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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1955.

MOVE WITH

AND BE LIKE

A TIGER

Melbourne, June 23.

In an atmosphere where endurance, alertness,

Editor, Dariness communications and reflexes and physical fitness are developed to the

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utmost, sun-bronzed" Australians, including veterans of the Korean war, are being trained in jungle warfare for "Operation Malaya."

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They do not have far to go for their training, Their jungle is in their own back yard at Canungra, a 7,000-acre school, 48 miles southwest of Brisbane, Australia's tropical northern city.

Thousands of Allied troops a "bridge" made of two strands know how exhausting and of rope. They swung on a rope exacting is Canungra. They across a mud-Alled, spider- trained there "during World War | infested ditch. They crawled II before

moving into New through 2 test wide tunnels Guinea and other theatres which disgorged them into

the Pacifle campaign.

water hole 6 feet below. And they jumped, It was re-opened last Septem-

fully-equipped ber because, as the Chief of the and clothed, from a 30 feet Australian General Staff,high tower into a river. Lieutenant-General Wells said,

"Be like Tiger"

a

is the recent events indicate that we maxim. Move noiselessly and just can't afford to ignore train- carefully. Develop your sense If not prepaid, a booking fee ing n jungle warfare."

of small, which can almost · re- - of 50 cents is charged.

place vision. in dense, primitive

BIRTHS

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Maulda 1935.

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Reporters et Canungra recently

watched

SENSE OF SMELL

under jungle. instructors Lieutenant Colonel George ("Jungle George') Warte, put the men through the rigorous course which teaches them self-

and reliance

instills self-detect confidence.

FRIENDLY PLACE

While

opical downpour turned narrow tracks into quog | mires, the instructors exercised the meh, emphasising that the jungle which "hides your enemy is really a riendly place onte you are acclimatized to it."

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and note books, chilidir,sa's books, chess sets, Very wide selec- tummy

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The troops wardly approached dead body to which

bon is available at South China they lied a toggle rope 10

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A keen sense of small could curry-eating Asiatie enemy from 200, yards away. The breath and body odours of 100 of them would watt 2CTOS the jungle. Like the tiger, blynd with the jungle, Lieutenant- Colonel Warte talls them. Do not fight against it. Move with it, parting The vines and under- growth.

mere

In July.

training will give way to "real" jungle war- are at Canungra. This will in- d e ammunition, living on rations dropped

from

Royal Air Force bombers,

THE JUNGLE Russian North

Pole Station

Souvenir

Death Traps Recovered

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Canberra, June 23. More than 4,500 ammunition

Aerologists S. Sokolov (left)" and V, Nikonov flling the sound balloon with gas at the new too floe research station "North, Pale 5" set up in the Eastern

part of the Arctie late in April by the Authorities. Within

"souvenirs" capable of causing serious injury had been re- covered from private sources by the Australian Army in the past six months, Army Minis- ter Josiah Francis sald here,

**This recovery. that of 7,053 -souvenirs lastplored in year, suggests

following

that after nine

and Salisbury Road, Kowloon Traderolling the body over, a mine and testing of four Centurion years of peacetime conditions

* enquiries bavited.

MUSICAL

Hong Keng long.

As they pulled the rope Australian exploded. which, had it been

live and the body been touched tanks as yet untried in the by hand. Would have blown jungle. them to pieces.

Recorder

Muzic.

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They charged up a steep slope Busin Lurgical Music. Pune yelling with all the excitement Malatures (4 vob), Tachaikowsky and reality of war, clambered Concert Farley, Kabalevsky Opera

Taras Family Music Mus One over barbed wire entanglements. Has Bibelen Violin Concerto from bayonetred dummy bodies, and

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STAMPS

SOMETHING EXCLUSIVE,

faller made

They

way inch by inch. along

sneaker"

lanes "where at intervals an instructor suddenly pulled on a wire. A guerilla then darted from behind of an "enemy" metal facsimile

tree and, theoretically, threw a hand grenade. In this refix- testing exercise, the troops have only two seconds sight of the Ruorilla

und must engage and fire at him from the hip--or be caught by the grenado,

SNIPED AT

They were aniped at (with blank ammunition) if they

Collec-Strayed too far into a clearing.

100% packets of assorted stampa They themselves learned sniping From 20 cents per packet upwards from 50 feel up in a tree leaning An entirely ZUW serica. South China Morning Post Ltd., Wyndham over a river.

Street. Hongkong and *Salsbury Later, they crossed the river, Hoad, Kowloon

by flying fox, bosun's chair, and

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Devaluation

Of Piastre

The

For the 6OUTH CHINA Agency MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication

Bpecial Announcements

Denied

Saigon, June 23.

Vietnam Press

today

denied

rumours circulating here that the piastre would be devalued in the near future.

