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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1955.

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JOHN SMITH

BRITISH ARMY

KILLED FIGHTING GERMAN INVASION OF GREECE

FILTHY

BRITISH

CIVE CYPRUS TO GREECE!

NO SUCH WORD AS 'THANKS IN POLITICS

DID IT HAPPEN ?^

by HAROLD WARD

BAILEY

HAROLD WARD BAILEY Is a Country Section Sergeant in Essex. lfe worked in London with the Military Police during the biltz, was transferred to the north of Scotland in the Special Investigation Branch, and after D Day served in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.

anslated in the investigation of murder, rape, and large-scale Larceny and Smuggling," he writes, "and found the every interesting.

lie is married, has one son, and writes for a' hobby.

Another could-be-true story to set you guessing. The answer will be published tomorrow

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EPTEMBER 1939 ile groups, talking, drinking, found me a member laughing. Except the Pioneer, he of a County Police was alone, just drinking. Force in the Homo voice of Germaine brought me "Thirty francs, M'sleur," the Counties. It also caught me out of my little dream world. I out as a Reservist, and in paid and cradled the still sticky December of the same year where they

glass with my hands. "Wonder

the keep

stuff, I was recalled to the Army, upstairs, in the cellar, burled

maybe. recalled with a December 1944: The scene a few hundred eases of corned. grin was Antwerp, the large beef buried

sund aurant the Belgian port on the Scheldt dunes at La Panne with Jerry

estuary, battered by V.18 here and there.

"Achtung Minen" - signs dotted

London Express Bervice

是

18 MONTHS AFTER JAGAN

WHAT IS HAPPENING

IN BRITISH GUIANA?

W

By HAROLD JAMES

stands at the crossroads. It domination

ITH the arrival of British battalion was flown into itsed their own salaries; not only that but voted for the increase to new Governor, Georgetown.

be ente-dated for more than a British Guiana With its arrival fears of Red year! So publie opinion wants a

receded.

Money clean awoep-a break from the ean limp along its present started to flew back into the sav-past. What it would like to sco trail, under the aegis of bank. Cocktail parties started is a team spirit which will work again. Gradually ite resumed for political stability and the interim government. Its normal. It all seemed like a conomie prosperity.

"Had this really happened In There are other under-currents British Gulana?”

Whither bound? Perhaps for bad 籍 dead end; perhaps

dreamn. Citizens asked

going back on its trucks to

of rebellion against privilego; against the prestige of a white where it started 18 months The crisis provoked a bustiv skin and the exclusiveness of political activity among some-not all of Georgetown'a

people. moderale-minded

"We loading citizens. Facial

conselous-

ཐ

ngo. Or it can strike out in f a new direction to a new must stand. together against ness is not scute, but it is there goal. The journey may be the PPP was the cry. Some of all the same.. Guianese will tel hazardous. It will call for the moderate leaders went to reu of ono emporium whose

London and sought

counsel coloured assistants were chosen endurance, and above all,

from British pollllcat partice. Zor the lightness of their skins, leadership. So much depends Ton

They Tony and Labour alike.

If they

couldn't be white, at in British Guiana on the got the same advice from batil feast they could be off-white. human element and personal by organising public opinion in a

It's for you to help yourselves-- This had a snob value; but not 'mob value, for had the such a way as to prevent the troubles in 1953, led to violenco FPP ever coming back into is certain that this store power."

would have been the first to go

p in flames,

example.

A heavy burden, then, falls on Sir Patrick Rennison, recently promoted from British Honduras w govern Britain's, only colony ou the South American mainland.

ANY PROGRESS?

