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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1951.

Elbouang aside a

herd of Lords.

Maxwell Fyta is sick of people

Just discovered

casting doubt

on his Welsh parentage.

There are not enough

men or materials go round

we spy Rab Büller

groped by Cily friends who fear he is not

what they paid for

Already Macmillan has bagim inspecting models

for his 300,000 houses.

"OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

Ah, here is MEC. conducting, his

"Sone-cigar-butts"

Economy campaign

Poor Sandys wondering,

how to sell The sterk vidustry!

back to ex- Shareholders who dont

Emerali dy arrangement with. Buts Ferula

want to buy

t.

LONDON'S "SOUTH PACIFIC” FIRST NIGHT

It's

not in the same

street as "Oklahoma

says

BEVERLEY BAXTER

London. galleryites, after hours of could not contain itself: A great, to thrilling British cheer swept over

FT is not an easy task for waiting for the doors

Faced with an utterly undis-

the critic to keep his open, felt that they had our national theatre as If Stalin had announced that he was going judgment

detached entered the inner temple. to disarma. from the atmosphere of

came a They

to their task spectacular premiere such with the same reverence as criminating gallery which was 23 when the triumphant opera lovers listening to determined to swallow everything "South Pacific" reached "The Ring" at Covent Gar. and anything and declare it food fit for the gods, the critic had to Drury Lane. For the last den.

watch out that he did not move two years or more this Rod- On such an enchan ed evening, too far in the other direction. The gers and Hammerstein epic how could you expect the gallery temptation to debunk a Broadway mind success is obvious, just as the New has been spoken of with to keep that alertness of

with which they approach a York critics love to belabour a awe by those

fortunate British play or musical? They had British Importation that does not enough to see it in New come to cheer, and no hing would piense them. York. In fact, to secure dissuade them. When Mary Martin Bat we all owe much to Oscar two seats for it over there actually soaped her head-with Hammerstein raised your social standing, tal soap, mind you--in the lively Rodgers for

song, "I'm Gonna Wash That Man genius in breaking through the No wonder then that the Right Outa My Hair," the gallery established

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS

"CLOSING THE RING" - CHAPTER 34

TECHNICAL PROBLEMS OF CROSSING THE CHANNEL

In order to construct suffi- etent landing-craft to make the "Overlord” landing in Normandy possible with five divisions (instead of three}, D-day had been postponed until early in June, 1944.

Mr Churchill telegraphed

to Gen. Marshall on March

that he was

"harden-

ou

this "to

much ing Very operation" and wished strike. If humanly possible, even if the limiting

oph- ditions we laid down at Moscow are not exactly ful- filled."

be

into

K Adml, Ramsay commanded two

This alone involved an

each having its cwn Concentration

and Richard their courage and

Imitations of the

play. I believe that "Oklahoma" will live for a hun- dred years. "Carousel" will not quite so long. Then what of "South Pacifle?"

live

Briefly, this is a drama of the

recent war in the South Pacifie based on a book of short stories which won for its author the

coveted Pulitzer Prize. Oscar Hammerstein and Joshua Logate (author of Mr Roberts) adap.ed it for the stage Richard Hodgers put it to m

a

im-the

Or Byrod

The American fleet has occupied Polynesian island In the Pacifie and you know what American sailors are at any rate In the heatre. Mr Hammerstein, who is a most generous and lovable creature, has constituted himself be absorbed due course

Then there were the tides

the poet of the inexpressives. Not the "Mulberries."

we landed at high tide the under- Task Forces, one British and the mense amount of thought and for him the high-falu in nonsense Coastal ekreas were of Romeo and Juliet, teasing each On the suggestion of Adml. water cbstacle would obstruct the other American. The Eastern Task action.

visitors; censorship other about the Inconstant moon. Tennant, who was in charge of approach; if at low tide the troops Force, under Adml. Vlan, would banned to

aTo Mr Hammerstein there is more the operational side of the would have far to go across the control all naval operations in the was tightened; letters after

were held Adml Kirk, certain date

back "Mulberry" plan, it was agreed

Many other British actor.

romance In

a sex-starved marine ee exposed beaches.

for from delivery; foreign embassies saying to a girl, "Gee, I donna that all the "Gooseberries" factors had to be considered, and U.S.N., operated similarly

were forbidden to send cipher what to

By than in all the lyric should

to land the American First Army.

say," 1 was finally decided composed of bluck-

telegrams and even their diplo- ships, although this meant using about three hours before high

beauty of Shelley or These two commands contained matic bags were delayed. Moving water.

