THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1958.:
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"Grandma says every time tho now Russian Sputnik goes past she can hear
a whole pack of dogs barking."
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THIRTEEN years ago 8,000 British and Polish soldiers were either killed or wounded in u bitterly fought and tengleally lost attempt to establish a Toothold behind the lures of the This was the retreating German Army.
massed drop of parachutists at Aralem, a name now legendary. What went wrong at Arnhem? The general who led the British and Polish paratroopers in the action gives his account of it for the first time, in a book* pabfished today. It is an indictment of the The charges are pln- whole operation.
pointed below....
by HUGH POND
CAN FOR ARNHEM?
uncompromising....you may remember that "hey misleading.
Intelligence sources at Allied resigned after losing the "Kilt v. Trews" battle Airborne Corps told Urquhart between the Highland Light Infantry and the that there was only an infantry Royal Scots Fusiliers.
brigade and a few tanks in the
But Dutch Resistance men
usea.
"Second
No radio
1st.s
AIRBORNE DIVISION
SEPT. 17, 1944
MILES
GROUNDSMEN REFUSE
REFUSE TO BE BLINDED BY SCIENCE
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By BRUCE HARRIS
ATAPULTS were used by the ancient Romans for projecting arrows in battle. In modern times they have been used, by small boya for shooting at sparrows, and, in more elaborate form, by Dr Barnes Wallla, inven- Swallow tor of the dam-busting bomb and the new aeroplane, for observing the behaviour of model aircraft -and cricket balls.
Which fact led me to Ujut Dr Bames Wallis dia- Weybridge and Dr Barnes coursed to me for an hour Wallia's office at the Vickers- athematical language, much of Armstrong works. The doctor 11 beyond lay comprehension, had favented a ball designed to the underlying theory. give the bowler dendly powers of swerve or becak.
In may ignorance I hoped, 10 errow specimen and induce Jim Laker to bowl an over with it In the nets at the Oval,
Deterred
Unhappily the ball does not es ist. Its inventor was deterred the blue- from going beyond print stage by the power of the groundsman to undo on h's plich the work of the scientist ot his desk.
German 15th Army H.Q. and Berman 1st Paratroop Army
COSTERBECK
*RHINE.
9th-10th S.S. Panzer Divinlons here
BRIDGE
(objective)
HOW THEY were cut off tROM RELIEF
Though of standard weight the Hail, as designed some years ago, is hollow, Its skin of strong plastic or steel, with an "cauator" made heavy Hive the effect of a seam invisible 13 the batsman, Four innitys in e day for two cricket sides would noi be beyond its death-tealing compasz.
plastic, part solid, part ligula, with any degree of viscosity ani frictional charcteristics that a siful groundmman may choore to give it.
Quite so But I asked Dr Barnes Wollls why he had trist to marshal hin adlende kriow- ledge on the alde of the bowler against the baloma.
'Too many runs'
"Because I read that balamen were making so many runs that games could not be completed rnd attendances were sußóring," he replied.
I thought of Laker's LV wickets, for 00 runs against Aug- tralin two seasons ago; of the faet that, wet though last Bun- mer was, 158 county champion- ship matches out of the 2B played reached a resultand by no means all the drawn games
I told were dull.
Dr Darnea Wallls that, whatever the pre- sont ils of cricket, bloated scorea were no longer one of them.
"In that cuse the need for not experitnents like mine vanishes." Dr Barnes Wallis has
as well pinyed cricket since school- said he, "und we may days-and he is 70; nor has he part company."
