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THE CHINA MAIL,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1959.

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Any more interference from you in political matters, Grivas, and I'll have you banished to the Seychelles.”“

India Looks Back With Pride At Her Saint And Martyr

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By Vera Albuquerque

India October 2 is celebrated as a national holiday in commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi, who was born on October 2, 1869. So it is amongst Indians abroad, who look upon Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Indian Nation. This evening in Hongkong Indians gather at the India Club, Kawloon, in his honour.

Thang niet great men have nativas has varied] Alexander from time to time. the Cat and Napoleon Bonoparty were ennquerors who milkers ovtrawed

hamy estinats by their power to destroy

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In curatete entrust. Mahatma Gandhi's claim to fame is his doctrine of non-violence which he perched, and pruetised-tire- Is throughed his life to win Independence for subject

nations.

Was

not

Inspiration Non-violenc edwardice but a dep conviction which ulted from reading the The Sermoth New Testament. on the Mount rays: "Love your en mies and pray for them that porsecute you.

This was the inspiration he hid when as a young barrister Gandhi

emme of Engin the

wej. Ny Treated in

Intens

and grand-father

were Fritte Ministers of Porbander. As a law student in England he ad- mired English ways, learning to dunce and to play the violin,

On return to his own people in India and South Africa, he 2nd cause to reflect on their poverty and lack of employ. Tent.

Give them work and wages he started collage bi- dustries, chiefly cotton spinning and, weaving,

organised and

of Khaddar, handloom eloth which he

The

production

tht people

to wear as a

atter of national pride. He ured to spln and weave his own of thes

Gandhi believed in the eman- women at a time cipation of when they were forced to live In spelusion. He objected to child marriage and advocated the remarriage of widows,

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Report on The Forgotten Battle' being fought by some of Britain's finest soldiers

Heroes in the Green Hell

[WEATING it out in the North Malayan jungle several thousand stocky little hillmen from Nepal who wear the badge of crossed kukris are carrying on a battle with Communist terrorists that has lasted now for 12 years in an outpost of the British Commonwealth.

sight.

These years have been a long and bitter struggle. But the end is in

Free, thanks to men of Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the Gurkhas.

Little recognition has come the way of these men. Like the fighters of 14th Army under Field-Marshal Bill Slim in Burma in the Second World War, this too has been very much a "forgotten army," and the Gurkhas, bravest of all soldiers, have probably received less public recognition than

any.

I have just returned from a tour of the Far East. The main object was to visit the regiment of which Jam Colonel, the 6th Queen Elizabeth's

Own Gurkha

Rifles. Both battalions of medal? Here is

by FIELD MARSHAL : LORD HARDING

Major Harkasing Rai in the send them back to.a sub lead. Six terrorista

country? We were jugated killed and the rest fled into must prevent such a catas the thickly packed trees in trophe. disorder, terrified and de- moralised. The company commander was awarded a bar to his M.C.

The

Let me tell you another action story in which my brave and cheerful Gurkhas face the problema that op operation never re- pose them in the jungle. I ceived any publicity and the Aaw a reconstruction of this.

incident during my visit. troops looked upon it as part of their daily task. A company of the Sixth at a place called- There are eight battalions-was

Gunong Rapat-four and a in the brigade of Gurkhas half miles south of Ipoh-- in the service of the British chasing a

Crown and at least six terrorists. of them have been always

small group of

The gang fled up & steep

on active service "jungle cliff and the Gurkhas, led

AL story A company of the Sixth, Soon the scent was get- bashing.”

10 out of the past 12 years coloured ribbon being pin-

jungle

operations in

ned on a soldier's chest.

by their British offieer, this regiment have spent illustrating the deeds of under Major Harkasing Rai, ting hot and the terrorists

during that result in A moved into the jungle discovered the Gurkhas be- Yet I have been appalled Lieutenant Robin Wilson, followed them up the cliff where they found traces of hind them. The trail by the number of people in using knees, toes, elbows, twisted and turned as the this country who know no and fingertips. In the face of heavy terrorist fire a small group of the company At one time it did look as reahed the top of the cliff

on

Malaya.

