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'But Wilbur, maybe the little English boys don't want

American boy to be admiral of their boats."

littlo

London Express Service

WE COLLECT A NEW LOT OF PETS

by.

JOHN GORDON

war

There F starting a

is afraid of Communism?

another explanation. usually an extra could be ordinary, business, it Let us consider it. seems that bringing it to an end can be even more extraordinary.

Take the fantastic situa- tion that has developed in Koren, We went to war in that remote, unprofitable, and ungodly hole, so We were told, to preserve the liberties of the South Koreans against attack hy the North Korcans.

We have now achieved such a measure of victory that the North Koreans

have Would collapsed long ago except that. far away in the Kremlin, for deep, dark reasons entirely un- connected with Korea at all, the notorious 13 men of the Polit buro desire to keep the pot holl-

ing..

So the battle is deadlocket. Yet can we move from deadlock to ending the wor? Apparently no. And now we have reached the stage of fantasy. We have not only adopted the South Koreans, but we are taking the North Koreana to our bosum us

well. The Marx War has developed into the ...Murx

Brothers war.

That statement may arouse sume of our sentimentalists to fury. But am I right? Just look at the position.

ODD. AFFAIR

AFTER zzome

не

months

ff

negotiation,

rzached the point when an armistice seemed possible. Then the whole thing broke down on us curious a piece of nonsense ne ever developed in war.

Apparently we can't end the war because about 70,000 of the 132,000 North Korean prisoners in our hands decline to horne. Why?

These

North

Koreans

arc

among the most primitive and ccoramically depressed propjes in all Asip...

Life has always pressed very hard upon them, The luckiest live in hovels. Many eke out an in the animal-like existence flelds and ditches,

They never have had enouga food, and they have never go! whai food they have had, without a considerable <ffori.

TWO DOCTORS LOOK FOR TROUBLE FROM THE HAGGIS

Dai, Mac, and Pat are all brothers -to tribesmen

THE true Taffics. of Morgan Watkin, of Aberystwyilj

Wales, the Highland and Dr Arthur Mourani,

of the Scots, and the Irish Lister Institute, London. are the direct descendants Both are recomised, authorl of wild tribesmen from the ties en human blood-groups North African deserts, fixed hereditary characters scientists.solemnly claim ye and hair colour.

They

the Cellary with North Africa like this-

today.

They base their belief on the most thorough survey.1 RECORDS from blood trans- of blood-groupa of different blood-groups" among the North Welsh, High-

yet made of the distribution distribution

fusion units show that the

among the British people. land Scots, and Irish is almost

The survey shows -that the Celts of

Wales, Scotland, and

Ireland

aro

almost

blood-

certainly brothers of the Ber

of bersa trike Mohammedans .now. living in Libya, Al- geria, anti Marocco.

They have little

blood relationship. with the English, who

THE

CHAPMANS

PINCHER

COLUMKE

identical with that of the

tribes Berber alone of all possible ancestore.

There

evidenco

with the

is no of kinship Cornish

people and French Bretops as formerly supposed.

2 THE CELTS phy

sically resembla

the Berbers' in, thely,

are kin to the Germans, Dutch, stature and dark features. "Put and other orih Europeans.

2cme of the raporland, Welsh

Every te A Welsh miner in a white robe and you wouldt nys from the thordan I am not know the difference -pays be betrays his idinship with the Dr Morgon Watkin.

people of the Middle East, who

also construct their sentences 13 MANY WELSH NAMES, that peculiar way the scientists ctrongly suggest a North state in their carefully docu- African origin. Example::A

mented report

famous Welsh mountain shaped 55. tco. with the zealous, like a huge chair is called Cader Welsh preache”, whose lit ja

chal. almost identical with the cry of Kris, meaning, Idris's

cnu considers that, a | Mohammedan mucran cailidg "When

the faithful to praye..

lize el Berber kings also boro of Idriss the epin- the name eldtree seems noteworthy" scientists point cut.