Yet it must be admitted that in many more vessels.

Eve assault forces, each carrying

"South Pacific" the plot does get under their own power, they could

But this was not all. The tides the fighting elements of a division

away from the "guy and dame" quickly reach the scene

Stuff for a time. In fact we are and be sunk in the right place, varied by 40 minutes between the and

give close

asked to give our thoughts to no thus providing a certain amount castern and western beaches, and specialised craft to

lees a person than the attyish M. of shelter almost at once. All there was a submerged reef in one support to the troops in of forces

five of the British sectors Each sector landings. Here was the hard co

de Becque, who had inadvertently had to have a different "H-Hour," of the attack.

honourably killed

a man in which varied from one place to protecting the assault forces wouldUR major deception was to

pretend that we were coming France and had fled to the Islands another by as much as 85 minutes. be the powerful Allied Navles and across the Stratis of Dover. It for the peace of forgetfulness.

Pursuing this admirable coun Air Forces.

course would not be proper even now Only on three days in each

Poly- to describe all the methods em- he had wed or bedded a Pal From the embarkation peris, lunar month were all the desired

nesian woman who had presented enemy, fullled.

tu mislead conditions

The

ployed first stretching from Felixstowe on

the obvious but

ones of heavy him with two children, and then three-day period after May 31, the cast to the Bristol Channel concentrations of troops in Kent she departed from this world and arising

date, on the west, shipping would and Sussex, of could Gen. Eisenhower's target

fleets of small the story. But since romance ex swim ashore had already been was June 5, 6, and 7. Thus was be brought coastwise in convoy craft collected in the Cinque abbors a vacuum, Mary Martin

successfully used in the Medi- June 5 chosen. If the weather to a rendezvous near the Isle Por

turns up as a wartime nurse and be 題

Wight.

From

the Ports, of landing exercises on terranean, and would certainly were not propitious on any of of

in-Monsieur de Becque talls deeply Nor the nearby beaches, of bridle or a spur. The be wanted again. There was those three days the whole opera- vast armada ould sail to Nor- creased wireless activity, were in love.

mandy. Because of the great all used. reader of these volumes will also a process of "waterproofing" tion would have to be postp congestion in our southern ports

W; -

always willing to join with vehicles to enable them to drive whole month if we waited for the and to help our deception plans, made at or over the places we

under their own power noon. ashore the United States in a direct through several feet of water. assault across the Channel

Meanwhile he had been studying, since his return from Marrakesh, the techni- cal problems Involved, some of which are discussed be- low.

T

HOUGHT

from factual perience may

could be laid in four or days.

The Phoenix" concreto caissons complete the "Mulberries" would be towed over by insta]- ments, but this would take at least 14 days.

tr

"D.D."

be aware that while I was ordinary

tanks which

tracked and wheeled at least a fortnight-indeed, a

on the German seafront in Hard experience France, I was not convinced

that this was the only way at Dieppe

of winning the war, and I

ture.

те

This

the

themselves

By April our plans were tak-

final shape. ing

The Second British Army, under Gen. Demp-

Surrounding and

here

the

More reconnaissances were

the heavy

naval bombarding forces would

assemble in the were not going Clyde and at Belfast

sey, was to land three divisions Three-week

on beaches north and northwest

of Caen. One airborne division assault

was to be dropped, a few hours

Build-up over Lessons from previous large- scale exercises, and, of course beaches from our hard experience, ht applled in nal

but

to than at the Now this exclled New York places we were. The final re-theatregoers to a state of frenzy. sult was admirable. The Ger- Fifty-year-old company directors man High Command firmly be rushed to the theatre to see the lieved the evidence we obliging-

conquest

middle-age over ly put at their disposal. Rund youth. The excellent but mature stedt,

the Commander-in-Chief baritone Mr Pinza of the opera on the Western Front, was con- was cast for the part over there vinced that the Pas de Calais and became the rage of New York Youth had had is day, was our objective.

