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WAR SCARES Yesterday's reports from Europe that war talk has in- creased to fever pitch can be taken with calm. The con- flagration is unlikely to break out over the week-end, and we can probably go to our golf and tennis with troubled minds.

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1949.

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK

THEIR FINEST HOUR

West African Invasion Plans By Winston Churchill

On August 4 the Chiefs of Staff Committee considered the details

more

on

resources were

tho

Staff Committee on the project. was agreed that the best place to land the Free French force was Dakar. 1 stated that the expedition must be sufficiently backed by British troops to ensure its success, and asked for a larger plan on these lines.

Plan Approved

Liverpool restaurant French

arted only at a stage of loading. when the time lost in reloading into faster ships offered no gain. in all

daya' delay from the ten original date became inevitable: ive days for the miscalculation af the speed or the ships, three lays for unforeseen leading troubles, the refuelling at two days for Freetown. We must now ho con-

pected pf Vichy

contacts, was

lying the tricolour and a white on the Mersey. Even the Dakar," brulled core

ning!

Just whisky, please. stand this overtaxed roda.

can't

You noticed of course that the known to be convinced that the budget made no provision for set Mediterranean was the destination ting up a memorial plaque on the of the troopships which were gathate when the Cricket Club loaves, An emissary, in a picket boat

government Keep your eye on

advises a writer.

'Tre ho think wo flag, would go into the harbourlessly, might be a bijud. At any expenditure; with a letter to the Governor rate, on August 27 the Cabinet What does

ginatics? that General de Gaulle gare their mal general approval saying and his Free French troops had for going ahead, Our target-qato Arrived General do Gaulle would was then September 19. aires in the letter that he had come to free Dakar from the danger of inuminteht, German 62 groselon, and was bringing food and succour to the garrison and Inhabitants,

Completed By Nightfall

According to our errant printer. "The Americancy Regulations At: 0.24 pm on September (Amendment) Ordinance" was the dritish Consul-General at Tan-passed as the Legislative Council Klar cabled to Adml, North Unfortunately, the proof reader's commanding the North Atlantle 'akin't make the necessary station, "a shore appointment at amendment. Gibraltar,"

art and repeated to the Foreign Office:

According to yesterday's reports, from "Jac Following

rebelved

setious crime in the U.S. there French squadron many every 18.7 seconds. One can just try to pass the Straits procced-imagine the underworld leader sit would be wall;" If not; and the

ing Westward for unknown desting grinding his teeth an 19 and tination. This oftempt may be 20 seconds go by, and he's run count defences opened fire, the British squadrons would close tined to take place within the

next' 72 houra. in. If the opposition continand,

The the British warships would

was not in the Admiral fire on the French Run position. Dakar circle and took no special but with the utmost restraint. If action. The telegram was repeated determined opposition was met from Tangier simultaneously to with the Briibh forces would the Foreign Omes and received at use all mear

to break down 760 am on the 10th. At this time resistance, it was essential that we were under almost continuous

should the operation

com-bombardment in Tondon. Owing to pleted, and General de Gualls the recurrent stoppages of work

the master of Dakar, by nightfall.

nir raida, orreare General de Gaulle expressed his

agreement.

CANTONESE BY RADIO

Vocabulary:

107. (yau),yau

Story:

BY S.K. LEE

Losson 31 (A)

1. Gau-shee, yau yul' gaw

,yun.

3

In addition.

Abo. Again.

Formerly, There was a man.

He was a wealthy man. He had a lot of money,

Many houses and

many cattle.

1

through

Anro

bed

necumulated in the cipher branch

Tho- mensage

wp

not marked

"Important, and was only decly bered in its turn. It was not ready for distribution until September 14, when at last it reached the Ad miralty.

A Second String

Admiralty that three Franch

type

right out of ideas...

•

Fifteen portfolios and every-

thing was fine... Tough talking legislators loft

only nine.

Nino

le ministers left to have Reda crossed the river-and then there were 'none.

..

