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MONTY MISSILE

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Quardian

JAMES CRICHTON VISITS THE FEUDING PATHANS AND LOOKS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER WITH A QUESTIONING EYE

AFGHANISTAN – THE LOST STATE?

The

urge

for

countries As for apart a

occasionally to shift boulders.

are in the hands of experts from mountains and use a crowbar France and America. Trade is principally with the United

car trips

But the expanse of the desert -over 400 miles of difficult country from Russia would deter any but a highly organised force.

ManyTM lives have "boon" saved helicopter rescue 'and'now comes: a ́development that will facilitate these mercy missions even more

ROYAL NAVY'S SCOOP NET

By J. W. TAYLOR

TEW apparatus to in- vice use and is being sup-

NEW

not.

!

prove rescue opera plied to aircraft carriers tions by helicopter has been and Naval air stations at developed by the Royal home and abroad.... Navy in the form of a scoop The scoop net la extreme- ly simple. A rope 'nét la Since helicopters became attached to a tubular frame air/soa rescue craft, the which is in the form of a Navy's method of lifting D-frame, The D-frame is face downwards persons from the sea has lowered been by means of a strap into the water and is stabl which is lowered and then lised by a drogue. It is secured round the waist, secured to a spacer bar by either by the persons them- four cables and operated by selves or by an aircrewman a single cable from. the lowered to assist them. helicopter's winch.

The use of these methods has resulted in the saving of many lives, both of Ser- vice airmen who have crash-

Into Line

When not in use the det ed into the sea, and seamen is secured alongside tho and civilians in distress. cockpit of the helicopter The only survivor from the and does not impede the pro- South Goodwin Light Vessel greas of the machine. It is was rescued by means of lowered into the sen as the a strap lowered from a aircraft is advancing at a helicopter. Many pilots who speed of about five knots crashed or force-landed be- and a height of about: 25 hind the enemy lines during feet. When in position for of the the Korean war were also a pick-up, the face rescued by this method. Dis submerged and the arc of the latter remains above water.

Terrifying

The helicopter is then There are disadvantages, navigated to bring the scoop net however. People struggling into line with the person to be in the sea often cannot help rescued and is trawled through the water until the person is themselves, and suspension drawn into the net. The net is in mid-air is frequently athen hoisted alongside the eubin that theo now and terri- of the hellcopter s completely

con either be assisted fying experience for them. person

If badly There is the added disadvan. into the aircraft or,

Injured, rllowed to remain un- tage that if a badly injured disturbed in the net until the person is lifted by a strap, helicopter returns to base. further Injury mny be During trials in the English caused during the lift.

Channel---sommo

of which werO

do

Peshawar, Pakistan. rifles sighted on a stone by HE big Pathan in the road, and pull the trig- baggy trousers and ger when the victim was a black, bobbed hair few yards from it. After States., waved his hand at a the kl, he would carefully patch of grey bushes and collect the empty cartridge

But they admit that Rusauns boulders in the dry river case for recharging at the have taken

to the bed. As if by magic men village armoury,

Pokiston frontier. They

In any case, Hussia's best curd ignored the Khyber Pass which. appeared out of the pebbly sand. There were eighteen

on the Pakistan ade, is riddled to play is Afghanistan's grow

anti-Western sudden

Ing

sentiment. In an endeavour to over- wilessed by American- Service with British built of them, armed with shiny death comes mainly from Line-type defences, including over the rights of the Pathans

Maginot. The hostility towards Pakistan come some of these draw authorities, who have shown CO-

siderable interest in the leather bandollers and Bri- family feuds, which

the Search and paratus--oll drums were at first con- underground forts complete with sharpened recently when the backs, tish Lee Enfield rifles.

tinue for generations. The hospitals. Instead they looked USA and Pakistan signed their Rescue Unit at the Royal used as chronic shortage of women at the deserts astride the

aid agreement. "There, sahib,” he said,

the harsh hills breed Kandahar-Quetta camel route. and "that la one reason why not

men of fierce temper and

During the last wor, even bombers can conquer consuming pride. Va in prised Indian Army offietis dla- tribal dandies even carry covered that, instead of being to an army, this He waved again and the pocket mirrors to adjust impassable

route could be traversed by an men vanished. Through their

battle, ordinary station wagon. It was binoculars I was able to and dance together with only necessary pick out two of them, one flowers behind their ears. whose hand lay just outside

นช.

a jet black shadow and an- other's dome-shaped hat. Otherwise they merged with the landscape.

hair before

More Problems

BUT now these Pathans They were from the stone have more serious prob. fort on the hill, towering lems than shooting personal and shimmering in the hent rivals. They are ruled by above. There

no Pakistan. They are covet- doors, only a trap under ed by Afghanistan. the overhanging parapet, they want independence entered by a ladder let down from both. by the garrison,

were

And

Afghanistan too haa With a large kerchief full problems. of unleavened bread like pancakes and

While all the other Mostem building

some dried Mentes are

a

alliances

Water

to follow through Courses

sur-

dry the

Now..one

Naval Air Station, Ford, fyr yndrede Lave

Carried

or

Sussex, designed the scoop out, the rate of pick-up in some At present Afghanistan

anet and produced prototypes cases being as high ng tan poors quiet and genuinely

on the station for trials. twelve persons within twenty neutral. But if the West and the other, Moalem states do not The net is capable of scoop inutes, Some of those “rescued" havo described their experiance come to terms with iting a person out of the sen

"comfortable ride.” Afghanistan could become a

sudden threat, either to Persia as a helicopter moves for-

Pakistan, or

crucial ward at walking pace. It is moment.

available for general Ser-

at

A West Indies Election Is Unforgettable

HERE THEY DID THE

VOTING SAMBA

Kingston, Jamaica.

