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SASS

SCANDINA

serves the world

Airlines. SYSTEM

N all wars there's more

hanging about actual fighting. thing in Korea.

than

Same

Why, No. 11. Platoon of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers didn't fire a weapon in anger until they had been in the country for 54 days. Then they were in contact, with the Communists for 10 hours.

Before they were in action again 108 days "passed.

+

By J. L. HAYS

TOO MUCH HANGING ABOUT

and complained and bargained over "Chicklets," "Chuckle Bars," "Toolsle Rolls," "Jelly Joys" and "Bors of Honey,"

ON

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1

NE or two days before Major- General Jim Cassels arrived to form and command the Com- monwealth Division, the com- manders of our three brigades met altue in Brigadler Tom Brodie's caravan.

John Rockingham, the Can- adian,

there with George Taylor' of the 28th Common- wealth.

abstemlous men.

nitting

is known

a

The strangest Socialist who ever came out of Eton... Bernard Shaw tried to get him a peerage

PORTRAIT

of a CRANK

JST one hundred years ago this month there was born! a more remarkable Socialist product of Eton, than either Dr Dalton or Mr Strachey, if that is possible.! Ila name was Henry S. Salt, humanitarian, idealist and' crunk.

Salt was almost entirely un known to the general public, but exercised л confiderable in- fluence on many of the advance:d minds of his day. When Gandhi came to England for the Rount Table Conference in 1031, he

nsied

a

}}

10 meet Salt. Another friend of· Sall's, particularly close one for n while, was Bernard Shaw. was Salt who introduced Shaw to William Archer, translator of Ibsen's plays and author of The Green

Goddess, and it was through this introduction that Shaw himself started writing plays, Salt was later a witness at Show's marriage.

Now Mr Stephen Winten, Shaw's neighbour in Hertford- shire, has written

t # book Suit's story. It also contains a, preface by G.B.S., an addition noteworthy for the fact that it was the last thing this inveterate preface-writer ever wratz: he completed the n'ght before his fatal accident.

Eton Love Story

Henry Stephen Shakespear Salt was barn in India. H's father was an Indian Army off- cer who was killed at the siege. of Lucknow, when Henry Was still

The

child, elder

Salt

HENRY SALT·

He corried 10 secret fa the

crematorium

by Montgomery Hyde, MP

used to call the natives "niggers" right of free speech he had un- and gave them the stick when successfully attempted to necessary for their own good vindicato, Only Bernard-Shaw Young Henry apparently thought seems, monaged to keep he treated his mother in the "moving on" without moving off, same way, since he grew up with rcated silke of his father's memory.

д

'Give Him A Job1 ́

Many years later, when the

He was sent to school at Eton first Socialist Government came

and thence to Cambridge, sub- into power, Shaw suggested All three are, normally, most sequently returning to Eton for a Salt for a peerage on the ground Fhort time as a master. While that he would be perfectly at teaching

the youthful arcto home among his old Eton friends crats there, he married Kate in the Lords.

"He was a good dancor,!" Shaw Joynes, the blue-stocking daugh- ter of a colleague on the school told _Ramsay MacDonald, ligeså staff, who enjoyed the disting- splendid. Fives player, and the L'on of having been the poet biggest authority In the world Swinburne's tut

tutor.

on wild-nowers,

♫ splendid But the

the respectability and cul- qualification for a backwoods- Jure

Elon soon proved ico man. He is a poor man, to you of much for these two enthusiastic will have to give him a sinecure world-be serers. Determined to like the Ministry of War or Live the simple life en £100 year, they left Etch for a collage you want a man who could get a Secretary of State for Indio. It at Tilferd, where they followed on with Gandhi, he is the mon a strict vegetarian diet, studied for you".

and wore Shelley's poems; sandals.

But then the plum pudding did hit the fan," For 86 hours No. 11 Platoon neither ale, nor slept,

their пог laid down weapons. Out of their 30 officers, N.C.O) "and" men, they lost two killed, and 15 wound- cd.

Such

was the Battle of the

'Our chaps, of lootirse wear their heads and mark on their formations; and also mourning Imjin River..

Jungle green drill uniforms maps: "No-foid." ம்:

with wide, floppy hats which SAW some of No. 11 Platoon they sometimes turn up at

out of

that

fight the side, rather sportily,

Once I heard an Aussie greet hunching riding. instinctively ngainst the sniper fire, on the such a sylvan figure, a diminu- blood-streaked plates of a rock- tive Cockney: "Wotcher, Robin ing.

Centurion racing

tank Hood!"

..And named "Cimballo,"

the Their faces were eyeless back at once: masks of yellow dust, and their be a Robin 'Ood than torn, hanging jungle greens robbin'------,” were blacky blutched

with sweat. They smelt of dirt, dust, blocd and explosives.

conc

But they brought with them

mortars, wireless sets And personai

ALL their

weapons.

❤

Heservist,

▸

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Once I watched Ron pulled out three tunes in ten minutes, shivering and gasping. Then his officer ordered:

Wind up the sounding equipment!"

