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THE CHINA MAIL," MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1958.~

"Some pilots will do anything to get their names in the papers."

GURKHAS-INDIA'S FOREIGN

THEY have been called, affectionately, the

Foreign Legionaries of India. Like other famed regiments of Asia they march to the stirring strains of bagpipes fashioned on the Scottish model, and their pipers and drummers have crossed the seas to thrill audiences in Scotland's capital at the Military Tattoo which is one of the great highlights of Edinburgh's world- famous annual Festival.

They

Since have endeared them during the year 1816.

then soldiers of the Gurkha re- selves to the critical Seula us they have endeared themselves piments have created for them- *** to att with whom they have selves a reputation for gallantry

(except, and loyalty ever rome in contact

which no other of course, their enemies on the units In any army

The In battlefield).

They TC the world have ever surpassed lough le bien renowned Indeed, many would say that in war, and respected in peace, reputation 1:35 never been

equalled. as the Gurkhas.

The name Gurkha is a term which, in its stricles applica lion, refers to the reigning house of the kingdom of Negai, independent state on the south ern flanks of the mountains of the Himalayas an uncleat realm whose early history is a blend of mythology and legend, but the birthplace of which Buddha about 568 B.C.

was

I seems Want a

LEGIONARIES

By A. Carney

could say quite definitely that virite, and fanalically cour he had been one of the Gürthing, ageous.

On learning of the affair the Gurkhas found it well-nigh_lm- possible to believe one of their number could behave in such a manner and bring disgrace on the battalion. When the Hirl's insistence convinced them, they made it clear that If the cul- prit could be traced it would to bring never be necessity him before a court martial

Why not hand over Chiang to UNO?

A controversial answer

to the threat of war

in the Far East...

by A. J. P. TAYLOR

WE

are within measurable distance of a great war. A war that might well bring disaster to humanity. And yet a war that would be fought for no great cause, for no sensible reason. It would be a senseless war, produced by failure to think clearly.

The cloud that threatens war does not come from the Middie East. No thanks to UNO. The three Great Powers involved— Rusia, America, and ourselves will settle the questions there sooner or later without

war.

It is the Far East thai may set the world ablaze. And the main reason for this will be the refusal of American leaders to face reality.

Now is the time

The time has come for our leaders to speak out and to speak clearly. They must say that, whatever happens, we will take no part in a Far Eastern war. They must do everything they can to prevent the war.

They have a great opportunity, an oppor- tundly that will not last. To speak on behalf of sanity and all mankind.

•Results of U•&•

China policy

FORMOSA

Cummings

Curiously enough, in Nepal, country of about six million people who speak no less than

"Withdraw? But then I should lose face!" distinct Twenty

languages,

What is the great fact in the Even American advisers on most of the men are unwar-

Did this weaken Communism simply satisfy American like peasants. Yet once they Far East? It is the existence of the spot warned Roosevelt, This in any way? On the contrary, it vanity. have crossed the frontier. of Communist China. We do not did no good. It only got them strengthened Communist suspi- There is no great prize at thete nalive land to take up a

like Communism. We may even

The Chinese Communists sincared £15 Communists and clons of the democratic world. stake. military career

there were no such fellow-travellers. they become wish that

It drove them to increase the do not threaten our security or American security. On the con- matchless soldiers.

place as China.

system of terror.

ste tremendous Stolin was Juab as mistaken, It is just the same in private trary, there Recruits are largely

But there is the inescapable He, too, thought that Chiang was lile. drawa

You will never make a economic openings for us all, it from two particular sections of allty: China is

there for good and ordered the man civilised and friendly by we can establish peace in the

East. Communista to, co turning your back on him, Nepal's population-the Magaus the first time in a century, and Chinese

united under a secure, self- operate with him. They ignored confident Communist Govern Stalin's orders.

Non recogulilors enough, What

Most Nepalese are short and

Aro of

united for

In 1910 the Emperor wus overthrown. Chinn became theoretically a Republic.

