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THE PERIL IN INDIA

THE CHINA MAR, THURSDAY, MARCH:10, 1930. -

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMQIRS. THE THIRD BOOK

THE GRAND ALLIANCE

Evacuation of Crete

First casualty

By Winston Churchill

A lot of Guy.

Someone in, Taipeh apparently decided to woo. Wi Repligte indicate that it didn't requires a 1. C. to persuade. K. C. 15. stop.

CARRY-

Seretse'n tribe refuses to DAY taxes, until thele chieftain is returned to them..

The Germen losses of their

men reboing, highest class fighting

air inoved a formidable

onu, parachute weapon from gik für ther part in Immediate events in the Middle East. Goering gained only, a Pyrrhio victory in Crete for the forces, he exponded thoro might easily, have, aivan hún Cyprus, Irak. Byria, and "even" perimps Persia.

Now why the douce can't we think up on, excuse like that?

Two of these had to return, but ho continued with the Napier and Nizam (a destroyer given to us

Another leopard lina, cvcpped. by Use Prince and people of

Besides the constant struggle from a zoo, this time in, Auckland. Hyderabad), and

successfully with the U-boats, surface raiders "It was Inst, soen, sold our cnbarked over 1,500 troops.had alrendy cost us over three report, "nftly ivclted in Ju the Orsi Both ships were damaged by

tons of enclosure." quarters of a million was near-misses on the return voy shipping The two -enemy That should have made anyone bomb and could, no.ags, but reached Alexandria battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and suspicious.

Tho. King of Greece, Gneisenau and, the cruiser, Hipper safely.

had, been remained poised at Brest under with the after many perils,

British the protection of their powerful brought oft

☐ fow days earlier.

A.A. batteries, and no one could Mindstor That: ight ulao General Freyberg: tell when they would again, was evacuated by air on instruce molest our trade routes. By tions from the Commanders-in-the middle of May, 1941, there Chief,

to Was

were

He was now an hour and a half late on his, time-table, and it was not until sunrise that he turned South to pass through the Kuso Istral. Fighter protection had. bech arranged, but partly through the change in times the aircraft did not find the alps. Sphukla, a small fishing village The dreaded bombing, began at 6 on the South coast, lies at them, and continued until 3 p... foot of a steep clif. 500ft ligh when, the squadron was within

precipitous hundred miles of Alexandria. traversed only, by, a goat track. It was negerstry, for the troops to hide near, the edge until collod forward for embark- ntion. Four dostrovers, under Captain Arlis, arrived. on the night of the 28th and embarked 700 men, besides bringing food. for the very large numbers now Fighter gathering.

protection The Western Foreign Minis available for the-return made with ters are to meet next month, voyage which was not to discuss how they may only minor damage to one des- troyer. At least 15,000 men lay walk into Stalin's peace par concealed in the broken ground Sphakin, and Freyberg's lour, but how to prevent the near Communists from walking rearguard. was in constant action A tragedy awaited the simul into South-East Asia. The

taneous expedition by Admiral Atlantic Pact Council, will, Rawlings, which, with the crui- however, meet at the same sers Orion, Ajax-and-Dido and rescue time. This separation of func-six destroyers, went to. His

garrison, the tions will serve a useful pur-force was under revere air attack pose, though actually we are. told that Dr. Jessup is expect- ed to recommend to Washing- ton an extension of the Atlan- tic Pact to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. This would be effected by mutual assign- ment of spheres of strategic responsibility. The weakness of this solution lies in the fact that it will confirm India in her aloofness, since Indo- China is regarded as the test case, and application of the Atlantic Pact confirms France as the principal party, not Vietnam.

Heraklion

SITUATION AT Goo.a.m.May 24.

