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Sooul, Dec. 12,

a few in a peaceful plain miles southwest of Seoul, the Turks

their are sharpening bayonets ready for another fight. In their first and only battle in Korea, the Turks left their mark deeply on the Communiste and won the insing respect of the their brothers-in-arms in United Nations forco.

That was in the initial shock

the of

Chinese Communist when the counter-offensive Turkish Brigade's 5,000 soldiers, surrounded by a Communist force estimated at four divisions, went in with the bayonet and fought a four-day continuous halile to chop their way out of the trap.

The Brigade's commandez, Brigadier Tahsin Yazici, said to- day: "We are re-equipping and getting really for another action. Everyone in the Brigade, in- cluding the wounded, wishes to fight again.

"I have just visited some of my men in hospital and they all told me 'Give us the opportunity to rejoin our battalions before they go into action."-Reuter.

Trautmann Passes Berlin, Dec. 12. Trautman, Oskar Dr veteran diplomat of the Berlin- Tokyo Axia era, has died in Berlin, it was reported today.

WES Trautmana

appointed head of the German Foreign Office, Far Eastern Section, in 1937. Router.

KING'S WAS

-T is difficult to realise

MEN WANTED FOR PITS. ALL SORTS.

(MR W280)

"I invite foreign workers into the pits, and what do you get?".

WHEN THE

London Express Service

COMMISSION FOR SALE

By Peter Lovegrove

MAJESTIC 7.20 & 9.30 their military career the colonel, precenly owned to

Man of Science

or Menace to Society?

Robert BEATTY

Mervyn JOHNS

Nova PILBEAM

.vested interests.

Knarf Went to High-School

-Octavius Owl Was the Principal-

By MAX TRELL

667 NARFT" exclaimed his

sister

Hanld. "Where'

afternoon? high and

have you been all

Wo've been looking

low for you! Did you get lost?" Kaart, the shadow-boy with the tumed-about name, smiled pleasantly. was in high-

school, Hanid."

At this Hanid looked at him In astonishment. "High-school, What high-school? Why, you haven't even been to primary school yet! How can you have gone to high-school?"

"That's what it was, Hanld- high-school.

"I don't believe it!"

"It was high-school because it

high as a school can be. That's why!"

was a school, and it was up as Knarf·told Hamid about 'school.

the squirrel, Mr Octavius Owt. slood at the head of the clase- room, teaching the lessons."*

"What lessons did he teach,. Knarf?"

to

All Afternoon By this time Hanid was really astonished. She demanded know more about this very high said he had bchool that Knart been at all afternoon. So, after

making himself comfortable on

they

"All the regular kind, anís hoy seemed a bit different on account of there. being so many

the Boor under the sunny win- different kinds of pupils he had to teach them to. For instance, dow, Knarf smiled again and ex- Knatt daid, shutting his eyes taught gnawing It's like drawing doho

plained. "This

high-school that I went for a moment as he thought to was up in an elm tree, high about them,

to the mouse up, almost at the top. The namely it's c

of it was Elm Tree High, and we taught in the teeth.

the Owl was

to the Mr Octavius

and to and squirrel principal."

also reaching and "Octavius Owl?". repentadhat's all that?"

Hanid. "Is he an owl. I mean, a bird owi7"

Knarf nedded. "That's what he is all right. He's an owl with feathers and he filles. His class room was in a hollow branch. It wasn't very big. But there was of room' for plenty

all the pupils."

Who were the pupils?"

were "Oh they

all kinds. There were two or three cater

llars. There was a chipmunk,

a

Very Important "Sniffinetic, explained Kaart, "and reaching and sighting are something like arithemtic, read- ing and wilting. But of course they're not exactly the same. The caterpillars learned spla ning instead of spelling and each of them was given a book and learned how to nibble every leaf in it. The beetles just learned serography?" said Hanid in There were Ave beetles. There

puzzled voice. "Is that Uke- was, a young squirrel. And there

geography?" a ladybug, a spider, were also

a horse-fly, a

"No, it

isn't, Hanld. It means blue-bottle fly,

how to keep away from frogs. dragon-goodness

and a mouse."

said Hanid, and keep them from mapping MY ing Purchase. It was in 1871

That's very important that he introduced these pro- They were certainly all mixed at you.

Where did for beetics."

"And what did you learn in posals in his Army Regulation up, weren't they? today, when officers of

same they all sit?" the British Army come

Royal B, undertaking at the

time to pay compensation to the They didn't all sit," replied: Mr Owl's high-school, Knarf?" The practice dated back to the tariff was set up by a

"1" said Kharf, "Humph, I from every section of the

days before the establishment of Warrant of George III in 1700.

different flies hung on to the just learned that there was much "It was strictly forbidden to officers for the lass of their Knarf. The caterpillars and the AT 2.30, 5.00, community and all start the Regular Army in 1060 when

ceiling. The spider made a web a high-school! Now Lan't that

The important?"

her- The Opposition argued that for herself in a corner...