The question now arises whether to refer rhetorically to Kulangsu Island as

the Elba or the 31. Helena of China's exito.

."}

If the Japk get even that minor defence force they're asking for, It won't be long before people overseas will be singing in a thiñor key,

It in reported from Lake Success of the 11th. This was the that the Dutch government may

normal

procedure

accepted at have to be investigated for un-UN this time by the Vichy Govern activities. ment and was a

a measure of pru

dence taken by them only at the All that remains is to ask Rus latest moment. The British Naval sia to join the Atlantic Pact and Attache reported at once to the we will be back where we started. Admiralty and aiso to admi

North at Gibraltar.

Ho is having trouble at "the

We

The signal was received in the helm of divided China" Admiralty at 11.50 p.m. on Sep always said he would need a taiv tomber 10. It was deciphered and home with a slip like that. sent to the Duty Captain, who

are not many There are passed it on to the Director of willing to pay a man good wages

Operations Division (Foreig).

•

employers

It should have been obvious to for just, sliting about, declares a bimself trade union leader. He is being Tukar inundated with requests for 'fleir Tukar names and addresses.

this

officer, who was

informed of the

sudition, that the message was

exp

.or

decisive importance. lle took.

"The legend of Mont Tremblant

no instant action on it, but lets that the name of the mountain

it go forward in the ordinary way means the trembling mountain." with the First Sea Lord's tele

grams. For this mistake he receiv-Just an old wives' tale, probably. ed in due course the expression of their lordships' displeasure.

ON the evening of August 3, 1940, I sent my general ap¬ proval from Chequers to a pro- posul for landing Free French, be informed of our intentions, But [ forces in West Africa. General General de Gaulle had to carry de Gaulle, Maj.-Gen. Spears his gallant band of Frenchmen and Maj. Morton had evolved with lilin. Many got to know. 'n plan in outline, of which the | Dakar became common talk among object was to raise tho Free the French troops. At a dinner in French flag in West Africa, to Occupy Dakar, and thus con-officers toasted "Dakur!" Our M

sault land-craft had to travel solidate the French Colonies in West and Equatorial Africa for or trolleys across England from near Portmouth to Liverpool, and General de Gulle, and later to their escort wore tropical kit. rally the French Colonies in

Then there were delays. Wo ind North Africa.

hoped to strike on September but now it appeared that the main force must first go to Freetown to Mr. Douglas Roland Bland, this plan as worked out further refuel and mako their final palse. If the Governor was amonable all

jon tiie eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. by the Joint Planning Sub-Com- The plan was based D

Frickley nitice, and drew up their report French troopships reaching Bakar Bland ог Fulwood, Derbyshire, Eng-for the War Cabinet. The pro-in 10 days at 12 Knobs It was Jond.

Shanchal, Singapore posals of the Chiefs of Staff were found, however, that the slips

based

tho three following arrying the Mechanical” “Trang- and Sydney papers pleasd

sort could only make eight ARNumptions:

nine First, that the force must t

and this discovery was re- equipped and loaded so that it could land in any French West African port;

tho Strondly, that

expedition should consist entirely of Free French troops, and have British elemente, except ships in which it moved and their naval escort: Thirdly, that the matter should

Chi the 22nd we met again, and be settled as between French-

a letter was read from the Foreign men, and the expedition would tent with September 18. land without effective opposition. I presided over a meeting of the Secretary to me disclosing a leak It soon became clear that Gon-Chiefs of the Staff and General age of information Exactly what de Gaulle an August 20 at 10.26 this leakage amounted to no one Of course, our friends and oral de Gaulle required more

Chiefs p., and am on record as could tell The advantage of ana relatives in the West have British support than the

They ming-up the plan as follows:

power used offensively is that more than usual to worry of Stuff had contemplated.