HOOD SUNK PRINCE OF WALES AND CRUISERS, CHASING

REVENGE

The Hereward vins casually. At 6.26 am. she hit by longer keep up with the convoy, The Admiral rightly decided that he must leave the stricken ship to her fate. She was last seen approaching the coast of Crete. the majority of those on board survived, though as prisoners of

Worse

follow.

were signs that the new battle-, var. During the next four hours the Admiral King sailed again on ship Bismarck, possibly accom cruisers Dido and Orion and the the morning of the 31st, with the panted by, the new, B-inch-gun, destroyer Decoy

all hit. Phoebe. Abdiel, and three des-

eruiser Prinz Eugen, would soon The speed of the squadron fell to stroyers. They could not hope to be thrown into, the fight.

but all kept their carry, ali, but Admiral Cunning- A, combination, of all these fast, 21 knots,

ham ordered the ships 10 powerful vessels. In the great, Southerly course in company.

utmost

At the spaces of the Atlantic Ocean in the Orion conditions were be filled to the. appalling. Besides her own same time the Admiralty were would subject our naval strength crew she had 1,100 troops on told that this would be the last to a trial of the first magnitude, mounting eight board. On her crowded mess-night of evacuation. The em- The Bismarck,

15-inch guns, and bulls regardless of Treaty imitations, was the most heavily armoured ship afloat. Her displacement ex- eceded that of our newest battle ships by nearly 10,000, tons, and she was at least their equal in speed.

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·SHEFFIELD

had been

barkation went well, and the ships 4,000 troops carrying nearly sailed again. at 3. a.m. on June. 1,

sent out to help ser Calcutta, safely to Alexandria, The erul

within a hundred miles of Alex- them in was bombed and sunk andria.

TO-

The man who said that every picture tells a story hun't" bocia to the cinema. Intely, Negative. reauit.

Because of alleged evaston, of duties, the Nanking US Embassy's recent spring sale hay come to a photo finish

Poor little rich girl' actress in Hollywood claims. Be wasn't getting enough to eat. This dy her disuncity fod-up. Thnt-b- until the reporters arrived.

"Ink pourod. Inte waahluk," It all came out in the wasl}, though. The court declared, this was not the write thing to do, and differences have now been ironed out..

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From the, London papers just arrived by sea uinil:

To meet this impending men- ace the Commander-in-Chief,

"Learned British troops, Admiral Toyoy, had at capa our new battleships, King George V including Royal Marines, moved and Prince of Wales, and the Into Hong Kong yesterday

was, threatened battle-cruiser Hood. At Gibral- general strike. tar lay Admiral, Somerville, will over a transport dispuje."

Really amazing what these the Renown and Ark Royal.

211

The Repulse and the new carrier. Army Educational Classes can dip. Victorious were at this moment

tho

for men

about to sail with a convoy of The new order. more than. 20,000.

Judging by yesterday's 'reports,

for. no cause Middle East. The Rodney and there is now Ramilies, which the Bismarck Shanghai wives, to be suspicious could probably have sunk bad when hubby says, he is working she met either of them singly, late at the office. were on convoy escort in the Atlantic, and the Revenge was at Halifax ready to sail.

Impending importance

In the early hours of May 21 we learned that two large war-

(To be continued);

*

Becoming worried about bie of ever-increasing population Japan, "The Times ndypeptes that the baby blockade might usefully be adapted over thare,

Nobody seems to have considered as a solution the use of the foun islands, as rockel-testing grounds.

•

American governmchi rotams.” It has About time, too. "Ever had a noter accident?".

