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TINY AUSTER PLANES
ARE ARMY'S EYES
Taiping, July 17.
Tiny high-winged Auster planes are the eyes of the army in Malaya's jungle
war.
British army pilots fly the small single-engined aircraft over the mountainous wilderness of this country, where the Communist terrorist bands are hiding, searching out their camps and Supply dumps.
The smali planes ekum chown | Det
court for the neurest remote valleys and fit over the group of troops in the area, steep ridges [[ the tropical The soldiers brought the man jungle, where nying is bruza buck to his base. But the pilot died some time later in another erash, the chose of which was never discovered,
cotin DL all times strud e slightest slip can spell disaster.
Pilots rete the jungle country
of central Malaya B SUC the trickiest flying country the world.
VICIOUS STORMS
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Sudden down draughts suck the small Austers for hundreds of feet und dash | passenger when the plust them against the tree top be
erashed into some trees.
porting times elsewhere was knocked out,
An general. AED eller than the the
freed passenger
Jlir .
G.P.O. does can be nacertained The two የነ
then
salvaged by enquiry at the local office, anst
Limes for OB
The latest posting emergency
registered articles ATO tenorally exipment and started out for
one hour earlier than the times The nearest patrol position.
shown below. Particulars regard- Again they were lucky strugh
ing parcel mails can be tained by enquiry at shy pust thr soldjers who
vilice. brought them to safely.
Captain Whitehead sati that The construction
the tiny plats made 11 possible to sur- vive most Prashes,
of their being able make a forced insiding if some- thing goes wing. Should they cute down safely through the tops of trees. Inundreds of feet
1}tt" th"
gundi. they stell [} with the
The Auster was biggest hazard of all getting out alive.
whe mam
lv]], MeCotieji,
CHA Surgeant
Kenneth
ATC
made beatlines all over blic world with hy tale of herolsen Metonnell, Amping [yom his injuries, walkeri for 22 days towards safety until aborigines found bins,
lio ut crutches to help hts progress and livest on Jungle roots and berries. And he was nearly dend when he was brough back to civilisations.
This day-In lely-east fying ven the jungle, ut platies Just like the
which private filers base for weekend pleasure trips at home, Is one or the most dangerous jobs in Malaya,
in 34 Auster fight visited. rait of a dozen pilots two Jacl been killed m crashes
with wet almost
in the Night
every man
bost Prasher!
least once during his fort
The Austers form Royal Air Force squadrons, although the pilots are highly-trained army men, many of the officers being skilled artillery observers,
TWO DUTIES
Normally the Austers performi two duties, acting as neelal ob- Servations wants In directing artillery
fre hrk! flying communications und Halson missions,
Da
But in Malaya they are con- cerned mainly with reconnais- aunce and supply,
the
Besides hunting It Communist hiding-places, they niso nid patrols in the deep jungle by dropping messages, food and ammunition,
Much of this flying has
ta
Le dores a low nititudes and It is at those heights that the tricky Malayan weather makes
it "dley,"
Captain S Whitehead of Gillingham, Kent, who comm
Auster flight at
mands the
Taiping, salt that his pilots Dow mataly in the valleys br hind the 4,000ft mountain ridge behind the town,
To reach
operational
this
USC
ures,
they hard tu passes through the mountains.
Nearly every afternoon, eloud formed. blocking routes,
Very fust
اوم
providing
not travelling
Soldiers stogging through the jungle appreciate the work the Auster pilots are doing.
Captain Whitehead's office beats witness to this. On his walls are a collection of grim souvenirs, retrieved by ground from Communist post- £roups, tams spotted by the places.-- Chino Mail Special.
WEDNESDAY JULY 18 By Ale Fortrock pus Nawal, U SA Canoda, 6 pia.
By Surface Macau. p.m.
Peking.
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THURSDAY, JULY 19 By Air
Haskow, Shangbul,
Thailand, Pakistan, Lebanon, Ger. my. France & Great Britain, 10
Indo-China, 1 a.m. Japan, 11 a.m.
Philippines, 2 p.m. Pakistan.
Micho Post. Africa
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
HIDING BEHIND GARBAGE CANS,EH? SOME
GUNMAN!
FERDINAND
NANCY
two
REALLY
thick
Captain Whitehend said that
the pilots haul to keep
a con-
in
I slant watch on the passes
cuse they got trapped behind
the mountain ridge.
AIR POCKETS
to
It clouds
cut their cscape route,
they had to make for alternative tanding grounds, some of which were only rough strips, hacired out of the jungle. At certain times of the year, powerful air pockels develop in
mountain the
which are a menace to alley
"But we have to fly low carry out our work," Captain Whitehead wald, "This is one of the rlaks wo just have to take." It was one of these air cur- rents which sucked down one of Captain Whitehead'o plota several months ago. When his plane crashed the pilot was hanging upelilo down. In his straps.
ile eventually freed himself and, fokling his aircraft comm- pass upelda down the poollion it normally lo in 'a' planë-ho
JOHNNY HAZARD
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By Burface Chinn, People's Republic, 10.30 am Philippines, Noon. Macso, 1 p.m. Macan, p.m.
FRIDAY, tit.Y zo By Air
Thailand, Burma, India, & a.m Germany, 19 a ni. Formona," Japad), Korea, Okinawa, 11 m.
Philippines, Australia. New Zea. Sand. 3 p.m.
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Canada, p.m.
Japan, p.m.