NO

LTC

While on the surface, then, all is calm in Beltish Guling, there

of murmurs

discontent Let us turn back to the story the leaders returned, re-

solved to produce an ima- below. Hence the popular view of British Gulana's constitutional ginative programme and to sink that if elections were restored, ciels. Towards the end of 1953 the personal differences which Dr Jagan and the PPP would be the government of the Com- hitherto had divided them. Tho voted back to power. But early munist-minded 'PPP" 09 Dr United Democratle Party, the dis year the PPP split in two Jagan's party was known, was party of moderate opinion, and Dr Jegon's Heutenant, The constitution was became a rallying ground for Forbes Burnham, broke QWAY

with tho Her Majesty's responsible citizens,

of forming this idea who even Government, A state of emer- opened their pockets for it. awn party. At least, that is the although there are doubts whether the split is But the political temperature Keneral bellef, zoon drupped. Sustained effort genuine or whether

Burnham does not come casily in the might not join up again with the Jogans If It suited his book,

dismissed.

Buspended

ncy

by

was proclaimed and

ACHTUN

MINEN

I recalled the expressions on the faces of the three Belgian black marketeers as they had dug at bayonet point...

AT THE CAFE

and 29-a vital supply link I recalled the expression on in the Allies' plans for the the face of the thrie Belgian last grand alam across the black marketeers as they had line planned for the coming spring. I was now in an Army Investigation Unit, waging war on smugglers of Army supplies, gungs of Allied deserters, and un- scrupulous natives who found lucrative markets for such items as chocolates,

other. clothing and most goods intended for the ease- ment of the conditions of

COLIBRI..

the vast armies waiting the aug, at bayonet

word "Go."

the signs, and "bully,"

The drone

revealed

of the "Fliger the Ped, some on the floor where

the drill mate, do us a favour wili yer-send it to the Missis 600 -address in-wallet, keep for yerself, thanks

ma The voice stopped, he was dead. Gently I eased a bulley wallet from his breast pocket, Yes, there

Gaping hole

I

point, among The cafe was quiet; still that was the 5,000 francs, mostly in the faternal thing above droned and crisp, new-looking notes. I say It was an old gay now, pulsed, pulsed and droned. With several old letters still in their The dull but deadly drone of "Achtung Minen." Well, they sudden resolution I drained my envelopes. o high - flying V1 impinged were cooling their heels now and glass, stood up, then the noise

self on my cognac-corroded seases as 1 drained the last drop it I be for all the good I stopped as if cut off with a giant

was doing here.

blade. We all did the same thing. from the sticky glass. Germaine, the Flemish serving girl who

had been standing, I

I on my

I stood up straight and went spoke good French, approached grew louder, now it had a slight belly in the corner under the through the gaping hole where my table.

She took the glass, pulse, and for some reason or flimsy table, and in two seconds the velvet curtains had hung "Cognac, M'sleur?" I nodded, ther that pulsing sound, like a I relived 20 years. CRASH. The looked down, down into a deep trying to forget that drone; like too-steady. best, always shook ceiling and my back collided, 1 pit. The cellor had really caught trying to shrug off toothache I me. I saw the girts move was surrounded by acrid smoke, I realised I was looking at a reflected bitterly.

towards some velvet curtains then blackness

huge human chocolate eclair, five behind the bar. I heard the I opened my eyes, the top of dead bodies covered with sucky they had the "wind up" and "y head was missing, I felt sure, brown chocolate. were making for the cellar. I looked up and saw stars, Red!

stars in the black night sky. I staggered away and looked looked at my hands. They were up at the star-studded, sky and bioeding from many tiny euls, thought how willingly I'd santen My uniform was black and white, der my gratully to be standing from dust, debria and ceiling at an Essex crossroads with the plaster, but I was alive and not worst sergeant in the Force.

too bad shape. I looked

Anyway, I said to myself, "I've around. My God, I was the only got the 'gen'." 7.50

"Chocolate by the hundred-The "Fliger" was goiting a bit one likely over to move again la others lay getting Into those naughty, I thought. The noise that room. 5.00 weight

dives in Stockholm Street," ha

very loud, the place pinned beneath a thick, beam, ali 4.00 had shld "poor devils at the shoose with a slight but com- quiet, dead without a doubt.