The agency stated that Diem Governrnient

pointed

hea

and Classified Advertise: decided to proceed to a devalua-

mante, as usual.

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

Copier of photographs taken by the South China Morning Post, South China

Sunday

Post-Herald, and China Mail Staff Photo- graphers are on view in the Morning Post Building.

1

ORDERS BOOKED

the mot

and tion,

oul that France and Vietnam had under- taken in the Paris monelary agreements of last December, to respect the piastre rate of ten tranes until the end of Decem:- ber, 1955.

After this date the two govern- ments will be called on to sign new agreements and this in no

way indicates that the plastre- franc rate will be altered, says the Vietnam Press Agency

The Agency added that close exist between the relations Vietnamese plastre and the Cambodian and Baotian plastres Any devaluation of the former would be bound to have pro- found repercussions on the two others and might bring about disturbances in the economy of

Cambodia and Lace.

The Agency concluded, by stating that Vietnam would not take such a serious step without having serious reasons doing so-France-Presse.

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The backroom boys' will be there. too, learning how they can improve weapons, trousers, boots, shirts and rations to in- CTCASC the efficiency morale of Australia's

jungle green" Mail Special..

there is still a big number of potential death traps in homes

and rubbish dumps throughout the country," Mr Francis said.

Some of the ammunition has and been

German, brought from new Japanese, Italian, United States

Dutch

theatres.- troops-China and

China Mail Special,

war

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THIS IS RIDICULOUS!

} I WON'T FIGHT WITH | A WOMAN!

'I'M MY KING'S CHAMPION/ FACE ME, OR QUIT, YOU BULLY!

FERDINAND

WELCOME

NANCY

SLUGGO SHOULD MAKE A SWELL

PITCHER ---·

JOHNNY HAZARD

THERE MUST BE A WAY OUT OF

{ THIS...I WON'T LET THEM TAKE ME {BACK TO THE GENERAL” AGAINİ İF.

ONLY I COULD DISPOSE OF WILHELM.

IN SOME WAY THAT PARACHUTE

IF THAT'S THE WAY YOU'R COWARDLY

| KING WANTS I

REMEMBER, IF I

WIN--YOUR ARMY LAYS

DOWN ITS ARMS.

HE PRACTICED WITH SNOWBALLS

ALL WINTER

LERNIE BUSHMILLER

་་

Soviet

few

days a whole township sprang up amidst high snow-covered hammocks on a large ice floo many years old. Everything for NECESSARY

life and research. tenis, dwellings, foodstuffs, and a whole host of scientific equipment were fown from the malaland, The area around "North Pole 5" station is one of the least ex-

the Central Arelie and therefore its study is of great value, to science. The first group of Fole researchers landed on the les flee as it 80 deg. Northern Latitude and 156 deg. 13'

Eastern Latitude Now the floe carrying the station is drifting northward having zig-zarged about 200 kilometres.---Express Photo.

passed the potat

WE STAAT FIRING AT A HUNDRED PACES. WHERE'S YOUR GUN?

I NEED NO GUN. FIRE

AT WILL.

Happens In

Every Man's Army

MERCHANT SEAMEN

STUDY

MODERN WARFARE

London, June 23.

At ports all over Britain, merchant seamen are going back to their ABC. This time it is not the alphabet of their childhood that they are learning, but the basic information on atomic, biological and chemical warfare.

With Britain's very life dependent upon maintaining sea communications and trade, the British Admiralty is teaching masters, officers and ratings from merchant ships how to cope with their particular problems as practically unarmed merchant seamen in this new age of atomic war- fare.

In this way, they are making an unique and important con- tribution to the sea strength of

the

expect in alom-age warfare is chriffed by experts."

Since even day and for the the grand alliance of the North immediate future, ponventional Altantic Treaty Organisation. ·weqpons will continue to play As Admiral Jerrauld Wright, a major part in rea warfare, the Organisation's American courses oleo include basic Supreme Commander for the instruction Сп four-inch- and Atlantic, stated recently, one of anti-aircraft guris which would his basic problems is to ponvince be installed in merchantmen tor some Western European nations self-defence as in the last war. of the crucial importanes, in wartime, of keeping the sea James across the Atlantic open for the flow of essential supplies and reinforcemen is.

