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"A MERRY CHRISTMAS"

-from 'Monty”

The following Christmas, message to the troops Is from Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Chief of the Imperial General Staff:

N this Christrans Day, the second "Nite the end of World War II, let us look back with gratitude on the great victories and other solid achievements Let us also which have been granted us. look forward with stern resolve and high optimism to the future and the tasks which still confront us. Glory to God in the Highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men." That is what we have been fighting for, that is what we desire: on earth peace, goodwill toward men. Christmas is the festival of the family, when we particularly think of our loved ones and friends; and in normal times we take the opportunity of gathering together with them. They are, indirectly, part of the Army: in that their faithful courage and fortitude are essential to the morale of the Army itself. And so this Christmas 1946, I send to every officer and man, and to your familles wherever they may be, my best wishes and my Christmas Greetings. Let us look forward to the future with confidence, and with the firm determination of every man to do his duty."

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Better

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by

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The Balkans again

are aflame

W

There have been indications that the guer- illa war in Northern Greece has been inten- sified, on both sides, to a state which threatens

It has been pro- · international' complications. posed in the United Nations Security Council that a commission of investigation' be sent to examine the situation on the spot. The Greek war and the dangers to peace in the Adriatic are hero decribed by

ERIC BENNETT

HILE the Foreign Minis Before we cleared Corfu roads the ters of the four Great captain of the launch ordered the perlikon, the bofors and the mueline- Powers arc debating peace treaties there is a full-guns to be loaded. I asked him why. "We had two men killed last week, scale war being fought by four and another the week before," he nations on the Greek frontier, and 450 miles of sen const which is an embattled menuce to the ships of all nations.

I have just returned fron battlefront.

answered grimly.

"Who fired on you?"

He jerked his head northwards.

"Albanian patrol boat. It is a re- thegular thing."

nat

Trained on us

In spite of protests from the Albanians, we sent minesweepers in to clear that channel, which bad been previously cleared and certi fled free of danger.

That has been, publicly stated. What has not been stated is that the tension was ,so great and the danger to British sullorn so real that the minesweepers were not only es corted by destroyers, but were cup- ported by two cruisers and an nie- craft carrier.

Twenty-two mines of German

manufacture were hauled out of that channel

It la' reasonably certain from which neighbouring country they were ob- tained.

We were lucky

0

NLY the men on the spot realised ONLY

that we were lucky to get away with the loss of 43 men and two. destroyers, ane of which is almost u total wreckt.

We might easily cruisers as well.

have lost two

Many more of us harrowly escaped the fate of the men who were burned to death in blazing ól beneath the decks of the Saumarez or those wh The Oghting In Greece is

died inore peacefully and are now merely an internal struggle between next afternoon I stood on the Government troops and Left-wing bridge of n British cruiser as welat rest beneath the lovely trees of extremists, The Greek rebels are steamed up an international channel the British cemetery in Corfu. based in Albanla, Yugo-Slavia and past the Albanlan coast. Bulgaria.

Guns manned NO war has been declared between

Later we sailed up the Adriatic to

The tension of that trip was one Trieste, of the most awesome experiences I have ever known.

Although our six-inch guns were stilt trained fore and aft, the hotels were loaded.

are but battlea

On the shore three mobile batteries the nations, being fought, men are being killed, of 4.5in, guns, manned by crews of and neutrals. including British Albanian soldiers, were trained on

On the bridge, and throughout; citizens, are being murdered on the us,

the ship, every British sailor why at mlued roads..

acllon stations, wearing steel het An even greater danger to interna-

mets. tional peace is the Adriatic from Associated Press Staff Writer

Trieste to Curfu.

Coastal batteries, fully manned by On the question of whether the OR, over ten months of

Albanian soldiers, 1946. the Foreign Minis-new Russian attitude would last also Yugo-Slav

depends much of the value of other threaten shipping that comes within ters Council and the developments during the New York range of the shore. United Nations gave cause for meetings, Principal among them is

Cuptalas and navigators of vessels the disarmament resolution. Through alling along the narrow mineswept little except pessimism.

It the General Assembly asks the channels of the Adelalle, marked on

Lo accide what

Struck a mine Security Council should be done, set up controls and the charts

at the nearest WHEN we were Inspection of machinery and eatab-routes, keep

United Nations police force. because they never know when they point to the Albanian costa sho

machine-gun on shore fired a couple

For each step forward. there seemed to be a step back. Russin seemed determined to turn international conferences into mere forums for propagan- da. Britain's Prime Minister went to Paris in the summer for what he termed "one last to effort" to get the Russians

Little seemed co-operate. come out of it.

USSIA

or

"

as snte international thetr fingers crossed,

agree to the safe- present con Rards which the United States worse than they feels she must have before she can war. turn atomic energy over to the rest of the world. Or Russia can be

Blank tubes had been fired to en- isure that the turrets were ready for action, and we were prepared to the shore within 30 answer from seconds.