"Well," hesitated. Mr. Smithson, quasied the lasurance man

fit, met my wife in

in-Garage"

NURSERI

Pandit Nehru, however, ob- jects not merely to the post- tion in Indo-China-he has fald it down that India will haye no truck with either of the two great ideological blocs. It may be that she will have all, the more influence when full diplomatic relations are established with Peking,

ships had been seen leaving, the, Did you hear about the estate, especially if Mr. Panikkar re-

Kajtegut with a. strong cicortingent, who died and now lives in and Inter, the same day both the furnaced rooms? turns, as Ambassador. How-

Bismardie and the Prinz Eugen ever, before anything can be

were identified in Bergon Flord, THE CHASE OF THE BISMARCK- done to persuade Pandit

Clearly some important operation and instantly Our Nehru to transform a neces sity of virtue into a virtue of from Scarpunto from 5 pm till decks about 260 men were killed

impended, foshed into intense activity. Tho. the bridge, which penetrated necessity, something must be dark. The Ajax and, the das--and 280 wounded by a bomb

whole Atlantic control apparatus troyer Imperial were near missed

orthodox principle of

of concentra killed, the done to help settle the Kash- and the former had to return. Her commander, Captain G. R

Admiralty pursue the sound and mir problem. Under present Arriving at Heraklion before mid- 3. Black, was also

ning risks with the convoy conditions India and Pakistan, night, the destroyers ferried the ship heavily dumaged and set on

ting upon the raiders, and run- troops to the crubers waiting fre

cluding even the troop.convoy. cancel each other out, and outside.

At noon two Fulmars of the

The Hood, with the Prince of Arm appeared, and State visits to Washington By 920 a.m. the work whe Flest Air

Upwards of: 5,000 British and Wales and six destroyers, lett Four thousand men thereafter afforded a measure of are empty flourishes. Certain-complete. ly it is much better that the hat been embarked and the re-relief: The fighters of the Royal Imperial troops were left some Scapa soon after midnight on the efforts, where in Crete, and were au 220d to cover the cruisers Nor- tun voyage, bogan.. Half an Air Force, despite nil

Maby individuals patrol in the dreary, Iceboundi capitulate. Pakistan Prime. Minister hour later the steering gear of could not find the tortured equa thorised by General Wavell to folk and Suffolk, already on Pandit, the damaged Imperial suddenly dron, though they fought savern however dispersed in the moun- stretch of water between Green- should follow up

and failed, and collision with the engagements

destroyed

When the

tainous island, which is 100. miles Nehru and receive similar ac-

-cruisers was narrowly averted, least two aircraft,

The cruisers Denmark Strait, diers were succoured by the Manchesten und Birmingham claim in. Washington, than It'was imperative that the whole squadron, reached ̈Alexandria at Long. They and the Greeic soland and. Iceland known, as thei that he should: carry out his force: should be as far as possible 8 p.m. on the 20th it was found

to the South by daylight. Adthat one-fifth of the garrison res villagers and countryfolk, who wore ordered to guard the chan

ware mercilessly punished when nol between Iceland and the threat to go to Moscow.

Barbarous

VIC-F miral Rawlings nevertheless, de-cured from Heraklion

ever detected:

The Repulse Faroes

und But we shall not get any-cided to order the destroyer killed, wounded or captured.

prisals were made upon innocenttorious were placed at the dis-

vallant who

were posal of the Commander-Lis where by playing on mere Hotspur to return, take off all the Jealousy, What has to be Imperial's troops and crew, and We have seen how hard the shot by twenties, and thirties.

Chief, and the top, convoy was He himself redoood Commanders-in-Chiet in Cairo Bink her.

allowed to sail naked, except for, dane, and done, with reasoned to 16 knots, and the. Hot-were pressed from home both by

dostroyer, escorts.. from the military Tiki- able speed and all due splir, carrying 000 soldiers, re the political and

Clyde. thorities, and much of this pres- Sixteen thousand five hundred delicacy, is to help, bring joined him just before daylight:

sure was passed on to our foremen were brought safely back to about a real settlement be--***

contact with the unemy, who Egypt. These were almost en- responded nobly. But after the holy British and Imperial. experiences of the 28th Gannual troops. Nearly a thousand more World Copyright reserved, Re Wavell and his colleagues had to were helped to escape later, by

production, even partially in! decide how for the offort to bring vicious Commando "enterprises. any language, strictly pro

hibited our troops off from Crele should. Our losses were about 13,000 be pursued. The Army- was in killed, wounded and taken Jitic, and again the task fell nearly 2,000 naval casualties. They alone can counteract the in Kashmir. Responsible pub- upon the wearied and bomb-torn. Since the war more than 4,000 triumph of Moscow in China lie mon. in India are talking Navy