1 teur I have killed Dr watched it. His interest was
Experiments
aroused years ago by a letter Barnes
Wallis's Interest
1 B newspaper from former cricket reform stone dead. England captain D, R. Jardine
SPACE DIVE SECRETS
in
en the ascendancy of Lat over bail, with too many drawn Eames and diminishing Interest. He bought o dozen cricket bits, used them experimentally, then gave them to a local vlear or his choir boys. Experiments, he expounded to me, convinced him that while the seam and the polish on a ball contributed bowlers Lowards awerve 19
Halton, Bucks, G.B. always believe the chief cause
doctors spin. CENIOR
from of such eccentricity Which conclusion led me outside Britain's Institute of
in the yard and the catapult
'This is
By Peter Wilsher.
apparatus mountea Aviation Medicine have been ut the on small rubber-tyred wheels trying to find out and a stout wooden frame. ARAF hospital here at Hal- dozen strands of the strongest
ton in Buckinghamshire, clastic con
stretched by armunition into the hands of overcrowded buildings was turning a handle rather like the Great Britain, how two men
The pro-lived without oxygen in the Germans because messages costing 1st Airborne dearly." wheelbrace of a car.
Of General Sir Belan Horrocks. Jectile goes inte a small cup, the four-minute dive never the Corps Commander, and now
is ectrically released castle well-known television per- and high-velocity results follow. space.
saying that ending zones were
in enemy hands were
received.
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fations."
in
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'Back spin'
was
a
through
hus
Of the infantry and tanks of sonality, Urquhart gives a des-
They are two flyers who the role 30th Corps, which were sup- cription
were blown out of a top- the airborne, "hypnotist," using this techni significance of the procession Urquhart has looked for an ex- posed to relleve
Urquhart expresses que on officers and men, waving
We paced out the 2 yards of secret Canberra 'plane at a of operations that never were," plcnation why he got hardly any General
a erickel pitch and fired a small height of over 10 miles. Reports of enemy units, rein- ghting sugport. lie says there grave doubts as to whether they is hands to put himself across
spin at a shoot- Urquhart sourly comments: bait without
Half-suffocated and near to target; Ft hit this THIS book is written by Major-General Robert forcements, and buildup in the never has been a convincing ex- were ever really aware of the
Tactical urgency of their task.
Blackout as their ejector sents "found his hypriosis far from metal In a reference to 43rd Division thing, und I could not help "wicket on the valley. Next, a
shut them into the 55-degree- Urquhart. He commanded the 1st Airborne Arnhem area are shown by the planation.
author to have been confused Air Foree was kept out of the
below-zero cunmanded by Major-General wondering why 30th Corps hdmple contrivance gave the ball
temperature 50,000 በ። #1
fired Ivor Division. He is a man of high principle, and often, it appears, deliberate- battle zone for long periods."
Thomas, be writes" been so low and unaware of "unck-upin"
feet up, the two men tore off the progress of 30th Corps in the urgency
Their
pressure when they had again. This time It bounced two
"space-type" our direction wae discouragingly
commander with
helmels in mid-air, and drop- such. a for three feet short. It side spin slow, It was close country. capacity for dynamle human re-instead of vertical spin had bet ped nearly eleven miles with-
to have
imparted it would have swung out, rotection. During the planning no pro- The battle is sald
wide of the target altogether.
"Complete rest" German prisoners.
been vision had been made for a radio yielded 139
General Horrocks de-
"But," said Dr Baracs Wallis ordered for the two mca-
do se to keep in touch direct with one obsolete tunk, five flak guns
to comment on sadly, "what is the use of scien- Flight Lieutenant John
the pilot, He is also uncompromising in his criticism of said that battered panzer units R.A.F. headquarters or with tid an 88mm, gun,
and Flying "The ensualties of the battalion declined
book
to e experiments with crickel Salis except
groundsinan is able cer Patrick Lowe. tho Arnhem. He slates the operation, the methods adopted, were relting. Later, an onleer Allied Airborne Corps.