Persecuted

Their Caprit de corps to idealistic in its quality, reaching on Intensity. of fervour that would All the reverest dis- ciplinarian with pride. A story My informant was transferred the Gurungs, who inhabit vesterly parts of the country told to me by an officer of a before the Investigation

ment. was and are Hindus by, religion. European regiment which completed, hut there is no

Take If the muurse's at-

Д look back served alongside a battalion of doubt that

into Gurichas some afteen years ago tacker was ever discovered his kick-ret, and

history. China was once great may mutee

mixed Empire. But that Empire began. in indicate their comrades removed him from Mongol origin. They live in a

After the war, good their musler-roll-permanently. and which has been desert bed

to break up as long ago as 1800.

They terrine

con- regard for their

all China, not The European Powers serambled quered

only name.

temples,

Russlan old, but As for their vallant deeds in use of numerous

for prizes, and Japan joined without both Hindu and Buddhist, of

them. been 50

gainst these hove

in- Stalin's explicit soldier al action,

and incessant

structions, tempted one night to molest a numerous that they could fill any festivals

It has been justi- holidays" girl from the nursing staff of volumes.

The Communists won for a Men of Nepal, now commonly

а medical unit. She raped fably said of the Gurkha that Gurdus, were from her altacker, and, in re- he is "he very quintessence of known as the

enlisted under special porting the incident, explained the fighting man." Arst

cheerful, treaties. between the authorities inat although it had bren ko harily, Indomitable, most More in their native state and India dark to identify the man she amenable to aliselpline, proud, thousand of them denied them- selves a life of "Incessant holl- days during World War Two, rigo bat- nerving in ifty-two 1r lions Their special charac- trlelies mado. them invaluable in jungle operations, and, while winning deathless glory and the unstintes admirwion of all fought beside them as friend and allies, they made life just about Intolerable for the Japanese who had the mis- furtune to be opposed to them.

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Little men, gental men, quick to mile, but fashioned in the mould of heroes and terrifying In war, there are no finer soldiers in the world than the Gurkhas the men of indepen dent Nepal who for genera- tions have formed a Foreign Legion of the Far East.

ROUND

UP

"Cargo Submarines”

poss

DOSSIBILITY of carrying oll under the North Pole 15 Europe is a "very promising one" eccording to Commander. W. R. Anderson, captain of the atomic submarine Nautilus, who arrived

In fack China felt to places. Sho became the prey of rival war-logtis,

Protested

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simple reason: They had the Chinese people on their side..

Suspicious

bad worac. ไป the Americans #tisk treat

Kal-slick Chiang

55 tho

The Chinese Communists are legitimate ruler of China.

mispicious, and rightly suspicious, Yet the United States are that the United States plans to themselves the products of a revolutionary war.

destroy them. Get rid of that suspicion, and tension in the Far If Chiang Kai-shek is still East will relax, It will be President of China, then the possible to settle the question of United States are stl British the islands peacefully, colonies, and Elizabeth II is their In time, too, Formosa Queen. How would the Ameri- cans like it if wo refused to recognise President Eisenhower?

Only resource

The

fact is that

will ко back where belongs. It will be restored to Chloe.

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The Communists have ruled as dictators, They have

Our Government has a great suppressed and persecuted

chance. It recognises Communist their apponents. But they have

Chino. Its volco counts in given China a strong Govern-

Let it comic for Chulang Washington, ment, and the only Government, Kuomintang, the Nationalist that promises China 鼗

great would have disappeared years ward as mediator, Party, tried to reunite Chine, future.

Nothing can undo their go were it not for the protection

The Americans But it never succeeded. The viclory.

of the American fleet, Fromosa Is as much Chinese as the avold humiliation Americans backed Chiang Kai-

simple way They hava shek, the Nationalist leader, When we ay:

Recognize Channel Islands are British. It a

their loyally to They hoped that he would make Communist China, we do not was conquered by the Japanece, paraded

on other Creat democratic meat:

Bless the Communists, just as the Channel Islands were UNO often enough China

The hope was not rejoice what has happened, conquered by the Germans. But Issues; Here is their chance. country.

we all solemnly promised to re- Refer the question of the fulfilled.

All we mean is: Recognise the

That Islands and Formosa to the facts, make peace with reality, um Formqsa to China.

