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"My most exciting assignment"--No. 3:

THE BURMA CAMPAIGN

Which is the more thrilling assignment; one

Burma.

which

My editor, who probably only thought that it was just a

By Cedric Salter

re

tors, with the

Arst

column, at dawn.

British

It looked to

me very much like a'scoop, evon

if a tragic one.

The United States

al

soccer,

can beat writes

#

My job done, I walted only to Britain see the oil refinery 10 up in correspondent-but can they beat

•

TIM CACOPt a stray cat, minutes afterwards, and UUT clephant's

What

its

statement.

overweenlug

makes it necessary, twice in six months, to give the slip to a Gestapo specialist in mental torture, who felt

amoke, and left, ahead of the the North Koreans? second, and last, British column, strongly about the very un-

which was still forming as i "There is no Immediate danger pleasant things I had dis against attack, they were

drove off towards safety. At the foreseen for the villagers....llving covered, and written about British prisoners of war,

tying the only sounds to be heard were last moment a kindly Scots ser- on the slopes of the 7,300-foot

the faint tinkling of silver bella geant presented me with a cap-high volaano cone," him, or one, which landed me They were travelling South fast from the summit of a great tired Japanese rifle and some Apart from one bad spell. in an enemy country 19 days towards the function of the twu pagoda, stirred by an inpercep hand-grenades which, as he put

the excited it, before our Armistice Com-reads, and, simultaneously, in81-ble breeze, and

West towards the

Might come in handy." mission and three days be-

wing of a vast flock of carrion] "It was a reuer to pass the fork

Unlicensed hawker tries bribe

to left-hand fork.

Just to crows, fenating in a side-street fore the arrival of the Red make everything cosy, Burmese on the victim of 3

oters, road, and turn slightly West to- policeman with $3. gang of looters.

Rewards Magwoo. What I

That was a pretty low thing to did not nith-columnists Army?

acar Tharra- Turning into the partly ruined Yet, despite competition, per-waddy, on the anto road, had general post-office I explored two know until later was that the do.

.. raps the assignment which gave

beers.

to attack any unarmed floors without discovering any Japanese reached that fork just

"According to recorda, he said, me the biggest thrill began with

Our troops were sign of life

weening age radio-telephone call from Lon- leaving in two columns, the first but on the third floor I found second column had to fight id always been known to be three has some 8,000 miles away, at dawn the next day, the second, two Anglo-Burmans, both fast way through.

years." which, early in 1942, ords away after the domoittion squade hud

asleep. One of them turned out to not know was that the bordering This

was full of Japanese from the Dutch East Indies to blown up the big oil refinery, be a telegraph operator, and in jungle

carly in the afternoon.

exchange for a bottle of Scotch officered traltor Burmans, waiting to arrive, all friends for kind messages Jind a small-scate map, obviously deserted school, with one eye saved from a demolition squad, «entry musi' have drawn o prec-i.abolished tea rationing, observers

After sleeping the night in a whisky, which I had narrowly for our second column to and quite a number of

these

Now that Australia has soen for looters, I

successfuly he immediately tapped out my a jeep forgotten 500 word appropriated"

description

the tice bend on my unsuspecting believe that supplies may go all

Lead as

I bowled along in my to pot. It involved hitch-hiking most of by the long-since evacuated capital's last hours. the the

very open Chinese Jeep, res-j miles 2500 m

in distinctly Chinese Expeditionary Force, and

Tragic scoop trained from pressing the trigger ropey RAF. Blenheims sal made a tour of the doomed elty,

military, only because of orders ret to vaged from the fall of Singapore, the seventh capital from which I

last censors, Getting lost

on had escaped in a little over three civilian and politician, in the

whose reveal the ambush. monsoon

Yes, I think that was my most the savage mountains of years.

combined efforts always make a Sumatra, and being An uncanny silence hung over retreat so much more difficult to frilling assignment; that is, of by herself. forced by Events in Korca move at

fuel-leak to land in the normally busy streets so that,"cover" than an advance, had course, it you call it thrilling to an unprecedented pace. The the penal settlement of the An- when I switched off my engine, left, together with my competi- be scared completely stiff."

