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/THE" CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1956.

GILES SAILS TO

SEEK THE SUN-

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BUT GETS A

DOSE OF HOME

dear eskimos

am again.

readers,

LETTER FROM SOMEWHERE AT SEA ...

just in case anybody has noticed mr giles is not in the paper lately hear when ever mr giles gets in a hole i do his work for him now and he is in

a hole this time because me lord beaverbrooks sent him on a holiday for the good of his health althought i think it is for the good of curybody elses health except his.

it took sevral months to get me giles on a boat going to littel land near africa where it is supposed to be hot but it isnt. mr giles dosht like holidays especially when we go with him because hes afraid faren forer foriegners might think all english poepel are like us and that will put the tin hat on british prestige for keeps.

railes

pink tacs]{

man came

we have a dear littel cabin about the size of our airing cupboard only hotter with a littel bunk hear and a littel bunk there and a littel ladder to get into the top bunks which migliøs kiks his toes on evry night and makes them pink and all the sailors want to know who is this first class passenger who uses the same language as the

Sailors use. the sailers use a funny language and i hear the sailor who brings the tea call jout "eea up for the stoways in cabin 179," thats our cabin. grandma thinks that evrybody in uniform on the boat is the steward who brings. the tea

and today the captain came along the deck with all his gold rings on his sleeve and says good morning and grandma says thank you and gives him her tray and empting cups on he looked wild and walked to the side of the ship and dropped them in the sea and went home to his cabin which is bigger than ours.

giles last night

playing cards with aunty vera when a big spain.

giles always beats ounty vera i bet along and asked me giles to show him how to play but from the way he shuffled the cards when it was his turn i think he knew how to play all the time and althought mr

the big spain man

cleans up all mr giles travel allownce before he gets off the boat.

are getting near the middle of the world so it will be nice and

captain and his sailors said we yesterday the

warm but i dont think they can have been this way before because

on the sun-deck today well i must close now as were still playing snowballs ong of the twins has just scored a direct hit on the back of the captain's head.

pee s

D

we

mr

"yours truly's my foot

The

aunty vera caught a very green face in the bay of biscy.

SINCE THIS WAS RECEIVED, GILES HAS ARRIVED IN

LAS PALMAS, CANARY ISLANDS. MORE NEWS SOON...!

FOURTEEN YEARS LATER THE MYSTERY STILL REMAINS

WHO BUNGLED DIEPPE?

EATH crookedi a had removed his trousers on Writing in tho detached

beckoning finger at the 252 small ships churning their way across the Channel towards Dieppe. It was going to be a big day. In the dawn of August 19, 1942.

officers and men,

him prisoner-he lifted

taking up his wounded colonel and,

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Burt

force

no

the

HC,

As the man came exhore they got a marderous welcome

from the German

guns.

manner of a sombre and serious historian, Col. C. P. Stacey, in amidst an interno of smoke and Vol, 1 of the "Omelal History Hreycals are, carried him to a waiting of the Canadian Army," assault craft.

distressing picture provided courage

amateurishness and maddle at the well-placed the top planning levels. shield against

able to fire almost at will too, admolts that it has not been tion. There were four days of 6,086

against these expocett, scarrying.

bad weather and cary to sort out the truth.

D-day was On almost disorganized men. Nine hours But there is no doubt that the postponed until July 8. 5.000 of them Canadians, after they had touched down, original idea and the driving July 7, German aircraft hit two

force behind

on of the landing ships, causing attacked minor damage. became involved in an action the last remnants of the Dieppe

The next day salling back to Dieppe come tram were which for blind heroism England

Operations Headquarters, "So the weather was still bad, and and bad planning can be of the 4,083 Canadians who far La any one Individual had the operation was cancelled,

authority ranked alongside that other went to Dieppe, only 2,211 came general

the back The minor disaster of British back.

dend numbered And in the red operation," writes Col. Stacey "It was the Chief of Combined arma, the Charge of the most 1,000

Canadian Army los: Operations, Lord Louis Mount- hours the Light Brigade.

more prisoners than in the 11 batten." It is only fair to add As the assault craft touched months of the later campaign that other brains shared Mount down on the shingled benches In Northwest Europe, or the 20 batten's enthusiasm for The Banking and trunting the town months in which the Canadians plan. of Dieppe, German fire, directed fought in Italy, from overhanging cliffs,

Who was to blame for the a murderous welcome into the debacle? Two new books help packed targols of helpless men,

poured

At Puys, one of the lending spots,

the enemy impaled the advancing flotilla on a search- light beam and directed them to their destruction.

In the of almost certain

officera

cora led their men shouts that died in great

throats writes R. W. Thompson in his book, "Dieppe

death with

their

by MILTON

ayer

It has been suggested that he Canadians were responsible for altering a more intelligent plan

SHULMAN.

. a Canadian who was a major in the Canadian army, Shulman is the author of Defeat in thẻ - Wart, an authoritative account of the fall of the German anny.

un pinpoint the responsibility. But though their authors have studied this amalt operation in

..

Astonishing

19.