But on this occasion there oc- curred what "thrash." thrush." + They

were celebrating the of worries inherent in the system of our brigades being scattered among other U.N.

their Independent the loss of commands.

It was quite a party; and not without its sequels.

Next morning, carly, Rock ingram

telephoned Brodie: "Tom, anything I promised you FEW days after Brigadier last night is off."

And Brodie to Taylor: "Billy" Burke relieved "It's better to Brigadier Coad, in command of don't know what I agreed

Commonwealth

give you last night. But you Brigade, he drove up a narrow, rutted, can't have it." one-way shelf of a road cling I surprised none of us that ing to a snow-covered hillside. MOST disappointed

Glosters Regimental-Half-way-up-be-espied-an

the

Coatney

*

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©

flashed

athe

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=

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to

though he admitted privately to

The Socialist Prime Minister,

that our porty badly

Playing With Fire Salt

Brens, Sergeant Major, John Hobbs, Australian water-truck moving the anti-aircraft gunners-togeturin His originai another member of the circle,

essence

cause

on

1 don't know how you get to

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of ultimate and dreadful lone be a Beefeater. But it wouldn't liness when only the infantry hurt somebody in authority to mants training, discipline and put his name down-dow. skill with his personal weapon stand between him and death. or wounding, or captivity.

When

you think of our Infantryman in Koren think, 100, of those seconds when he is b alone.

slowly down.

"Buly" told

encounter. 'It

WOR

*

same

Sydney

Shelley,

ause.

was H. M. Stanley, the

#t

Marriage At 76

In

Over the years Salt turned out requires a draught of the springs at which wo sat a good many 3 stream of books and British pamphlets, chiefly on Shelley. Years ago now, because the dust of the world is apt to get into animal rights (he unit-in-Korea is perhaps, human and.

was a strong anti-vivisectionist), its cyce, did not act on Slaw's But he did send wild flowers and suggestion, give them their full title, the 26 years with the regiment,

me inter: "I th behind with Licut.- toyed

(Sphinx) Independent corporal punishment.

Olivier, to the Upper Colonel "Fred" Carne, and his was wearing only a blue beret, R.A.

realised, to my chagrin, that I Light Anti-aircraft Battery, contact with Shaw was through House

their mutual interest in wounded on Gloster Hill in

The Sphinx that an American windbreaker

According to Shaw, Salt had' EL THE experiences of No. 11

boys brought Tatoon,

April. of its young

covered would no

my shoulder-tabs, that torry-mounted Botors enti-air-explorer, who hit the nail on the a personal tragedy. His wife, more have there was nothing about me er craft guns to the Korean parly; head when he met releaed Kate, would not consummate subaltern, Humphrey Walker,

Bered

to John Hobbs to and The Inevitable marled leave his Commanding Offeer

cep to indicate I the Jeep

Avas the and all sorts of mysterious radio members of the Salt circle, "You their marriage, calling herself an you Urning. Apparently she got the funny people, Corporal Berle ihan to

now brigadier. I realised, too, devices, too. duck shaving on 2 that

asked them the falure of my whole

idea from her close friend, Shelleyites," said But nobody

famous Scott, are the

of "below-zero" morning.

toexplorer. "You are playing at a Edward Carpenter, who taught Infantry fighting in all its Yet it must have hurt. Be command might well rest

on play

They say

they haven't seen safe distance yourselves, maybe, her that Urnings are a chosen monotonous drudgery.

John Hobbs spent five this

an enemy plane from the day with fire. In spreading Shelley race. She later went off her Long periods of waiting and years of World War Two in moment of high drama," watchfulness (one

you are indirectly helping to stir head, spending most of her time So hour 20 the bag" in Germany. He was

the two vehicles halted, they arrived.

But the Bofors In "dual up the great Socialist quen lan, convorsing with an old oak tree. minutes guard every night, captured just outside Dunkirk, bennet to bonnet. rain or shine) and patrolling in

The 1940.

Australian was the first purpose" gun. It can be used the great question of the needs "Go and tell the bak, Henry," Jr Junc,

Wents and wishes (company

of she would say, patrol every

with great effect against ground am four I last san John Hebbs

to speak. days, platoon "party" every the Glosters "Back.

"This, cobber," he said, un- targets. In this department the unhappy men, the only question Badge

which bids fair to swamp you emotionally, 12) and the downright back Day." a month before the April

"Is the water gunners have had

good

all" shoots. truck

After her death Salt married breaking navvying" of digging fighting.

✡

It nearly did swamp Salt and a

woman whom he met and wiring, of filling sandbags

We had a beer together then,

se to the occasion.

his friends one Sunday in 1887, Brighton, where he had gone and planting minefields.

and he told me that when he

this," he said, tapping, WE owe an enormous debt to when they joined a Labour to live. "So far as I know," Then--come day, sooner or retired he

his chest, "is the brigadier. wanted to be

the pilots of the American demonstration in Trafalgar said อ Without a later the sudden

Shaw it was a comfort- shock

Eeefeater in the Tower.

word," "Billy" ambulance helicopters.