The scientists who make these startling claims are Dr. Iestyn

Inby waves her "wand-in-a-You need a better excuse than human. utoad called A. B. and Wales and the Jairy tale...

that.

be

or better What could first time in their For the lives these hovel-and-ditch touch with more certainty the dwellers found themselves in roft hearts of those odd met All the from the West who alone hold comfortable homes.

to make the con- worries of life vanished. They the power

of this tinuance

life finc had no need to work? no need

to say you are possible, than to search for food.

afraid to go home because of the Communists?

They had it served out to them regularly every time the cack house buglas blew, in

ધ quantity and of quality far beyond anything they ever thought existed, For: they now Hive

rations.

on American

BETTER EXCUSE

I suggest that may be what is happening.

And I suggest we should be

very certain that it isn't what is happening, before we decide that British boys shall continue to give their lives in that inhcapilable land, just because

Koreans 70,000 North prisoner-of-war life

ND, of course, the danger to battle no longer concerus them.

A life that has to be faced in furiable to give up.

find too com

For on the present lock of things they may never get home on the at ull if it depends conselences of North Koreans. I think we might be a little witer if on such occasions as back and reflected this we sat

On top of the normal miseries of their e came war, They were rounded up and pushed If you were a North Korean into battle. Life, that had been would you elect to go home in desperately uncomfortable, be- such circumstances? I doubt it. came desperately dangerous ps

But, of course, even a simple well.

knows that North -Korean merely saying you are entranced with this wonderful new ite whether the price of protecting isn't enough to ensure that you come consciences may not be a will be allowed to continue it. little too high.

There are three main types of 4 THE BLACK CATTLE of.

Scóffish Out of every 100 English people about us have group blood, 33 have Highland cattle are almost cer- truly descended from the long- group A, and flue have group B.

Of every 10 Colts or Barbers, hand eattle, of North shant 75 have group D, 13 have group A, end ten kova group D.

mitin trans-

But the moment they became prisoners, there came a formation as staggering as that which happens when the good

Pest-lipnouraute gentle.

tant to duy Coronation sourcnira y

uny

Atries.

The scientists believe that the criginal language of the North Africans who migrated to Bri- Itain under pressure from the Arabs Was something te Egyptian.

It was later dispiseed, by Celtic, brought in by later in- vaders from Europe.

These invaders gradually. drove the North African sofliers into the highlands of Wales and. their direct Scotland, where descendants still live. -kartans

What of the Lowland Scots and people of South Walest. There must be came Berber blood there, the scientists be Hove, but it has been too heavily diluted by English immigrants to show up.

WEAT Watkinand their

Drs Morgan Mourant are continuing patient study. Meanwhile, like ne, they await the shower of lecks, haggis, and shillelagos. (London Express Servicej

THE UNTOLD STORY OF-

The Kidnapped General

Communist prisoners of war seize an Allied. gonoral, relcaso him on terms later disowned. How could 'it happen? Today, in a cable from the riot island of Kojo, in South Korea, comes this on-the- spot Investigation

by RALPH WALLING:

NE man, self-appointed

the Red prisoners held Wilbur Robert Raven, by the United Nations on mander of

For four days, until the caplured Brig.-General. Francis T. Dodd was released, this man Jure of his

he had

was

post, kicked out' hard. A G.I would be used "regardless of the But General Colson's reply

to his consequences."

what the political com- with bayonet came

Colonel Raven

missdr wanted. Still he water. rescue. saved.. General Dodd was can- Lee and the commissur dis- ed in sple of the troops atrund

eussed this, Recalled General Compound 76. n tured.

Dodd, after his releases They Five

Efter miautor

Gen- Informed me that if troops èn. • From fingpoles in ness Al was seized, banners tered the compound they would the other compounds new. North cial Dedd

that my life would Korean and Chinese national and 3ft, high 25ft, long

were resist,

be forfeited, and that there flags, Columns of Reds raised in the camp, proclaiming would be a simultaneous breake marched behind the barbed wire "We capture Dedi. If you do from all compounds on the us if on parade, not show force and grant our Island." demands he will be unharmed."