But we had a second string: Av when

one can afleet sails o

Roporta from England say that about. Britain, France, Bel-represented to me that this would The Anglo-French Armada would

commitments

-National arrive at Dakar at dawn, air mure where it is going to strike. 6 p.m. on September 10 the British large and

eight-months-old gium, Holland and Luxem-involva

craft would drop streamer, and The seas are broad and the oceans Naval Attache in Madrid was the enduring than those which

Health Service is generally ha- leaflets over the

town, the broader. Troplosi kit was a "lue officially informed by the French led as a success. The patienla bourg have been driven into had been foreseen, and also that

British sagadron would remain no more definite than the Continent setting up a master defence the expedition was beginning to Our

on the horizon, and French ships of Africa. The wife of a French-cruisers,

Georges Leygues, are improving, but the doctors plan that calls for all of them lase is French character.

at this time no|| would come towards the part. man in Liverpool, who was sur- and three destroyers had left Tou aren't decling quite so well."

lon and intended to PRSA tho to rearm rapidly, and asks severely strained that this exten

Straita of Gibraltar on the morn- the United States to provide slon could not be lightly accepted. additional weapons.

However, on August 6 I conferred At the same time in Lon-with General de Gaulle, and at presided August 7 don, the Minister of State, 11 pm. on Mr. Hector McNeil, claimed over a meeting of the Chiefs of It that Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary were violating the peace treatles, with Russian acquiescence, by building large armies and suppressing freedom. And as Iran, Tur- key and Greece continued to defy Russia,, the power-mad

'On August 13 I brought the little autarchs in the Kremlin

matter before the War Cabinet, were shrieking for cold war explaining that it went farther purposes that they not only than the original plan of a purely had the atom bomb, but hud French expedition. The details of landing six different partics at gone on to develop

dawn on the beaches near Dakar potent devices, which would and thus dispersing the efforts of 2. bring equality to man faster the defenders, assuming there was 3. than anything they had opposition, were examined by my colleagues. The War Cabinot ap had thought of before.

And of course dubious re-proved the plan, subject to con-

sideration by the Foreign Secre ports from behind the iron tary upon the chances of Vichy 4. curtain kept oozing out re-France declaring war. Measuring garding Comintern mobilisa- the situation as far as I could,

did not bellove this would happen." tion against Yugoslavia.

I had now become set upon this Meanwhile in

Britain, venture. I approved the appoint 5. which persons of ordinary in ment of Vice-Admi. John telligence believe will be left ingham and Maj. Gen. Irwin as a radioactive desert soon as the commanders of the expadi- S. Gawdaaye dzai hoh2 after the start of the next lon. They visited me at Chequers. on the alght of August 12, and we war, defence chiefs success-

went through all the aspects of fully petitioned for greater this doubtful and complex affale. 1 expenditure against a foc, and drafted their instructione myself. I. thus undertook in an excon- new bombers are planned. America, naturally, has the tional degree the initiation and ad- Dakar expeditio biggest somethings in the of

which the code name world, including mammoth was assigned. Or this, although I planes with the speed of Jeannot feel we were well served on Ught which are untouchable all occasions and certainly had by ordinary fighters, but bad luck, & nover at any time re- which fly so high they might ponted. Dakar was a prize; rally-

the French colonial empire trouble xreater conceivably have

There was a fair chance with flak from the Martians of gaining these results without

Certainly, the news has not bloodshed, and I falt in my Singer been encouraging, but in tips that Vichy France would not spite of what the pessimists declare war. say, we cannot see the great delay and

Our two dangora

and leakage, and the first powers blundering into war gravated the second. by chance. Attitudes in re-

time ite Feco French forces in cent years do not bear out the England were a band of exiled claims- that world war may heroes in arme against the start through some frontier ing Government of their country. thoir incident or diplomatic fracas. They were ready to fire on

own fellow countryman, and accent Even the top dogs nowadays, the sinking of French warships bý merely protest about de British guns. Their leaders lay velopments which in Vle-under sentence of death. Who can taria's day would have sent wonder at, still fean blame them a warship or an expeditionary for, a tenseness of emotion or even

for indiscretion7 force post haste to rectify the The War Cabinet could giva matter.