daman Islands, effectively pre-i rate of advance of the invad-vented the journey. from being ing lank columns is a remin- dull, but I finally fetched up in der in a small way of the the Burmese hill-station of May- fury of Hitler's onslaught in myo, 32 ralles from Mandalay,

By luck 1 secured a lift, the West in May, 1940. The dawn the next morning. In the Allied High Command, how-car which carried the last orders ever, has responded to every to get through to the capital, or new thrust with a further of Rangoon, and the beginning of development of its tactical decisions.

of sympathy and for beautiful. flarni tributes sent in her recent, sud bereavement.

↓

PRETEXTS OF AGGRESSION

tion of calling a laxl, but, in fact, ឌques-

at

ders for the immediate evacuation

cision to place United States / Bay beautiful, country.

Nasty situation

.

uado

The

of

RAM. PRASHAD STILL'

HAS

NO

LAND

-By-

Still a dream

Once in Rangeon 1 was encour can't acres he wants, it simply]

the new damped

the out

of

fames of

•

•

"Suwon held by South Koreans.“ Don't know why she keeps on playing, said Myrtle, when she gets so stinko she can't stand up

•

A new type of portable canoe that can be assembled in minutes is being advertised

few

The makers. confidently look forward to a record turnover this summer,

"Traffle deaths climbed steadily today as the nation relaxed over Independence Day holiday."

Which only goes to show that one should relax in a safer place than the main road.

At the top of that Hst is the Integration of the 500-odd prince- ly States with the rest of the country. India today is united asj she has not been for centuries. Now Americans are ciniming to

Indians themselves freely adult have seen flying bananas, that most of their achievements I don't want to a pear bitter. have been negative, but claim but do feel our friends should take that even that is a matter for a good grape of themselves. pride. They took over the goy- Things like that are just plum ernment when the country, like silly, the rest of the world, was beset by immediate post-war problems. Then they were loaded with extra handicaps:

1. The withdrawal of British administrators;

2. The partition of the sub- continent;

of useful Moslems, including

workers;

Yesterday's headline: "Knowledge

Check Your"

Gee quiz!▸

"Jups want to help in Korean

war."

Nothing like keeping in practice.

and semi-skilled devoted 10 indignant mass

meetings...." The influx of 6,000,000 rew

front page docs look like that, as Mind you, at least one local if a lot of bad types had been

'put on their metal

Vishnu Ranade, a Bombay that little publicised, but brill- cotton mill worker, is today a antly executed, 650 mile-long bewildered and rather angry Alan Humphreys

retreat by Generals These have brought the Aghting

and Slim, which man, for, in the third year of bases in North Korea within Alexander

suved India from the Japanese.

his country's independence, consumer needs filled, there isn't the target areas for bombing,

Our 400 mile drive was through he is out of work.

a great deal left from the coun- and have also led to the de-a

In a village not far from Luck try's income for national deve through the heat hoze, now Ram Prashad is also be-lopment.

age-old pagodas, wildered and angry. A life-long Food imported forces across the line of ad-grass-grown,

tended by slavan Buddhist landless peasani, he is still land- vance of the invaders. This priests in orange robes, soon took less nearly three years after his

India is predominantly agricul- was a grave and deliberate on the

оп quality of a a dream. Wild country became free.

tural. About 90 per cent. of her the land and the peacocks, decision, forced upon

and parakeets like

people work on they grow more than 40,000,000, Nations by

silver-green arrows flashed from United

the

There are many millions of tons one three of flaming flower to

grain a year, but India appalling failures of

the another.

Monkeys whistled der- frustrated Ranades and Prashads can't feed herself. South Korean troops.