United promise has been broken

Nations ruled as a dictator, Chiang

Aseembly, The American Government

As to Quemay and Molsur, the Iot the "uncommitted nationaTM and a pretty poor one at that. Dollars. poured into China by refuses to do so,

islands at present in dispute, take charge. This is a foolish the hundred million. But mos!

they are as near the Chinese solution. The Americans would Yes if no alternative mainland as the Isle of Wight is do better to behave sensibly on. Chiang's Ministers and associates. of them stuck to the angers of

poller. It is merely sulk. to England.

their own account. But If they ing, because events have The Americane cannot de- want a cover, bere it is. not

Rone the

it fend them by Бепрошет Ιπ any Kase, our own wanted them to go.

Their only resource is the course should be clear, A war treating Chiang Kai-shek's

hydrogen bomb.. This will not in the Far East would be China as one of the five Grost The United States did just destroy Chinese Communism. Denseless. It would be wicked. Powers. The British Govern- the Same with Soviet Russla But it may destroy civilisation I would be a crime ogalnut ment repeatedly protested. We from 1918 until 1933. They re- throughout the rest of the world, humanity. We should do all wo can read the flood of prolest in fused to recognise the Soviet

the black cloud can to stop it. And we shoulă Church's war memoirs.

that hangs OVET USI a wor take no part in it if it comes.

In the second World War President Roosevelt insisted on

Government.

way

This

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?

First Through The Sound Barrier

I'.

the

calculations of

by air in Britain to join the eminent scientists ar Nautilus at Portland Harbour, right, man was beaten to the Dorvet. Caplala Anderson said, sound barrier by a clumsy.

thinic commercial currying submarines are Anitely

cargo-

de-looking littlo fly.

AND NO

STREAMLINING!

plover and just ahead of the swift. But the cheetah has no only a short- stamina, and is distance runner,

The prong-horn antelope of

the

Gobi Desert, Central

a

coming in the futura. This supersonic speedster 614 mph. But she is a be--and even conservative Asia, can cover a mile They might carry priority car of the Sierra Madre Valley first-class fighter pilot. Sho scientists agree it's well minute when he is hand-pro- goes such as oil, and transport of Mexico is. the Cep lavo her eggs by firing them over 500 m.p.h.-it is eer. ex. The young deer buck moves discovered in Alaska over to henemyla or American dece like a machine-gun into the tainly the fastest living jack rabbit at 45..

at just under 69 mph; and the

ing all from fields now being

Europe by this very short fly. One American entomoio. route."

Grape Harvest

crenture.

gist has estimated that the throat and nose of deer.

Racehorses though not the male of the species travels The deer-fly's incredible

-The speedfost bird, the duck- ones you and I back tear up at 818 miles per hour, at speed is due to the wonder howk, can manage only 180 the straight of well over 4b season altitudes of around 7,000 ful efficiency of its wing miles an hour, but he is 00 miles an hour. FIRST grapes of the

from the 190 years old vine feet.

the bago and

enormous mp.h faster than his nearest- at Hampton Court, Middlesex,

rival, the golden eagle. The muscular are belix harvested. There are

great bearded vulture logs be

Its of Only half-an-inch long, power

nearly 600 bunches, weighing the doerfly looks vory system. Seven hard plates hind at 110 m.p.h. trailed by ono fg, two pounds each, The much like a honey bee massed together in the the swallow who hos n a move on when he's in a bad wet reason has made them

though when it is moving wing bane, make possible ruggle to achieve 105.

ripen unevenly, So the cutting

cannot be dono all at once. Visitors pays 0/- a pound for lic grapes. The money goes to tho Treasury. The ving has a girth of 01 inches,

H

at speed it appears only vibrations at a very high as a blurred streaks.

rate.

Tho female fly lags be Whatever the precise hind her husband at a mere speed of the deer-fly

On the ground, the cheetah load the field at about 70

But then they are built for speed. What is surprising la that even an, rlephant can get

temper.

specik when charging, is estimated at 24.5

alles an hour,"

miles an hour, which would So even Jumbo pakos MOD may bệẹp him abreast of the golden tour-minute-mile look-silly.