Square, which was broken up by able normal marriage," although baltic, and those few seconds

told me, "the Australian back- There Yanks have been the police, having previously ed his water truck to the top superb, flopping their ungainly been banned. John Burns and at was 70 at the time he began and as I drove by chopped to tops and into the paddles to col-arrested, while Salt lost his tacking in a sense of humour of the hill. Then he got out, "windmills" down on the hill Cunninghame Graham were

That Salt was by no means attention and gave me a crack- lect our wounded.

watch through his pocket, being

may be thered from his ing salute.

As often as not, they carry out picked by one of these whose description of how he used, to "It WOB correct in every their errands of mercy under

choose a frock' for. detail-but I drove on,' feeling often

second AND HIS CIRCLE. By wife. somehow that had been in- It'a

a bit "lump-in-tho-

Stephen Winston. Hutchinson, 101. "I first sulted."

her, ascertain from throat-making" to hear the cry

before I enter the shop, that go out dor a "windmill;" to

is quite proper for me to accom OLDIERS are never satisfied watch the still, figure loaded

pany her, Then, no sooner am WITH so many "old soldiers,"

with NAAFI, But as I have into the stretcher compartment

Inside, than all the establish- officers and men alike, 29th

seen that "much-abused institu- under the fuselage; to watch the

rushes: at me with warning of Brigade boasts a formidablo anything kept us alive last tien operating in Korea, it hasn't "Windmill swirl away out

s undressing here!! array of decorations and cam- winter It was tho *space done a bad job at all.

the battle; and to know that heater,"

Certainly some

within 20 or 30 minutes the prices are Wiki unusual case la And the Americans, with high, but comes hot weather chap who "bought it" will be Major "Robbie" Leith Mac- their usual generosity, distri- and in the minds of most of our on an operating table in a of the Royal Northum-buted them to all U.N, contin- troops NAAFI becomes synony-pital, with all the skill and de- chromium-glittering basa hos- Fusiliers, who wears

gents.

mous with beer and there is

votion of United Nations his battledress a Distinguish- hear the War Office Lapm- plenty.

NAAFI

I has shown imagination Exons and nurses at his ducing a British model. If they ed Flying Cross, won as дл H.A.F. Mustang pilot in World are to do any good they should and drive in opening its

own posal. breweries in Japan (producing reneh Korea by the middle War Two, and

Military

of first an excellent lager at ds. d. for Cross, won as a company com- November, when the mender

from Siberia: big boitle) and sending the In the Imjin River sjabbing, winds

stuff over. in chartered ships. start. buttle in April.

་བ I wonder how many

典 British officers can clairo AN Australian comparat, Ron A generous

MERICAN rajons include a decorations from two such A Coombe, of Victoria,

*"","facrement" of utterly different fighting jobs? the strangest job in Korca. He chocolate

what the G.1.8, call "candy"

bolled sweets is the "sounding rod" for the and do on THE Aussies

Zealanders share. ...the When the

These are not light-hearted freezing Ausles *Berounging honours in Korea. Ing for fords in the rain-

I shudder to think how many swollen wrivers they fix a wire energy foods, scientifically pre- what campaign they could pos- "buckshoo" jeops, trailers, to Ron's belt and tell him to Pared and most fighting soldiers sibly have been made for,

are young enough to be bother. Any explanations? Why ovens, tents and spare wheels "keep on going,"

would the British Army have (ed by: a ̈sweet tooth. 2.5 they have acquired through When he disappears bennataven so, we got a lot of laughs, needed sealskin caps in 19107 what thay terngly, describe as the muddy Waters they haul ay hard was plita, cynical him out like a fish, shake toughened infantrymen, argued "Anglo-American relation

•

paign ribbons.

But a

otheA

THE nest item of equipment in Korea is the American "space heater."

This looks rather like a stee! barrel with a chimney. Diesel fuel is fed into it through D carburetter, making it possible to control the heat,

I

has

gum/

sur-

dis-

were precious few HERE

laughs last winter. But the War Omed, truc to form, provided one:

Our reluctant and bewildered Ordnance began to laste huge, weighty, scalakin caps with the dale "1010" inside them.

And during the long, darks, evenings there was animated debate on

and the Now Australian Cattalionen“ luxuries. They are - quickmany

200

an

(MORE TOMORROW)

• SALT

*** Hl. bosa, Mr Atties'wante to know If `wo*co-lésking Note:

on the election

ment Deeply

criesgraced..

om put fo cit in a pozsoga while Catherlite tries on a velvet dress. Oh, she will only be a minule or twol' She is about in hour and meantime I am so. and confused by the passing to fro of customers and attendants. that when she" docs emerge (in the velvet) I don't know her and mistake her for an attendant. waiting to fit bomething on me.” The Last Question

de viata. - Vegetarianlamı, and inv recont marriage evidently. agreed with Salt, as, he Uved, to bo 88. He wrote an address; to be delivered at his cremation: -But there was one, questoh

to which Henry Salt felled to pro- vide an answer, although, frequently Asked it." "What is it ibat-maker.

оль · person caro "éd! amazingly for anothery" "+" In whe a sobret which he carried withth [himsbit to the crematorium

ho