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FRENCH RED CONGRESS
Le Havre, July 17.
The French Communist Party is about to hold its fifth national congress since the war in an atmosphere of unrest caused by Moscow's "de-Stalinisation" campaign.
The 14th Party Congress will 1. The campaign for A "Po- open tomorrow In the modernpular Front" alliance with the Town Hall of Le Havre, a Nor-Socialists who now lead France's man port which has been re- Coalition Government, built in ultra-modern style after almost complete wartime de- struction. The Congress last until July 24.
2. The Communist Party's will campaign for pence in Algeria, where 304,000 French troops are pitted against a 20-month- The French Communist Party old nationalist inurrection. The was one of the last Communist Party calls for recognition of parties outside the Soviet Union Algerian nationhood and im- to join the campaign against the mediate negotiations with cult of personality which was nationalist and insurgent lead- adopted by the Soviet Com cra for a ceasefire and pollle- munist Party At Its Moscow ment of the Algerian problem. Congress In February.
Paid Tribute
sup-
The Communist Party. porting the Socialist-led Gov- ernment in the hopo tú A bas "Populer Front" alliance, French Party been considerably embarrassed followed Moscow's lead in the by the Government's determined anti-Stalin campaign, il still drive to put down the Algerian pald tribute to Stalin's role as (uprising. theorist and governor and "in
When the
the struggle against ull enemies of the October Revoltation...
Party workers were very worried when the 150 Com-
Bix
in the building of socialism and munist deputies (144 Commun- "Progressives") in the destruction
of Germanista plus fascism."
supported the Government after it had asked the National As-
In March heresembly
for speciol on powers to deal with the Algerian
situation.
Congress provide Indications
The French may whether the democratisation or de-Stalinisation of the Party Is making any progress.
Not In Open
The French Communist Party was long considered, and prided
More recently, itself on being, the most Stalin-
"Humanite" ist of Communist
launched a campaign for peace parties out-
in Algeria. In May one edition side the Soviet Union. French Communists
was confiscated by the poller are widely con- sidered to have devoted for a report alleging "summary shooting of "personality cult" of their own around the party's Secretary General, ailing 66-year-old M. Maurice Thorez,
the
a
and executions hostages" in Algeria.
on
But the Communists did not
to the Umally well-informed Bongo into open opposition
They abstained Covernment. Communist sources have report-when the
asked Government! Plea To Primate et scores of letters pouring into
lts for a confidence vote Central Committee from North Airten policy in June and hranehes all over the country returned to its supperi on # protesting against the anti-
bill to increase old-oge Stalln Stall campaign and demanding
pensions in France. explanations. party's newspaper in Paris, nd Another subject expected to mit mitted in June that the cam-
ambe discussed at the Le Havre paign was causing "legitimate Congress is recruiting. emotion" among Party members.
Nicosia, July 17. The Senior Bishop of Cyprus, Bishop Anthimos Killum, today Archbishop telegraphed to the
of Canterbury urging him to try and slop the execution of two Cypriot larturists, Andreas
Michael and C.
Zikkus France-Presize.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
By Ernie Bushmiller
By Mik
I HEAR YOU HAVE MEASLES
By Frank Robbins
AND I'VE BEEN BLOWING HIS. LITTLE SECRET UP INTO A SAY [OPERATION! ON, JOHNNY YOU POOR FOOL, GO FIND A HOLE AND
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Humanite.
the
Other main themes of the Party Congress are expected fo
be
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Non-Communist sources esti- mated the membership of the French Communist Party at 907,000 members Immediately after the war and sald that it. had declined considerably since. At the 13th Party Congress in June 1984 a party spokesman admitted that the party had only 506,250 members and call- ed for a mass recrulting drive.
claim Party officials
that membership has been increasing ever since and is now just over 1,000,000.
Suffered Decline
Party spokesmen say
that support for the Party in the country was considerably in- creased in last January's general election. They claimed 5,023,178 votes---625,000 more than in the previous General Election in 1951, and an increase of 82 scats in the National Assembly.
In the general election in 1940 hey polled 5,489,000 votes and won 174 seats in the National Assembly.
But the Communist prass here has suffered a decline since the war. Ita dally newspapers today number neven, compared to 17 at the Liberation, and their total circulation Is now less than that of Humanite ten ycare ago.
"Correspondance de Presse." an independent agency which gathers Information about press matters, estimates that about 525,000 coples of all Communist newspaperS are sold daily. In 1940 Humanite and its evening twin. Ce Soir, cach topped 600,000 coples a day.
Six Provincials
Three
dailles Communist stopped printing in June, which has enabled Humanite. to In- crease its daily sales trom übout 100,000 to 240,000 during, re- Dent weeks, A Súnday edition,
Bells Humanite Dimanche, estimated $12,000 copies.
an
There are still six provincia! Communist dailles-Chino Mail Special.
Staff Work
Canberra, July 17.
For 110 cadele at the Royal - Australian Naval College · tho |'Navy provides 04 persons to
trules and look after thèm,
The Air Minister, fr Athol Townicy, roprementing the Navy Minister, Senator Neil O'Bulilyan, told the House of Representa- lives in onower to a question that the College has a bead-
12.
midters and 10 omewra and 71° ruings for ins airuotion, maintenance, and ad- ministration duties, kad
Avorago · yearly, cost at the „odilega wat› BA167,700 (£138,– 000 "afdeling), w. Chiria - BENE Special
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