Instead of answering And the beetles all roughing it in the ranks for his regiment, and his officers laid down, but there is no doubt

on the walls. The house brother, Hanid aimply smiled. bought their appointments from that the regulation was regular- the country could not afford to six months, that it is barely him. On retirement, these went ly evaded," writes the famous pay the seven to eight million

And the chipmunk squeezed So Knart never know for certain eighty years since the pur- to the highest bidder in the same author Ian Hay in his "Arms pounds required for compensa-

Owl's Elra: The think Mr Octavius chase of the King's Com- way as a doctor used to sell his and the Men", which was pub- tion; that the Army bad always themselves into holes with just whether she did or she didn't

sticking out. lished recently by the Stationery done well under the dashing, their heads

sat was Tree High was really important. practice.

high-spirited soldier of the tra- mission was abolished.

Omec (10/04).

ditional Cavalier

and type

to only Under this peculiar sys-

This work, the first of a series entrust its fortunes and fate to

on the tem, officers did not qualify

of popular histories

would have a demoralising Rupert's Climbing Adventure-45 for a commission by

Charles II once bought the Second World War, also contains lenders of a lower social cate- perience or merit,

command of a Guards regiment a fascinating account of Army effect on both efficiency and dis- clpline; and that to appoint bought it for cash. In the for his natural son, the Duke of reforms going back as early as Cromwell's day,, and mentions middle of the eighteenth Grafton, who had never seen facts and developments which officers by selection would lead to favouritism and backstairs widely influence. century, the charges varied any service whatever, and even deserve all such known. from 26,700 for a colonelcy took 5 per cent

"The Army," retorted Card- in the Guards to £400 for an transactions to help build the

Royal Hospital Chelsea. In the The purchase system, which ensignship.in a regiment of eighteenth century, prices rose lan Hay stresses infposed a well, "must be rendered efficient. foot.

so exorbitantly that a regular grievous handicap upon offers To render it efficient the officers compelled through lack of means must belong to the Army, and to work their way up by merit not the Army to the officers. So alone, constituted direct Purchase must go, and judicious

to the

morale and selection take its place.”

Counterblast

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COPE, 1940 BY KEA BERVICE, INCL. Y. M, RED, U. 9. FAT, DPF,

"I only hopo, Dr. Forris, that the hoavonly choir is able to stay on koy' more successfully than the one in your church!"

FERDINAND

Bottoms Up!

gory

J

frequent the

admission wealthy, incompatent amateurs, and he cites a case which occur

After long and stormy debates, red during the Crimean War, and which was mentioned by the Commons passed the bill, Field Marshal Lord Clyde in his but in the Lords, the Opposition evidence before a Royal Com Introduced a series of blocking threatened mission

the campaign, An amendments which officer of the 65th Regiment to wreck the whole plan. Card- (now the Border Regiment) had well then had recourse to a been promoted for service in the simple expedient, states Ian Hay, fald, having led the assault on and adds: "The Furchase system

I had been Ching Kiang-Foo,

after

and so attain extent legalis, and to that]

ed his brevel-malgrity. He next exten

became a

a brevet-colonel. Then, Warrant of he was

In the

in com- what the

by the Royal

the tion, the S III. But

could sane-

the

could annul. presenco of the So Mr Gladstone asked enemy, that command was pur- Queen to cancel the Warrant of The Queen did chased over his head by a very' 1765 altogether the purchase

a company.

baref!

young and totally inexperienced so, and at a

stood commissions captain who had just come out, of

sanctity. and he himself was left to lead either of sanction

There was a fierce outery, of It was said that the course.

had prerogative of the Crown been abused, and the authority But the of Parliament fouted.

The abolition of the system Prime Minister and the Secre- was corried out by Edward tary of State were within their Cardwell, one of the greatest rights. They rode out the storm. military reformers Britain has and the Army Regulation ever known, but not without became bitter opposition, and then only dead." without full parliamentary sanction;

BI law. Purchase was

And in conclusion, Ian Hay-

a pen-name for Major-General John Hay Belth, who was Direc- Cordwell was Secretary for War in the Gladstone adminis tor of Public Relations at the tration from 1068 to 1874, and War Ofice from 1930 to 1941. laid the foundations of the by the way-ays: "The name of almost: forgotten modern Brilsh Army by intro- Cardwell is ducing the short service scheme, now, but the great edince which the localisation of regiments and he erected so laboriously the linked-battalion (by which stood up well. Its superstructure has been altered more than once one battalion of a regiment re- mained at home while the other by the hand of time and the served abroad), instituting the progress of military science; but Regular Army Reserve and end, the foundations endure."

By Mik

12

one who really

After the boat is safely over? turned on the bank Rupert picks up all the things that were in it." Look, here an ice axe, and the two ropes to climb we were going to use with," he says. And the randi wiches we were going to eat. Although it was he who made the

ALL RIGHTS

mistake-that has led us auchy a dance Bingo has got himself home com fortably while have to carry this He smiles wryly, but lot back."

Cheer Beryl gives a merry laugh. up." she says. We can help you

by taking Bingo's things to hir home." So Rupert thanks them and says goodbye...!! RESERVED

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