They appealed, for more time

memor

So were

EVENTY-EIGHT

inte

He, walked to Q truck, and

drove to his headqudietan, Yobá: the shadows where the tanks and Infantry were assembled to force their way into the com- 'pound.

These were seized as. con-

Gericral Dodd was kept in to prepare a four-point memo by

Licut-Colonel the blanketed rear-section of a randum for consideration by the political commissar of rebind

This com- tent, with a rice-matting floor, new camp commandant,"

was granted....

kout walked -General Dodd, 冠 military police built-in bunk, table decked with

free Ho was garlanded with had nowcra.

The political commissar called flowers and walked between We are assured by America's Koje Island, planned the battalion. Colone! Itaven

In his Leutenants from ho formed-up lines of prisonera.* Mr Truman and our n Mr

He Was

allowed to have other compounds. They come in Anthony Eden,

most moving kidnapping of the American arcady had une clash with the

Reds: a month before

changes of clothing. He was carg and trucks. words, that they refuse to be commandant,

been seized by the political allowed to have ham and eggs home because they are

Next morning their sent

commissar's men, held for three delivered from "oulalde." afraid of Communism.

andum" was ready, From outside, too came the troops. hours, and made to eat the

letters..from his Florida home, barley rullon.

"They were delivered by a GI

ptsiman at the compound gate,.

The general fat in the tent

then came what was see you!". seen him with North Korean Colonel Leo Ing event in the whole bizarre glad to be out." Hak Koo, elected leader of the story of this camp.. P.O.W. Association but nol' its political boss, the terms release..

Messrs. Truman and Eden, raising their eyes to fitaven. declare that to send then home-nò pne is even in Buch clrcumstances

battle.

the

maru

Raven returned the goods the appease the prisonere Colonel next day,

When he swooped on would name-ruled 17 compounds. contraband there was outrage the conscience of the

much that, tree world. So on with the Just what happened in this trouble-so

island.comp before and after "Isn't it wonderful," cry the the general was seized I can now sentimentalists, that our gallant teil. boys will continue to bare their

It started, you might say, one cheats to

awords of the the chemy in order to ensure liberty sunny day, when the working of conselence, and freedom from parties from the compounds thraldom for 70,000 North were out working-and, in bo Koreans

tween doing a brisk bartor "What a gesture to a man- trade. kid!"

*

"How are you, Frank?", sald General Colson. m glad to

while the commissar "I'd never AND

· before"--discussed perhaps the most astonish- Sald General

Doddr

After it was all over. b.exuÇS, of A reply was sent to the Reds

white-shirled prisoner known by the new camp commander, vaguely as "Mr Kim,tried to Brig.-General Charles F. Colson

...

was duped into taking Colonel Leo said he had just he has been sacked now hold his own Press conference. General Dodd along with him received word that troops would saying: "I can assure you that at the gate of Compound 10. In futuro prisoners can expect he was told to "shut up" by a military policeman. He walked to discuss "other problems." enter the compound.

humane treatment.”

away.. It was true, Geral Van The political commissar actor.

This was the reply, made They used soap, clothes and His men, moved in on the two Flee Allied Eighth Army Com

mander, had issued an uit!- "under great duress," which But let us look a little more blankets supplied by the United onleurs.

matur that unless General was later virtually disowned by deeply into this odd affair: Are Nations to get such luxuries os

Dodd

delivered up by General Mark Clark, now U.N. World Com Wo absolutely certaiï that wrist watches, revolving pencils,

10a.m. the next day, force C-In-C theag prisoners are really, topihbrushes, rings.

Colonel Raven saw what was coming. He clung to a gate

·was'

Maybe he was tha paliffent commlerSAM

"Service)

Express