They have estale. mine, and for them as long us there is one bandits. though it is possible that he bungalow guards-but they dare group of bandits free to stage an That is the situation o over

not relax.

ambush on the road or a dawn Malnya today. The Government Every few days their radios attack on a bungalow. And it is forces are right on top-but give news of planters and miners little comfort for the man at-peace isn't yet in sight, Nor can | who have been caught off guard, tacked to know that he is facing the planters and miners in muny and this news is always bad; only Ove bondits when seme friend bus fallon in adsunt months are there might have

three districts yet sleep securely..

These men and

their

wives along a familiar road, or un ne been 100.

aren't likely to crack. I have been quaintance been chiled doing the

driven all over Malayn,

5,000 routine.Job they all do every day.

road mies visiting them, and I know them too well to bellove that.. But no one can be expected to carry on normal peace-time Jobs indefinitely under the sort of atrain these people have endured for nearly six months,

TERROR IS ON THE

RUN IN MALAYA

of

is awaiting the outcome Madame Chiang Kai-shek's talk with President Truman this afternoon before issuing a definite sjalement one way military situation appears to or the other. Meantime the

the going from bad to worse. While successes for National-

some

Fewer Killings; The bright side: Is that some

of every few days.

hazardous.

By LACHIE MCDONALD

There is another credit entry in the balance-sheet, and it is pora- doxically revealed by a decline in official rubber production statis iles during October compared with September.

in rubber from small holdings

ist aims are frequently claim- months ago these killings were There was a drop of 15,000 tons ed, there can be no mistak-being reported every day instead ing the general trend of Cold figures prove the planters* events in the field, and unless argument that lie on the estates

totally

and at the mines is stil over- unexpected

DO YOU favourable change takes. The official Federation of place, it cannot be long bei Malaya casually. I to Nice 122 KNOW fore the Communist armies 2 ahuwa that we have killed 322 bandits, wounded 52, captured will be established along the 294, and detained 1,027 suspects. line of the Yangtse, involv- But the bandits have killed 283 civilians and wounded 157, They ing among other things the have also killed 124 policemen and abandonment of Nanking as soldiers, and wounded 158 the national capital. The Today we have more than o division of troops throughout reasons for this parlous state Malaya, and have armmt at least of affairs are all too obvious-23,000 special constabled, mostly

Malays.

YOUR HONG

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Money And Morale

B.1.

,yun

BY SIK LEE

Lesson 3

The verb "to be", any tense.

or number.

Persen, people, human be,

ings.

A

piece; the classliter, for "person", "round things" and many other things. To have; there is, pre; did

(nuxlisty verb).

Not having there is (are)

nol; did not

Somebody, some one. Noborly, no ann. **

One person.

Everybody (individualy). Everybody (collectively).

Is (wus) it?

Yes.

3.

M hai.

No.

Haim hai nay?

Is (was) it you?

2.

Hai, ngaw?

3. M hai ngaw.

C.1. Nay hal yun mhai? (or)

Nay hai mhai,yun?

3. Ngawm hai yun.

It is (was) I.

It is (was) not 1.

Are you a human being?

I am a human being.

I am not a human being...

Is there any?

Yes.

No.

2.

Ngaw hai,yun...

D.1.

Yau,moh?

on

2

Yau.

3.

Moh.

E.l.

Nayyau „moh?,

Have you any?

I have.

2. Ngaw you.

I haven't.

(or)

This means that we are hitting The bandits' pockets as well as their fighting morale,

On the debit side, again, is the

Altuation changing

in China,

3. Ngaw moh,

F.1. Yau yun lai moh?

Yau mohyun,lai?

2. Yau yun lai.

3. Mohyun,lai.

G.1.

Nayyau lai moh? Nay yau moh,lat? 2.Ngaw yau lai.

3. Ngaw mo la

•

(ory

Is there any one coming?

There is some one coming..

There is no one coming.

Dil 'you' 'come?

I did come.

I didn't come.

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