50

Inve

It

a rebel gang,

Charge

Led by their own trac- gang, armed with tommy thing about the Gurkhas. guns, tried to shake the Thoir caualties have been

kers the force silently and tenacious

troops off the killed and 'over 70

worried out the scent. wounded. But they

happened near the swiftly

Backbone won over 60 decorations for Cameron Highlands in the cold trail, seeing signs of hot, steamy, ever-dripping passage and occupation bravery in action..

forest where sunlight only which no white man could At last they were trapped

the hope to through in

The chase and in their breaks.

insted 14 days.

What do you have to do

in a "cold" war to get a clearings.

It's a the

London.

THE state of the

"T Cab Racket," said

see.

typical way the Gurkhas charged, with

boom year in

Gab Racket

TOM POCOCK FINDS OUT THE ́LECTURING' LIONS OF 1959

Be roused Indian women to a sense of their own dignity and poyer. Many of them played a

in his poliflent and the big part ta

cultured young social campaigns, boldly under-

sentences In the woman, "is most en- Jolm

("the cortege-is-now- James (I was Monty's Double), Roing prison

couraging. nation's cause,

The season approaching the-west-door") Richard Pape (Boldness Be My Snagge. With him are Stuart Friend) and the, Hun. Ewen just beginning should be berd, Derek

McCulloch, Montague (The Man Who Never Godfrey Talbot and Wynford was). the best for years."

-Vaughan-Thomas.

South Africa.

More than hirty years later, When a bomb exploded praye:

neeling a few yards way from him, ne beseeched the Police to have merey on the misguided youth who threw it and to convert him by reason- Jug with him.

There was nothing weak or effeminate about the Mabatma, who relied on soul-force in his struggle with the might und power of the British Raj. Good- ness and honesty gave him tha. assurance that other politicians often locked.

Untouchable Early in his life he Su through the outmoded fabric of Indian society, in which the lowest class. the Harijans DI unlouchables, had practically no rights,

On one occasion, Kasturba, Gandhi's

wife, objected giving some of these shelter in thele

household, When per suasion falled, Gandhi told her

to

Achievement Mostly we remember Gandhi

"Our

as the leader of India's move- ment for freedom and Indepen- dece. He awakened the political consciousness of the people und directed thera to resist the British without bloodshed.

August 15, 1947, when the shown that first-hand titled ear-ring janglers. British banded over power an Indian government, saw

stories of travel and adven- ture are still far and away THE DEMAND been afficult, in coping with

the most popular lectures. Gandhi's mass movement asses his character, and while most people held hin to be saint, there

Were

who'

I had been reading the

audiences want TV NEW TREND 1959 report of the Society names," I was told. "But a pair of Lecturers and had noted. of jangling ear-rings cannot hold Yet that a recent survey had an audience for an hour,"

hore, too, are the pick of the

to

the

achievement of his goal. I had

0:

"But the last big name we got was Glubb Pasha and that was three years ago,"

reflected_glory,

If the British Army would be deprived of one of its and hung on. Lower down a party tried to cover them greatest fighting forces,

with protecting firo but hud to stop for fear of hitting their own troops.

India might well have objected strongly to the continuation of the force in the British Army, but an ugreement was reached be- tween Nepal, India, and the British Government that a hanging

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A fillip

Wilson Was literally

on to the top of

force of 10,000. Gurkhas the cliff by his fingertips could be recruited.

when he saw £2 terrorist take a grenade from his Six battalions are

out in pocket, pull the pin Malaya with engineers and and roll it slowly towards signals-almost a complete him. "Fortunately," he said infantry division. Two are later, "It failed to go off.”

reinforcements in Hongkong. They are an When integral part of the British. rived the attack went in, Army.

Communists were several killed and the rest retreated. The pattern is always the same: track, trail, trap, and attack.

The grenade

ar-

I have encouraging news for them, I forecast a new social trend: the after-dinner lec: The questions that con- Lure. It's cheaper than a dance | fronted me when I returned and generates

Why must our Gurkhas Recently, in Belgravia, I attend from ny visit were "How serve sulely in the Far ed a trial run. Half a dozen would we stand without Enst? Why not bring hostesses gave dinner parties the Gurkhas ""

battalion to Britain for a tour of demonstration As far as the British duties at the School of In- Army is concerned the fantry,

after which all assembled in B dining room to listen to a diplo

lecture mai

Orient on... The

Today.