From DONALD LUDLOW

The little

--

123

Right Approach

Whilo the new method will not replace those methods al- ready in use, it is considered that the scoop net is definitely the

to the problem right approach of rescuing" injured) 'or uncon- but selous people from the sea, it will be impossible to use this method when there is wreckage near the person to be rescued.

The net was invented by the commanding officer of the Air/Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, Lieutenant Commander John Sproule, Runteer Reserve in R.N., who entered the

Navy as a

1940. Among those who helped in the development and trinis of the device was C.P.O. Air- a rhythm in a way that would

Farmers' Party, a crowman Stewart Lock, who wan of was a night of songs all the stage and bring chizers at couple Communists, and the Distinguished Service Medai other odds and ends were not as a member of the crew of a London's Drury Lané. and sambas, of proces-

in it at all.

Barracuda aircraft which bomb- For one day the poverty, the od the German battleship Tirpitz migration to in Trondheim Fjord in World

War Two,

And that forest of brooms

goat meat, these men can and making treaties, Afghans-slona and drum beats. scramble up and down three

It was a night of blazing with 10ft, and 12ft. handles I problems, and tan remains Isolated--the only thousand-foot peaks for week or more.. And they the Iron Curtain.

Moslem country on the edge of lights, colour and surging saw at one meeting! They were Britain were forgotten.

tled crowds the night before bicycles, and people on foot to cars, to motor-cycles, were not as skilful, they ad-

Jamaicans went to the polls so brandshed them. mitted, as men of the tribal Strategically placed between to turn out William Bus "gaahta" or raiding parties. Persia and Pakistan, without atamante, their Chief Minis. It was a happy political seaport, it, is hemmet behipa ter for 10 years, and vote in inspiration of Socialist Norman his cousin, Norman Manley. Manley, the Stafford Cripps of to Jamaica. Ho had called Oh, that singing. It kept me his followers to "Eweep out awaloe 'till nearly dawn.

Busta!" They saw the joke, from Moody THEY

And it ranged ambush can

And 90

that to

blazing patrol, Bilt their has not even taken dollar ala and Sankey hymns, calypsos

from the U.S.A. kare ex- called mentoes here what my morning and city quickly filling throats, take their arms ception today.

dah-dah-doc-dah knowledge of with people whose forefingers and disappear in half

music believes.

Kipling Country

deserts and mountains under the shadow of Soviet Russia.

This Cinderella state of 13,- a000,000- larger than France.

a minute. Their comrades sing

Was

Zahir Shah rules the nocturne, and a soulful pin were dyed with red ink. behind would know nothing stable government through reing of Parica

by until they tripped over the lives holding key posts The Franklo Latris

country 19 Batimed with

moi d'Amour' spectasted,

Jamaican

corpses.

lightrope policy of neutrality Everything had now words. in world affairs. But it is in-Some prawed Chief Minister This was the old. North- possible for the Afghan govern Bustamante end some his rival weat Frontier of India, ment, to ignore Russia. Especial and cousin, the equally lean and

ly as the rise of modern laku-striking where Kipling's heroes lived tax has spurred Afghanis Manley. hardy, dashing lives and the develop their state. British kept up a ple turesque war whose ela- bornte rules prevented many deaths on either side.

Russian Policy

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Jagge

It was a rрocial, ink that had to wear off and the Idea was to prevent anybody voting twice.

POLLING BOOTHS":

..

Polling booths were overy- Norman

Washington where, in schools, in shops, in Queen's · Counsel. *** bars. I saw one in a tailor's Don't pak ma for the words of shop. (the songs or for what the WWELL- When you entered the booth

election spookers · were you held your hands out for |dhouting

white through their micro- policeman with phones. You don't batch on to belmet and red-striped plants the strange Jansatro dialect to the the fingers. word

quickly: es mit that, really the Engilah of Charles II unttained. Then you made ́cróm, on the ballot paper

yourloped, a finger in the

and

WHAT PROCESSIONS I Inkpot

Thoughtfully I climbed RUSSIA'S laro. Ebay is USSIA'S large Embay was into the car which then Afghanistan after the restora drove off up the Khyber tion of the monarchy at the Pass at breakneck speed, first World War's end. : Since then Russian policy: has been As we swayed round carefully designed to come throbbing drimi bass remember Labour Party, who opposed Mr corners, the armed· body!·

Khu Solomon's Manley Disturbing public A good relations with lia pirktas the

One candidate was arrested- There was a chant with a Mr Whton Hill, of Buder's

· guard "oxplained that no pically placed, seighbours One. MURESANAA cars dropped below forty of iconorations to Afghan minight and went on and on, miles an hour and never vationellem is the newlys with mon's volour.booming and mapped frontier :: between fine women, Joining in wlib”, koprano. stopped betw

Two countries sapped upon at steccato breakag the end of the last?

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