Inuous kind of tremor, very

$18.00 15.00

25.00

Cart track

words "da kéider" and I knew

I tried to pull my wits together, wondered again, rather dully if 8.50 tried to concentrate on my real there was any British chocolate 25.00 reason for being in the Cafe buried under the cellar flugs.

Colibri, Stockholm Street, Ant- 35.00

werp, on this evening of Decem~ 7.50 ber 1944. I went over again the conversation with the Co.

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and find out something about It and don't let me see until you've got one you again all walling, looking other men,

in

n

The

5,000 francs.

He

other, but deinitely waiting, and I got to my feet and came to 24.00 I thought how nice it would

knew what for for the noise the little Pioneer private. 3.00 be to be riding my bike up a cart to stop suddenly, to be cut off was right at the end of the beam, track.somewhere in rural Essex dead, for that meant "curtains another foot and it would have 15.00 with nothing at the end but a for the lot" because from the missed him. He too, must ba

1.50 half-timbered farmhouse with a

cattle register to sign. Maybe a near Indeed. 11 must be very dead with that terrible weight 1.50 glass of home-made that drone, the dandly pulse went on, faded saw his lips, almost as white as But, the drone with, digging into his body. Then I it was just a little louder, more a little, then strengthened, then his face, move. I bont down with insistent. UN :.་ རྩྭ་

faded a litle again. I heard a my our close to his lips. "Get- I looked round, a few Yanks, Yank say, "the son of a B is my wallet-mate, 8,000 francs How could 187 my in it. Just my b....y luck

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NO

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Dia

William Saroyan

Fusterday's

· story in Tab Strange Maszby Jim Phelah me Ketually, happen) · The shawar lat

enervating climate of George town. After all, Dr Jagan was out of the picture for the next few years, and The Black Watch

been

BEST BET

were on the spot. An interim &vernment had been set up and TILL, it is on this belief that the British Government had hopes are being built up that

to help in gromised

a huge Burnhum, who disclaims Com- development programme.

munism, may successfully challenge Cheddi Jagan for the It is over a year and a half political leadership of British now since the interim govern-

with it mora and ment has

responsible,

Eta approach to Ita under the late Governor-Sir

As shuwd a judge. Alfred Savage for running the . affairs as Norman Manley, And it has certainly Chief Minister of Jamalea, is active on paper. More sald to be inclined to the view cxperts have visited British that Burnham is the best bet. Gulana since the end of 1953 What sort of a man is he? An than in ril' its history, Blueprints able lawyer, called to the Bar are everywhere. There are plans, in London, he is silver-tongued programmes, schedules -galore.

can #and

sway the mob. This mass of paper is fed into

he descent,

finds his negro the governmental machinery. following mainly among But what comes oul? That is African population what the man in the street wants town,

Dr Jagon's w know.

stronghold is among the Fast The roads are still full of pot- Indian population on the sugar, holes; the rolling-stock of the estates.

wheress

the

of George-

railways is still Victorian; not a Burnham Is represented as single new farmer is settled on being violently anti-British but The land; new houses are going he would deny this. "Bliberly up, but not as many as are anti-Colonial" is: how he would argently wanted, la short, these describe himself. He held office 15 little progress to be seen by in the Jagan government of the ordinary citizen..

AN

REBELLION

:

1953

and was as difficult and intract- able as any of them. Now his

position is for from clear.

Pothapa from

excess of legal

ND ho blames the interim caution he has not told the public composed where he stands. Until he does government almost entirely of the Guianese it is premature

themselves all highly res judgment.

to pass a final -

Then will be the time to ask. prog-

ho is of the stuff of in whether

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all tolerably pectable; perous or successful their private lives. But they which leaders are made. sulter from one defect they yet, there are no signs in him

charm of a beled saan public opinion, to the persuasive

Manley, or the personality of old gang, who for so long have had a finger, in most local fire-cating Bustamente, or the forcefulness of Trinidad'a Albert No doubt public opinion Games. Something of all these is needed £ British exaggerates the significance of qualities this. But it was rightly aghast Gulana is to find the political when the interim government leadership it wants.

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