I was standing next to the gun him officer, and I said to arenery the "Guns, any second now you may h

firing."

will hit a brand-new mhie in the

middle of the fairway.

of short bursts. The hazards of the Adriatic in our

peacetime so-called

were during

Out of the blue.

our ships knew they N the war

might be in for trouble and the bomb against her in any fore-roughly where to expect it.

to

jealous of her own covereignty, 60 fearful of foreign inspection, so suce that the United States will not turn

The Paris conferences and

Now

The captain, in front of me, mur- mured: How right you are."

We were warned before we sailed that at certain points on the Dalma tan const Yugo-Slny battery com-

fire."

anders might signal "Slop, or

We saw the batterier, but they let The Whole 80 by unmolested coast is armed and ready for war. On the island of Brioni, prewar mil- lionaires' playground, the wooda are thick with Yugo-Slav balterica

We could pick out their camou naged hide-outs, and we could watch the mentries binoculars through walching us.

Brlon guards the entrance to the port of Poln, where a brigade of Bri- sh guards is maintaining interna- tional order, behind n toehold of the Morgan line..

In the Trieste area American and Brilish troops while away their time. in exercises, and up in the plony nway the mountains a few miles

and wait Yugo-Slay outposts watch for the port which they intend to be the rs-sooner or later.

I wonder. ANYTHING moment and what- NYTHING enn happen in this

first weeks of the New York cable period that she wili block there is officially no danger, but death us, struck a mine in the middle of day. A Yugo-Sinv fishing boat sailing

test

comes out of the blue.

the

the necessary moves. The first on this is likely to come in Atomic Commission's sessions within the next few weeks,

A few weeks ago 1 was in Corlu, conferences seemed merely to

and with a party of British naval emphasise the cleavage between

officers was invited to cross to the of mainland for a wild boar hunt. Meanwhile, the atmosphere Russia and the English-speaking

naval-motor.launc countries. Then four-weeks deep-seated, even though involert,

surrounded the A- Greck- pessimism which ago Russia began to show signs opening of the New York conferences picked us up at three o'clock in the decided has given way to hope, even though morning, and we set sail southwards She of softening.

through Greek territorial waters. that once a disarmament plan it is still somewhat restrained. was set up she would not de- mund the right to veto the de- cisions of its enforcement agen! cies.' She. compromised on Trieste, on freedom of Danube traffic and other matters.

HAV

(AVING proposed general disarma- ment, she actually began de- mobilising her vasi army of occu- pation in Europe. She took some defents, such as on her efforts to have all United Nations members break relations with Franco Spain of armles and to secure a census

on foreign soll, with better, face than heretofore and with no wat-nuts by her delegates.

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

The declarer safeguarded his con- tract in to-day's deni through a very simple manoeuvre

Eust, dealer.

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West opened his top card in his partner's heart suit, and East captur ed the queen. The heurt jack was returned; the king won and declarer then ruffed a heart before drawing two rounds of trumps,

The obvious danger on the hand, of course, was losing two diamond tricks. Many players holding the precise spots in diamonds held

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or the A-10-x. In this case, however, with East huying opened the bidding, was not sailsfled with any such

odds

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She displayed an apparent willing- Iness to lose her politient position in Persia's province of Azerbaijan rather than to stir up another hornel's nest over it.. Determined action by the

for all the missing high cords. Tu Central Government at Teheran ap-

that end, South let the diamond jack ride, and when -East won and exited parently wiped out, within a low

with his last high heart, South made days and with minimum of fighting.|

of the trick, discard- the Soviet-sponsored Azerbaijan 16-

South was short about one winnering a diamond from his own hand. his jump spade bid, but the Now East had the unpleasant choice cal government, and reopened the

solldity of his suit compensated of returning a diamond to dummy's province which had been virtually far cut off from the rest of Persin since largely for this-stretch. As a rule tenace, or a club away from the king. Russian occupation' during the war. this type of overall requires eight When he decided in favour of the winners because it invites à relse latter play, South of course ducked, from partner on less than would be and dummy's queen won the trick.

REASONS for the new attitude

and whether it would last, of course, formed the subject of much speculation. Some United Nations) delegate: pointed out that Russia needed in her fields and factorles the had bcen troops with which she her backing

nilitary diplomacy abroad, needed financial help from abroad for her ave-year plan, and biso had found that her previous attitude was building up an unpro-

table resentment against her.

There are also some who hope that Russla's diplomats have, through continued association, begun to feel moro-trustful of the West..

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ever does happen la not likely to further the cause of peace. The cap- Then the tension broke. It broke tain of a British minesweeper which with a burst of lane when the des-put into Trieste sald to me troyer Saumarez, ofcorning ahead of

"Saw a curlous thing the other

The awept passage.

down the coast with a brand-new We know it, was Less than two hours later the des-mine on board.

There new, because I went alongside and Now I wonder troyer Volage hit another. was no naval battle that day, but the had a good look.

what they were going to do with British Navy suffered a defeat.

that?" sailors were Forty-three British

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