Garmin graves, have been cour- To Admiral Cunningham it; ted in the area of Malene, and and begin the great moral openly of war with Pakistan, was against all tradition to aban Suda Bay. another thousand at process of rolling back the and even the Socialist leader den tite Army in such a crisis. Retimo and Heraklion. Besides Communist lide. While Jai Prakash Narain, suggested | He declared: "It takes the Navy. these were the very large but un- matters, go on as they are, that Indian troops be sent into three years to build a now abip.. own numbers drowned, at sea with Communist disorders ac- East Pakistan-though this will Take 300 years to build and those who later died

In all, the tradition. The evacuation. wounds in Greoço. new companied with a revival of may sound odd for interna-c. roscuol will continue. enemy, must hava, suffered cast- communal hatred, and National behaviour. If it meant but it was only after much alles in killed and wounded of tionalist rivalry and bitterness war, he added, well, it couldn't heat-searching land, after conwell over on top of it all, the whole be helped! This is a dangerous suitellon both with the Admiralty troop-carrying aircraft were fost and wovoll that the deckion was on heavily damaged. But the position in Asia, not merely hour. Indeed, the one thing taken to paravere,

prica they pald, for their victory the Far East, will be imperille that probably, alone keeps the

By the morning of the 25th; cannot bo measured by ed. Many, especially in Asia conflict from breaking down brought off, but very large num

nearly 5.000* risen - had been "slaughter. will form the despairing con into open wan is the memory bara were holding out and shel-y clusion, that Communism is of long association together tering on all the approaches to the only remedy for the entire under the Raj, and many bat- Sphalilo,

were bombod and whenever they showed themselves Continent

tles fought so geliuitly by the by day The decision to rak troops of both countries side unlimited further naval losses by side only a few years ago. was justified, inat only in lg fm/pple of the decisiva rosulle, that may emergo from hard and wall“, China is at work, not at war pulse but by the results

On the evening of the 26th urtained fighting, apart. Trou now, and though the blockade Admiral ister hody called with manoquvring for strategis posi

itions. We klid not know how in Calcutta wringing his and the bombings continue, the Phoebe Perth, Calcutta, mny parachute divisions the hands and declaiming on the trade is finding its WAY gule and, nro destroyers, for result of what happened in Crete Coventry, the assault ships Glen Germans had, Indeed, as the tragio folly and fantastic lack through a variety of channels, shakin. On the night of the

we moda preporations for. homm of logic which hu had encoun. There, nothing much more 29th, about 6,000 man were com

defence against four or Aya of tered. The ordeal, he said, than a watching brief is pos- barked there witbouk Interfer-

thesd audacious air-borne com had exhausted him montally sible--even. If anything else, che Glengyles landing mandos. But in fact the 7th

craft greatly helping the work- and emotionally. No great ke: Interventions were joyenny 3.20 am, the whole boy was Airborne Division was, this only statesman. In the modern desirable. But the Indian on its way bacite and though one which Gooring had world, hos, soared to greater sub-cantipont ią, in peril, o

attacked three times during the division was destroyed in the

reached Alexandria Enfely. Battle of Crete. heights-in the barly days of if peace anth

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damaged by intimen boller Froom. This goods bulk wang due

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bring by far the most power- But the longer road is of ful influence to bear on the less immediate importance

future of diplomacy in Asia. than, the, short one-to, peace-mortal peril; the Air could do soners. To these must be add exclusive rights in Hong-Kong |

The position is a hard one for so proud un intellectual as Pandit Nehru. Ho went back to Delhi from the disorders

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