October had replaced June,

The

the of concentraion

two

must

be

knew that it would be a very THE theory-and practice batore, northeast of Caen to heavy and hazardous adven- amphibious operations had capture the bridges over the lower THE mighty offensive assigned to Bomber Command had long been established by

and protect the eastern already been in progress for assaulting forces-178,000 men, Orne

But do Messrs R. and H: expect Combined Operations Staff, flank.

many weeks. The Allied Tacti- 20,000 vehicles, and many us in England to get excfled over The fearful price we had had under Admi. Mountbatten, who had been succeeded by Gen.

On the British right the First cal Air Forces, under Air Chlef thousand tons of stores, all to this phenomenon? Here in these to pay in human life and blood

It had now

to be U.S. Army, under Gen. Omar Marshal Leigh-Mallory, not only be shipped in the first two days North Sea Islands of ours, the for the great offensives of the

in itself an enormous blush of youth has never had a First World War was graven in

to all concerned, in ad- Bradley, was to land one division helped the heavy bombers by was dition to the thorough general

Vire destroy enemy communications task. It was handled principal-chance against the greying temples on the coast east of the my mind. Memories of the train

needed for modern estuary and one division north of and isolate the battle area, but ly by the War Office and the of middle-age. And quite right, Somme and Passchendaele and

Otherwise

why grow up? of course had . The latter would be sided by also had to defeat the enemy's railway authorities, and with too. lesser frontal many

attacks

Martin To ream to Mary and un in Britain a previous drop of two airborne Air Force before the battle great success. upon the Germans were not to long been going

and America in exercises, great divisions few miles inland began on land.

From their normal stations all her Frenchman, Mr Wilbur Evans, be blotted out by time or

and small, with live ammuni- Each Army had one division in

the troops were who plays the role, sings to her German airfields and installa- over Britain Лlection.

and tion. Many officers and men ships for immediate reinforce- tions were attacized for three brought to the southern counties, Some Enchanted Evening,

fato dreds stretching romet me copless that I found it It still seemed to me, after a entered into battle for the first ment.

weeks before D-Day in growing inch round to Cornwall and render and hauling. quarter of a century,

that time, but all bere

weight of bombardment, while fortifications of concrete and like seasoned troops.

fighter sweeps tempted the re- the Bristol Channel. The three mumbered among the best things luctant steel armed with modern fire-

For airbeanie divisions which were Mr Rodgers has written enemy to battle,

But the initial tesk

But Mary does not suspect task to drop on Normandy before the assault fully manned

itself the power, and

by trained, resolute men, could

was to protect our naval forces sen nesault were assembled close the

when the ends out only be overcome by surprise

and convoys in time or place, by turning Dieppe, were

to neutralise the would set out. included Caen, Bayeux, Isigny, enemy's radar installations, and, which culminated in early May.

while joining in the joint bou. No sign Our plans had to be altered and Carentan. When these were and kept up to date as fresh gained the Americans would bardment plan, additionally to

The Cotentin provide fighter. cover over the Luftwaffe the advance Beregs information came in about enemy. Constant air recon peninsula, and also drive north- anchorages and beaches,

Before D-Day' preliminary als naissance kept us informed of ward to expture Cherbourg what was going on across the British would protect the Ameri- attacks had been delivered on ROM their concentration areas batteries, not in rear troops were brought Channel. And of course there can tank from counter-attack many coastal bombard bombard- were other ways of finding out from the east, gaining ground merely those covering the in- forward for embarkation

Many trips

to cantos in the essigned priority were made by

where we could create airflelds make of deception, all along the marshalling areas

pear the French shore. On the right be- coat. At the marshalling

Fortunately the second act was could easily have ready other some doubtful point, to take and use our armour.

were divided up into lines behind their Arst, and the soundings inshore, to examine

fore D-Day. a great force of camschments, Corresponding to shorter and much more lively. intervening ground

bombers would It was hoped to reach the line Betish heavy which the new obstacles, or to test the slope artillery could conquer would and nature bf a beach. All this Falaise-Avranches three weeks attack the 10 most important the ships or boat-loads in which Also there was a fascinating por become impassable craterfles, had to be done in darkness, with after the landing, and, with the batteries that might oppose the they would be embarked: Here rayal of the local Island Bloody every man received his arders. Mary, played most picturesquely These were the fruits of know- silent approach, stealthy recon- strong reinforcements by that time landings.