NEW SUBJECTS

The new subjects which at- tract particular interest among the men who volunteer for these MUST. GET THROUGH two-week courses, include the This is not a question of ABC lessons, fire-fighting, and which is the

fighting navies alone. It is the damage conting repairs to

men

technique of get

merchants ships which must through the enemy ranks of sub- keep a ship floating and steam- marines, aircraft and surface ing when damaged. raiders. So the merchant sen- A recent and popular addi- must know how to meet tion is the subject of survival at Capetown, June 23.

sea, a subject applicable to peaco such menaces,

Yet it is only the British Ad-as well as war. Here, the men After attending three weeks' Active Citizen Force training at miralty which, to date, has run fearn the latest means by which Or torpedoed the Oudtshoorn Military Camp, Merchant Navy Defence Courses shipwrecited

may best stay alive two bewildered young men are on such a comprehensive basis.mariners

boat or in one of wondering what the army is Information about this instruc. an open

tion, however, is also passed to these modern inflatable dinghies coming to?"

designed to meet One was a rather indifferent other members of the North specially soldier

Treaty Organisation, "open beat" conditions in the and the other a keen Atlantic

is fearned from an Arctic or the tropics. young man who took his train- and it

I toured one of these Mer- that the Source ing seriously. They both ap-authoritative peared before their Command- United States has recently taken chant Navy Defence Courses

Officer

indifferent la Log

-the

closer interest in British de-centres and saw the instruction soldier to be reprimanded for velopment of this aspect of pre-in progress. having a rusty rifle, and the paredness. keen young man for promotion.

101

Ther are also defence, courses

defence

PLOT, AIRCRAFT

In

the

to

Action Information But somewhere along the for Merchant Navy officers but

of apprentices line their names get mixed up not ratings-in Australia and Centre, a group and the hard working recruit New Zealand, but not on such a from tankers were being taught by a naval petty officer how to was severely reprimanded by scale as in Britain

"niet**

the approach of "enemy Navy Merchant the Commanding Officer for not taking proper care of his courses, rut to very good affect aircraft. On large transparent weapon, while the bewildered in Britain during the war, have sorsens, they were marking up. and greatly re- the approach of aircraft accord- culprit was congratulated on been revived his "good work" and raised to shaped in recent years. They ing to information passed

them verbally, just as would be. the rank of bombardier-China are constantly being brought up

in a a light feet carrier. Mail Special,

to date as the picture of what to dom

Not that these budding young officers of the tanker fleet would ever be likely to carry out such duties themselves. But it gave them

some appreciation of how a group of scorting warships would operate for their defence in wartime convoys.

ry training space, gunnery

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

"I TOOK A BIG CHANCE--| GO ON!

BUT OUR ARMIES COULD

WHAT

NOT MATCH HIS-SO AS HAPPENED?

HE CAME NEARER-

INTERESTED,

MANDRAKE?

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

OOPS---FORCE OF HABIT

WINO WEAPON AT HANDJOB, »

IF ONLY I WEREN'T SO ALONÉ!

{"SNAP HUNTER HE HAD A CHANCE":

TO HELP ME WHY DIDN'T HE?

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ By Frank Robhina

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

IJAYD

*THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA FAMOUS* -

DAIRY BOX

MILK

CHOCOLATE

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel

In the

a keen group of Merchant Navy ratings were demonstrating a re- of proficiency markable degree achieved in

few hours train- ing on a tour-inch g

The next class was one of the mast interesting. There, a couple of dozen officers from seven shipping companies, ranging in rank from Masters to th enginters and including three chief stewards, were receiving their ABC warfare instruction.

ATOMIC ATTACK

They had already been shown an instructional film

on the effects of atomic attack, and on the blackboard in front of them. were diagrams Allustrating the power and effect of the early atomic bombs and the more recent hydrogen bomb exploded. under water at Bikini, in

in the Paclic. These were, of course, only elementary illustrations.

On the instructors desk was a variety of equipment. In a small case like a haversack were rows of glass tubes containing. chemicals for testing the air for otherwise undetectable gases, in- cinding the nerve gases of biological warfare.

Chemical is placed on a piece of paper which is fixed to the

sawn-of

top of an instrument ke a so that air bicycle pump so by blown through the paper. *****9 19

>>

It.

precessary

present the paper changes colour. There was also a dose-ometer for testing radio.. activity in any section of a ship where men might be working, and giving warning when to withdraw.

RADIO-ACTIVE FOG On show was a photograph of the cruiser Cumberland half- hidden by a cloud of water from hoses. This is the pre-wetting. system to prevent radio-active. particles from the fall-out of an atomic bomb settling on a ship. and also to combat the radio- active og from a burst...

Merchant ships are also being fitted with this "pre-wetting

Synally there was the "vorsonal"

respirator, much like the simplest form of gasmsak, issued during World War II, but with Etments to make it

itional

against radio-active particies as well as gas

SIX DEL

So far about 12 per cent of British Merchant Navy Officers, and a

through these ́COURSES" which some attend in their own leave time and others during specia leave, granted by their shipping companies,

a little ore than cent of ratings · have passed

But the aim of the British Ade miralty with the support of most shipping/ companies is eventually to teach "every British merchant segmen“ how best to stay alive in this age of atomic: "warzare in China Spec

Mak