Last year her imports were isively at us ille cheeky urchins all over India today, resentful These were not equipped By night we drove by the light that the Golden Age which was valued at £100,000,000 and 3. The emigration of millions even to cope with tanks, let of forest fres. It by fifth colum-to come with independence is this £103,000,000, or 21 per cent.

nists to signal our ammunition still over the horizon.

was for nearly 4,000,000 tons of large numbers of craftsmen, "While the front page was alone conduct an offensive and fuel lumps to raiding Jap

The Government, is fully aware tood. against prepared positions on pisnes.

of this great body of discontent If hunger and poverty are the artisans, the border. They were, we

ind just about as frustrated itself. handbrake on India's progress,

Much as it would like to find relations with Pakistan are the tugces, mostly peasants, white- are now told, little more than

Ranade a job and give Prashad footbrake. police forces. That is valu-

of collar workers, traders and petty The Nehru-Lisquat Past the few able as a confirmation of the aged to learn that only one other

It merchants. Aprli really solved nothing.

It was as if a poor Indian age!- Since August 1947 unaggressive intention of British correspondent had man-

fire cultural labourer had been rud- rulers of India have had an animosity, but left the these troops, but of much aged to get through, though elementary lesson forced

upon smouldering, and it will continue denly presented with a field that less value as an effective de- there were two Australians and them--that walking must precede to smoulder until the Kashmir had been neglected for nine years and told to cultivate it with a 50 my an American, fence factor. In this crisis, were reduced to two; cable com- before walking.

problems running and that crawling comes problema is solved.

lame horse, and broken plough, # Of this year's Budget expend then had an iron ball chained to as in the almost continuous munications and

return trans- The phase when glorious free-ture of £252,000,000 India is advance of the Chinese port. If Rangoon was now cut

was chough has passed. The spending £120,000,000 on

Patched up Liberation Army all the way off from the outside world I must spending spree with more than armed forces, from Changchun to Canton, Mandalay as soon as I had col-balances, when enough fountain one-fifth

£000,000,000 of cash and sterling "Half our budget for defence, Well, he's managed it, but only of our hard-earned by putting into cold storage all the most disquieting pheno-lected my story. If communica- ens for ten years were imported foreign exchange for food imperts his hopes of a better future. menon is the inability or re- tions, still existed, then it was and the country appeared to be these are monstrous burdens," He's repaired tho plough, luctance of the anti-Com- worth staying on until the last moving into an era of plenty, is fexploded an Indian.

though it isn't yet as good as be- "Because we are poor

The administration of the fore. munist forces to put up a real moment.

Avisit to Headquarters, ankle India is now down to a crawl, underdeveloped we must pro- and dogged resistance,

deep in the ashes of hastly braked back hard by two inescap-gress, and progress quickly country has been kept running, when many unsympathetic out- That poses a serious pro- burned documents, revealed that able forces-poverty and hunger. "Because we are poor and siders forecast rapid chaos. blem for the

was moment. It the situation

unpleasant.

There are nearly 350,000,000 underdeveloped we are largely

But it's meant rapid promotion only one road of people in India and the total lo- hamstrung, spending our energles for a lot of junior officials and looks as though the American There was

resources on day-to-day that's produced some inefficiency, The horse isn't as lame as il was. Semi-skilled workers have been, trained and quite a number of technicians imported.

The

iron fugees has shrunk to 1,000,000.

By a great "grow more food" campaign India expects to be self-suficient by the end of next year. She can then start chang- Ing from Д "Jam-tomorrow"

back get

cable-head ot

dom

over.

troops will have to depend escape, but some 10 miles out of creases by one every ten seconds. and

the city it forked into two, Most of them are extremely poor, living."

her

one leg.

and

on themselves and themselves which then ran roughly parafiel, living from day to day, some even The credit side alone, to halt the advance of separated from each other by from meal to meal, and they all

None the less, India's record of the invaders. It also poses a some 80 miles of jungle. The have to eat.