Once briefed, none were par- Smith, end the ledge which

the French and naissance, and timely withdrawal, ashore, to break out eastwards British had bought so dearly from 1915 to 1917..

their flanks, or by some new and rehearsals by all three Services, HE Rrs) objectives of the attack or air; thom attack by sea to the airfields whence they are his le Polynesian children

mechanical device like the tank.

No final

answer

UPERIORITY of

The

no final answer. The defenders 'parties in small craft to resolve south and southeast of Caen vaslon beaches, but, for

Across the Channel the whole

Intricate

front bristled with obstacles; decision

defences had been built and manned. The enemy

expected

u, but did they know where

towards the Seine, and westwards Deceiving the

towards Paris,

northeastwards

to capture the Brittany ports,

These plans depended on cur Ebility to maintain a rapid build-

enemy

in

she breaks off relations with him, thus permitting the sluggish first act to come to an end,

here

There was some good and there, but no wit and little beauty. Again and again the music came to the rescue, but the story creaks like an old tanker in distress. The first act took nearly two hour

A British autkus k

by camp. Then of Belts St. Johd as Mary'

of

the story? The

mitted to leave

camps themselves were

near to the embarkation

Those were ports or "harda

daughter.

The Frenchman

Mary

Le streiches of beach concreted in not only!

became great hero and

to allow of easy embarkation on Martin not only forgave him for

any rate within the range of leading assauld erkit should: bit, Communtie at the Supreme spolling aircraft. About haldun, that all this moviment by a fot: ne medalje ali men, - |

our fighter air cover.

A had to

the

suns indeed the is any artist og

up over the benches To CA by mellum bombers to be met by the naval

T dawn their place was to be smaller craft. Here they were having wedded or beddes a Polynesian woman but seemed to N intricate decision was the ordinate all the intricate spion and stipe gunfire, directed by

stilps.

It would do the world aspécial organization

It seemed

wiggest that Improbable most when or how. They had no choice of D-Day and "H- movements

behaved danks that could be turned, at llour," the moment at which he was

beadquarters at hour after first light the full and land would escape the sin like manner

Miss Martin has great vitality the beach. From

with subordinate weight of the U.S. heavy and tentions of the enemy. There this many

other interco

medium bombers would fall upon wore many empuk precatiors Impossible not to like. Berpand for and good humour. 1. It is quite Be

back- worked

at bodies

the nemy defences. Ships were more vulnerable

A great their Air, and It was agrted to approach embarkation porta. This enabled

the commanders on the far shore": variety of guna and rockets were taken. Nearly 7,000 guns than ever to

moonlight, enemy coast by shore batteries the which could alm by radar. Once Bonose this would help both our to control the flow of supplies to mounted in naval assault craft and rockets and over 1,000 bal- mich our troops were landed they strips and our airbone troops their benches. A similar organie would join in a crescendo of loons protectell the great man Frenchman at de

of ten and vehicles, But there we and our old friend still had to be supplied and short period of daylightisation controlled supplies from fro the onemy's air and tank before HAHuur was also

Of course, we had not only to was no gn of the Luftwaffe. PuwIE WES counter-attacks beaten off.

plan what we were really How different things were four la sua zilies the deploySitio Natale snake would', be to, going to đó, The enemy were years beforei ̈ Thradhetic) the wall, draft and accuracy to

safely acres bound to know that a great in- harbours were meeting the Clerval

bombardment. But brand support the land vason was being preced; we Intended at the

the place and world Copyright reserved. Rapin Go and H-Hour way ob low the log with at available mele, had to conceal

entre would arve more time to inerenter to ensure the timely time of attack and make him duction recover from thele Murpifin arm arrival of reinforcements and think we were funding ane langage, siricity. prosinia) are on our troops the adheren, despite all the Incards where he and at a different

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