B-The terrain.

ed

The original plan had said But those words were written "not heavily a few days after the raid when that Dieppe was

That may defended "

haye Mountbatten's headquarters had It cer- claimed DZ German aircraft been true on July 8.

and "about twice tainly was not true on August destroyed,

that number" probably destroy» ·

Mr Even or damaged. Thompson's book, at this Into Anyone who has been to Puys

says 170 enemy aircraft as I have can only wonder at we lost on that day.

were who the optimism of anyone

But the real statisties could visualise it as an invasion

much less satisfactory. Postwar It is but 200 yards documents reveal that the Ger wide, dominated by formidable

titnes

aircraft lost only 48 cliffs and fronted by a 12ft, high

and 24 sea wall covered with barbed Allied squadrons, on the

hand, lost 100 aircraft thơ RAF's heaviest loss in the ste In a single day in the entire

With 0,000 mén knowing beach. where they were going, it seems

Incredible" that the Dieppe rald was ever revived. Security under such conditions would be wire. like trying to catch the wind in

butterly nét,

General Montgomery, who ag

Into the trap

C-in-C Southeastern Lommand, Somo 030 men walked talo had the Canadian troops under this grim trap.

destroyed

wor.

are

And were the lessons learned Only 6! got at Dieppe resily so imperative

more, im

the infantry platoons. It took than portat amphibious

In North Africa, Sicily, Anzio,

at Dawn' (Hutchinson, 16s.). great detall, they still confess that an attack on Diepre was ment of Diepper was consider the conclusion flat the planners plate than Dieppe to begin our i "In those first seconds of land- themselves bamed by some bi contemplated until overy de tantamount to a defent, Mount- topography and of the enemy's Wally, it was said the Dieppe,

ing, men died in stores on the Linge of the sea.**

its aspects.

M

A mystery

him, recorrumanded that the back to England. About 230 to the planners of the Nor operation be off for all time. were killed.

And to effect this mandy Invasión? Xiadn't wo in But a week later Mountbatten's slaughter? There were at Fuys the interval dote far staff had revived it. Why? but two indifferent German

operations The

cancellation

of

little more than three hours from which wo learned much of attack drawn up by Mount Dieppe project had enused deep

Combined

to do it alone. Operations to The truth is chagrin at

more? And could WO 1101 batten's stofu.

even knew Headquarters," writes Colonci that no Canadian

"It seems impossible to avoid have found a less impregnable Bincey There the abandon-

under-rated the influence of nursery training in this kind of of the plan had been worked

batter and His subordinates strong defences," cominente W Thompson's out,

determinedly, pushed for it to be Colonel Stacey.

catastrophe, slijed the ignorant "Dieppe at Dawn" concentrates

Except for F subsequent re-mounted,

C-Supporting Ste.

clamour for on Carly Second chiefly on the actual assault decision to eliminate the detal It seems quite clear from

no aehal bombardment Front, Of course it did, but itself. He is

very sketchy bombardment, the plan piss German documents that the and only destroyers of-ahoro should it have been stilled on about its beginnings and says duced by Combined Operations enemy did not expect the raid fire support was hopelessly in the evidence of a badly planned, The same pattem of useless ille about its inspiration and was the one used on August 10. on Aligust 19. In that senso, adeguato. But was this a lesson badly mounted operatión? slaughter

"Even when all the Was repeated at planning.

Well, what Weru the security had not been broken. to be learned as late as August Berneval, Pourville and the facts are known it remains blunders? There were at least

19427 Had it not been learned benches in front of Dioppo something of a mystery," he

four major

The alert at Gallipoll and a thousand land oney writes. Itself.

A-The timing of the raid,

asks Mr Thompson Meal murprise. In these.

Mistakes loading "ta "men's, chuldrons herojsm. But it is to the plan that we After two months of inten But what had happened to

depths was the common colnage of the must

ára. the indvitsblo go to discover the root stve training, it was agreed that the German defences in the 41

main assault on day. Lieutenant D.

at fruits of war. A Andavity. * and. Green, cause of this dianaler, It was the assult should take place on days between July ་ and beaches of Dieppe itself was with one foot blown off within very detailed plans-109 pages July or one of the days August 197 On July 9 Hitler plaaned to go in half an hour imagination must not be die- a few seconds of landing, led long-and there was little room following.

himself had actually pinpointed after the flanking attacks. Even couraged even if great alaks Bro his men for another 100 yards on for flexibility loft · to the The intention was to soize the the area between Dieppe ant

bla moderately succoseful, there Justify us attoripting to turn by mortar bomb.

Fur défosta into viatoriem. That ས

0700 The Hathia was on fatima, power stations, dock and neg ved to a Pating money way is the ware

road

to more Invasion facilities, i capture

ineasures On July: 20 the fen; And, the few men who actually got The terrain, the question of barges, and generally give the nights between 10 to 20 August unfiurashod br preliminary appe past the sea wall. With a small surprise, the supporting fire, the Germans a would beating and a were declared in stato

n

of bombardment/ disaster Wid

probably most important entram og tiho. raiding party he cleared a climate of enemy strength good scure. After holding the "threatening, danger" and sub- number of streets

killed the these matters had been settles area during daylight they were ject to a special alert,

has, in ipfte of these most vital operate, An crows of some barges in. hands over desks in the War Office, to return to England,

Tho 30% Infantry Division in startling blunders both a cons War" wid Leed to-hand_fghing and was o#pe And they had been settled in

It was only on July 3 when Dieppe itself received ing es verled effort to go the gram 1948, 316 Iu had the

*** debietors to disku ngrin, L-whiskdə tured. By a ruse he manated so gloriously an inept manner the troops were, actually in their then 2,000 reinforcements during bill of pleppe, 27. Churchill Bar do sank ald Informata. Otamen tojai nie" Gumifh" "guard and that the fate of the Dieppe raid landing crafi, that they were this period," and a pants written the results justified the might be las uninusfaglio. racing back to the beach in was maled before the ink, wie fold they were not on en divisjons Was stalloned only #: heavy cost,. The largE-SERIE NIE MA singist and shortesthe enemy dry on the operation order. Apornór but on an sztuk) (pre» - dew hours martiz away ch za batile näoper furthedilise jald,!!!

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