It's credit paint to India that achievement since independence is problem for the future. Japsedging in from Slam to the

cast, had already cut the right they are being fed fairly well, one that earns quiet praise. It hand fork, and had erected teak but after this prime essential has may not be a long list, but it is road-blocks across it, in front of been met and other necessary a solid one. which,

48 on

extra precaution

You can still be put

in the stocks

By GEORGE EDINGER

•"No limit"

limit"

Safeguards

tor

Any hope that the decision to employ American ground forces would stop the North Korean Communists in their

at carried out tracks and avoid so grave a time and gamble as a head-on clash dawn without warning. It seems already to have been will be recalled that when abandoned. The invaders Hitler launched his smashing continue, as they began, to attack on Poland in 1939 he seek a decision by military complained that the Poles force and to try to occupy had attacked first. In the

"For how long can a per- Glass," acts that were legal when the whole country. The state- Soviet attack on Finland, ment that aircraft with Rus- Molotov complained that the son be imprisoned without they were done, sian markings have been in Finns had opened the war trial in Britain?" A foreign

There are, of course, safe- action is not reassuring, but with an artillery bombard- visitor posed that question --

and it startled me.

imprisonment guards to limit too much ought not to be ment.

I did not know, and three days without trial and processes made of it at this stage. The Actually, 'a solution by Kremlin has talked about armed force, of which the of questioning magistrates, police stap it. But they are not water-

officers, lecturers, and lawyers tight--not quite. illegality and aggression, but United Nations Commission failed to throw ung light on 11.

everybody arrested without a it has not really exposed its issued a recent warning, was in all the libraries of the Inns of Chief safeguard is the law that of Court I consulted every standard warrant. must either be charged true intentions, The most implicit in the refusal

authority on the Criminal Law. before a magistrate within 24 ominous feature of its atti North Korea all along to But that one vital question was, hours or else set free, tude so far is the refusal have anything, whatever to I found, invariably evaded, of the representations by do with the Commission or to both the American and try conciliation or mediation. British Governments, urging From the beginning North

My quest ended when a bar the Soviet to use its, good Korea was organised, armed rister, a great authority of Long But appearance in court does offices in persuading the and equipped as the sole in- experience, found time to give not mean trial. First, the polles ['invaders ... to withdraw and strument of solution. The me only two words: "No limit. can ask for a remand in custody That came as a shock to me up to eight days. Then the stop hostilities.

invasion was preceded by an

it is true that though The intention of the free intensification of the pro- imprisonings allowed by law areMoreover, he can do so repeat- limit" magistrate can remand for 21 is unlikely.

days. world is still to check aggres-paganda campaign which Many things sion and

unlikely to happen. The stocks, edly. There is no limit. to localise, the had never really ceased.

aro lawful; but no- episode, and to prove in do-

body

Main, remedy ing so that not only does what precipitated by the do- 90 years: So is the Press. Gong, aggression not pay but that fection of the so-called "eace though it has not been out for a But there is a remedy. payment is exacted from it. delegation" which was sentent to hold a man in prison 1679. Hill stands today.

writ habeca corpus enacted in Meanwhile the North to the South Korean border,

undried Indefinitely would equally At any time a friend or relativ Koreans, like the Japanese but later began broadcasting

national. of of anyone imprisoned, without freedom at Mukden in 1931, are tell to North Korea exposures of Justice and fe

trial can apply to a judge of the

• But that serve is being blunted. High Court and have the prisoner ing contradictory stories of the false statements and

Britain exactly how aggression" ideas about the South cur- clal empowered sous brought before, that court which

to soarch a determine whether his com the border. was directed against them.rent across;

mank

home without warrant, mittal be

Is a great safeguard;, but, British gillson for

broaking bardment across the frontler going on between an ado- n and another of the border quate build-up of the Ameri-regulations which Parliament har brakes upon it

never

nof - the courts About 20 times in the past 250 debated being crossed. Quite plainly, can ground forces and the interpreted; and, laws that punish years habeas corpus, har been It was an attack from North onward rush of the North backwardry His something out of stupended. And it does not ap-

GAME TATO DI Wrought the Lookinai ply to Acotland Maskinns denn, Korea, planned for a long | Korean, tanke

..

ino

Events were perhaps some for insteen put in them these]

And

And even arrest, with a war- up- rant must be followed by pearanco in court within a "rea- sonable time-in practice seldom more than three days.

The

Ong Version talks of a bom-1 Meanwhile, there is a race Rocopts! Ministara able to punian Fortunately, there are two):

ball of 8,000,000 re-

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