orders to our own troops without No one is ready for war, anyone fral the commanders and although Moscow is increas- the Chiefs of Staff circle having to ingly of the belief that the time draws near when the them, while at the same time find Armageddon predicted creating huge war industrial by Marx, Lenin and Engels units in the Siberian wilder will be ready to join, and the mess. America has had ita DO YOU decadent democracies dealt longest and toughest war on Bidak kuran blows from which they will record, and it will be a long KNOW nover recover, white the time before the public can bq pikk ja k dictatorship of the promoted whipped up to sufficient en-

YOUR shop steward will be nerman-thusiasm, while the war fac ently triumphant.

tories of the middle Forties

HONG have been thoroughly trans formed to the production of motor cars, refrigerators and KONG? radios, and would take pl most as long again to rovert to munitions.?

Can you to Neither side, however, anti- No. While the intelligent| opghiso - wher cipates the new D (for den observer cannot but expect this plature was truction) Day for some years another war in the next de-akantie An yet. Vast areas of the USSR cade or so, the time is not yet is 'in Page are still lying in blackened ripe. While preparing for ruins, and the Communists the inevitable, we chain dut will require years to rebuild off-moments-relox.

Similarly, the small but powerful caucus in America which in leren for a "how down" with Ruspla is pulling out all the stops to prepare for war.

Cun-

to

wore now

At

Kui hai yau-tseen yun. Kutyau hoh daw1 tseen. yau hoh daw' ook' yau hoh daw ngau. Kui tseng-doh hoh daw le employed many workmen -gung1-yuntung „kui ,dzoh gung'-foo'.

Ku yauyau leng kaw3 dzaj*:

foon1-hay,dzuh gungi-

fool;

daan hai, gaw sai" geh mfoon-haydzot,

7. Yau yut! yut,

2

gaw3, sai13 dzai" dui3‚kui wah: -"Bail-bah', tsing nay bay

deel iseen ngaw Jah'. yun!-wai ngaw seung* hups

dai yee shue kaang- bah."

8.

Kui bah-bali teng mun

kui gom2-young

„dzau dzik'-huki hon dawi tse yun'- wai

9. Ku

duk dgh deal

to work for him.

He also had two sons.

The elder son was pleased

to do this) work.

but, the younger one was not *pleased.

One day, the younger son said

to him: M

"Papa, please give me some.

money, because I want to go away for a trip."

him speak in

pi

nediately money,

him very

had got the

pleased

to

(To pa Continued)

However, the destroyer Ilotapur,preciation in various quarters, álf Jon patrol in the Mediterranean, was too lato. ships

at 5.16 The War Cabinet, on being sighted the French

a.m. on September 11. 50 miles to apprised, instantly instructed the the East of Gibraltar, and re- First Lord to order the Renown to ported to Admiral North. But in touch with the French hips, ask for their destination, and zinku Somerville who commanded

that clear

would not be on Gibraltar allowed to

to proceed to any Connan-

I which was bance had also

a copy of the received Naval Attache's signal at eight occupied ports if they tried to go nilaules past midnight that same

be stopped. But the сга).

never caught: A

morning, die brought the tombord. Casablahen to Dakar, they to one hour's notice for steam at eers were never 7 aut. and awaited instructions over Casablanca on the 12th and from the Admirally.

the Director

hazelay

13th. One of the reconnottring

about the

sion, and of the portions Divi-aditional warships in Cam

in consequence of the error of British aircraft was shot down;

presence of.

Casablanca Jelay the Forc

uk

harbour wore condleting; and the Jan Office upon the other

Renown and her destroyera waited Consul-General, the from the First Sea Lord knew nothing about day quid night South of Casa- blancs to intercept the French the passage of the French was squadron, At 1.50 on the afternoon ships till Hintapering the Chief of the report that there word no

signal whis

13th, the Renown received brought to him of Staff

before

the an meeting Cabinet. He at once telephoned the they were already far to the South- the cruisers in Casablanca. In fact,

Admiralty to order Renown and

her destroyers to raise steam. This ad, stearing for Dakar at full had already been done. He then apod. catne .to the "War Cabinet Bub

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