SHAEF
tit confirmed
As a result the paratroopers of 43rd Division involved in this the
19 wounded. say:
"'I liked Bobby ball if any 10th SS the commanders....and even his troops.
these were 9th and
and their commanders sal in action totalled
the aid of a watering con and from "minor injuries, but ex- Panzer Divisions.
their sbell-shocked foxholes Within the perimeter of Arnhem Urquhart very much and I bring them to haught with navigator-while they recover
being killed
very manure? We have in a wicket o treme shock." pul in charge of a division which
he fought a For some reason these reports
Transports men R.A.F. watching
semi-glastic, material to 12 the
corps It was Monty's. The objeclaimed
were not accepted, and as late in through curtains of tak hundreds....were being wound- think as four days before the battle, treated Airborne Corps headquarters to drop fesaving supplies and ed a second time as they lay in good battle." him as a "My Landlubber" told Urquhart's staff that, the
had ill Germans
Low Infantry and looked him over with
needed reservations. To make serves
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W30. one of his 50-100 tanks; all troops were of
2011- bilgaiers had been told.
lew medical category. oftenly, that he was to Ret
But first, the plan.
uve was to capture the bridges d'elite" of the whole Army.
The Red Devils" over the Rivers Mans. Whal, and Rhine, using two US one British Airborne divisions.
This would outdank the
and st help Germaans British Second Army to force 1 way into the heart of Germany 11 was launched in September 1944. And it failed.
and there are even erllicissus of the fighting men.
nt
the division. He is now Lleut-o ABOUT this, Brigadier General Sir Gerald Lathbury. Edgar Williams, Warden
A complete lucht of etill of Rhodes House, Oxford, Arience in senior emanunders revealed when Urquhart writes who
was Monty's chief
said
were
A bold plan calling for bold planning and Incisive fighting. Yet the book jeaves the impres- slon that this plan was not about 10 operations which were Intelligence officer, curried out These S.S. division bantly handled by the Stof planned but never
between D-Day and September, known lo be in the vicinity, Two of these planned opera- but we underestimated the is would have been "utterly degree to which they had disastrous," and Urquhart
refitted. I'm sure 10 "It is impossible writes: over-emphasize the ultimate underestimated the
capacity for
General Urquhart was laken
from a normal infantry unit and
* ARNHEM, R. E. Urquhart (1., Cannell).
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Of his troops, who fought with incredible bravery against overwhelming odds for a week when they had been asked tu fight for only two days, General Urquhart has reservations. When writing of the delays in the early advance he says:-
"I have many times gone over
In my mind the reasons for the
battle going the way It did....
**I is possible that less
were
in
Mr. Lewis (22) talks
of his three
marriages
'SHUCKS, I HOPE YOU DON'T THINK IT ODD THAT MY WIFE IS SO YOUNG'.
-
£1,000-a-week for
conversation as Jerry Lee Lewis CAB
singing songs drove into town this week: Driver: "And there, air, is
respect by the troops in the Buckingham Palace."
curly stages for the German Mr Jerry Lee Lewis:
of position would have allowed "Buckingham who?"
us to get more men to the bridge, though it is doubtful if
Driver
(taetfully
RECORD ROUND by RAMSDEN GREIG
ehanging and had reached the ripe old nge of 22% when. he married Myro two months ago,
this would have made much the subject); "What would you difference to the ultimate ou*- tnost like to see in London?" come and might well have
involved a longer casually list.
Mr Jerry Loo Lewis's 15- Frankie; "Ah, "Anyhow, The caution of the year-old sister, Lops newly under fire or come Jus golla see a real live Lon- ing into it after a long lay-off don werewolf." was instinctive."
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"Ah think,” he explained at the imb, "a young girl ought to Mr Jerry Lee Lewis's wite; Lave a husband much older than my other Early in the battle Urquhart Myra (who will be 14 on July abe is. That's why_ and Brigadier Gerald Lathbury 11): "Yeah, wo saw one onca marriages falled. Dorothy and
from the head-in a movie." goi cut off
Jane wore older than me." quarters and could not even mike radio contact.