Warminster, în

He seemed to know more Gurkhas form the backbone Wiltshire? about Ming tombs than Mao but of our land forces in the his audience, half-anaesthetised Far East. With the coming It would be a tremendous

with brandy and cigar smoké,

Army, fillip. to the Gurkhas, and- gave him a rewarding round of of the all-Regular' applause when a colour silde of the War Ofice would find it, they could pass on valuable the Yangtse in flood was pro-impossible to meet Britain's battle tips to our young fected upside-down.

Yet while the demand for lec- ture Increases--there are now more than 100 women's checo clubs meeting once a month and industrial social clubs are start ing lunch-hour lectures-there is a shortage of lecturing lions. Here, then, the chance for commitments in the Far troops and give the British public a chance to show. But who had replaced the Lady Tweedsmuir, Ledy Tumer Lady Cayley, Lady Huggins,

the worst-connected hostess to East without them."

their appreciation of this. "We used to bandle names capture a lion. Thus can our splendid procession of life- (E. Amot Robertson), Lady

Winston Churchill,Dr post egotistical celebrities show Has anyone thought what fine body of men-this band judged him a sinner.

boat captains, alpinists, mis Wheeler and Lady Violet Bon

Stephen Leacock, ef without fear of interruption happens to these faithful of happy, warriors, who are. Events have shown how Gan- sionaries and fossil-hunters ham Carter.

Scatt and Hilaire and get paid for 11. Now.din-

proud to serve our dhi's struggle for independence

who peopled the lecture- pursued with love and not hatred

For cloak-and-dagger enthusi- Belloc, they said nostalgically ner guests can over-eat and go Warriors if Nepal did fall to so

the Chinese? Would we Queen. has strengthened the bonds be-hours of my schooldays? asts there is M. E. Clition at Foyle's.

when Britain and Indin.

More Relevant

some

FAVOURITE

What lecturing lions could now be hired In the flesh for 20 guineas an hour?

te leave, and seeing his armness,pnically enough. the mah she changed her mind.

who preached non-violence all Very often he would give his life died at the hands of a away Jurge sums of money to the fellow countryman on January poor, depriving himself and bis 30, 1948. tamily of the essentials of life.

Yet his doctrine of non- He lived simply and austerely, violence is more relevant now I hod therefore approuched charing the lot of the lowly then ever before when not only Foyle's, the biggest lecture peasant,

small national factions but the agency In Europe, and asked Its Mohandas Gandh) came from whole world is menaced by organiser ("Don't mention my a well-to-do family.' His father strife, hatred and insecurity, name-only Christina Foyle'z'')

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"Lecture" audiences," she said, "ard conservative. They would. rather hear Eric Shipton than Sir John Hunt talk about moun- taineering because they have known his name longer,

CHARM

"General Glubb is most popular and so is Anoua Winn Both familiar names, But our real old favourite is Bernard Newman. He's just got a new lectureInside Russia Today.”

The "Gub Racket" provides Newman with a profitable part- the career. During the winter season alone he expects to give 200 lectures at about 20 puinens a time.

General Clubs delivers a com- fortable 50 a season for Foyle's including one called Bedouin Chivalry, which is a charming gesture, considering his own anchivalrous expulsion by the Arabs.

Another popular orientalist is Prince Chula, Chakraboème ut

Slam, lute of the Court of King Chulalongkorn. Princo Chula apparently exudes # Prince- and÷I charm over the women's - luncheon clubs, who prefer his The King Anna Didn't Know lecture to his Buddhist Philoso- nity for Every Day. Foyle's catalogue of 300 lecturers reads like a directory of Valhalla, It you are wondering where your favourite celebrity of 1849 has got to, here you may And him. All the old lions of ateom radio are hore, led in person by:

Londok Kapresa Bervice.

like Captain

Nansen,

to sleep in the dark.

JAK GOES WINE. TASTING

· NOW. I'D SAY THAT WAS A DAMN GOOD YEAR."