The entourage
then moved
Jerry Lee Lewis.first came to At division headquarters his into the Westbury Hotel where the front of the record business chief staff officer carried out Frankie and Myra sat down to with the number A Whole Lotta prior orders which said that watch children's TV while Shakin' Goin' On Currently he In a Louisiana is jockeying for a place in the Brigadier Hicks was to take Lewis talked, over command of the division. draw!, about his life.
Top Ten with Breathless (Lon- Brigadier "Shan" Hackelt,
He sure was tickled pink to 'den 78). the third brigade commander: bo in London but, shucks, ho and in the middle of the battle it odd that his wife
hoped England wouldn't think
Wi we are given a picture of tho twe senior officers. arguing Young.
Why, chucks, he was just 15 about who was to command
bimmelf when he married his
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style, I give you the Trenters
rsh of Pennies From Heaven.
Phil Fernando (u Burma- version of Co-La-La Coral 78), born Portuguese-Spaniard cur- On the flip-side is a pleasant res
In Eastleigh, rently resident Hants) is being sold as Mun With The Kolle Wounds In His Back.
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The
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Even the officers examining The cause of the explosion hava teen forbidden to interrupt the medical investigation. Lowe is worst affected.
He was dealing with delicato recording apparatus in the 'plane up to the moment of an Cx- plosion, and found himself ejected into sub-zero tempera- ture without gloves. Bia Sands are badly frost-bitten.
Specially designed pressure efficient suits-lightweight and
oxygen
in the plane, but automatically Inflating In case of pressure- tollure or ejection-saved the men from the worst effects.
"AL that height," a medical authority "aald, bubbles of would normally bo forced out of the blood, which would appear to be boiling."
The pressure sults were built with a self-contained compress- speciai ed air supply, and flexible chest and stomach bracing to prevent airmen "'cxploding" in the two or three seconds after ejection ot extreme altitudes,
Do Salls and Lowe fell, st attached to their ejector seals, for forty-five thousand feel be- fore the burnetrically-control- ted release trigger opened their parachutes ut 10,000 feet.
If the parachutes had opened any higher, the descent would have taken so long they would have led from cold and ex- posure.
Their suits were not healed, And the four minutes of their free full represented almost the endurance limit of their body heat,
Now these two men, who have survived, the highest "Jump" ever recorded;
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medical curiosiiles. Their case Ho-far-unsolved problems of will throw a food of light on
stratosphere safely,
"Quite frankly, this is what we've all been waiting for," sald TRANKIE VAUGHAN wasted Wing-Commander John Jewell, The sales-talk on Fernando's his time when he recorded of the Martin Baker Aircraft dise-Blondo Bombshell Kawple Doll (Philips 78). It is Co, who made the ejector equip- (Nixa 78)-breathlessly pro a triviel number, not one lay of ment.
"Our previous highest trial is worthy. claims: ""A former amateur which
election was only 42,000' feet, boxing champlost of India, Vaughan's big voice.
but we were always confident it Fernando saw a girl being at-
would work at much greater tacked by a gang in Calculta. The tight-blue-jeans brigade. He saved her iffe, but was left PECOMMENDED to Espresso altitudes. Now we know."
bar ellents:" Fried Onlons
RAF patrola were sitil guard- so will find this one to their taste. for dead with stab wounds."
wreckage, of. (Decca 78) by a rock grouping the scattered Despite this intriguing in called Lord Rockingham's X. the plane, a twin to one that formation his record has gono Cherry Walner, the martini will be used to collect high-level Information aitur Into my collection as the work glass size swinging organist, radiation
Britain's next Christmas Island H-bomba testa, of the most promising new involved in this one. comer, this year.
(London Express Service).
9th to 10th Floor, Li Po Chun Chambers, Des Voeux Rd., C. and how the battle should be first wife Dornity. By the time
rum.
8 important as a gramo In the 13 years since the he married his second wife, phono nolle to the muceces Arnhem battle, General Jane, he was a grown lad of 18, of a record is The Gimmelk. -
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