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: TO

Winter Tests

In Canada

For RAF

To gain experience of flying

low

and

and servicing aircraft in temperatures, 15 offlcers NCO's of RAF Transport Com- mand are flying from Britain this month in n York to the Winter Experimental Station of the Royal Canadian Air Force at Namao, near Edmonton, Al- berta.

At this time of the year, tempera- turck there are always well below freezing point, and 17 degrees of frost at night la common. For three weeks the members of the mission will live, work and fly under Aretle conditions.

Before leaving the U. K., the men, All pleked as specialists in their particular branch or trade are being taught how to combat the effects of intense cold, such an frost-bite and snow blindness, and equipped with special winter clothing.

An they

come from different

squadrons and stations they will be able to spread the results of their experience throughout Transport Command. The aircraft and its

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1947.

THE PARKERS

The War's Most Amazing Adventure:

by HODGES

He led Malaya's jungle

engines have been specially prepared 66TN the last five years, I have

for the intense cold.

ARE YOU SURE?

4.

ANSWERS

Queations on Page 0

1. South America and Russia. A chaperon, 3. Nitrous oxide,

Face of

American swallow tall butterfly. 6. 81. Pierre and Miquelon. 6. J. R. Wyss, ?. Apoplexy, dilapidation. 8. Louls 14th, King of France; he was a short man and wanted to appear taller. 9, Kingfisher or Halcyon, calm quiet weather. 20. He ferried the boals across the river Styx.

CROSSWORD SOLUTION

Solution to yesterday's puzzle:-

Across:-1, Bonfire. 8. Ulcer. 30, Tip. 11, d. 13, Anne. 14. Art. 16, Amuss. 10, Ocutar. 10, Inured. 21, Tied, 23, Used. 25, Gothfe. 26, Tye. 27, See 1 Down.

Down:-) and 27, Building society.

seen many reports of Com- mandos, Chindits, Force 130,

and various other similar organisa-

By PETER

guerillas

tions, and thought I had become against a ruthless chemy. Many fairly inured to them, but this story of his companions were captured and is greater than anything I have ever beheaded; he himself fell three times

sald Admiral Lord

Louis

wounded Mountbatten, former Supreme Allled into hostile hands, was

twice, and he was #ricken with Commander in South-East Asia, the malaria, pneumonia and binckwater

Rech,"

other day. "I doubt whether his re- cord can be equalled. He did more single-handed than a whole division of the British Army could have achieved."

fever.

He was completely cut off the western world; the only rumours from that seeped through were Axis- darkest Admiral Mountbatten was speak-inspired and painted the Ing of Lieut-Colonel Frederick Spen- ter Chapman, DSO and Bar, of the Cameron Highlanders.

Col Chapman, П Commando specialist, achieved some of the most gallant deeds of World War II in the heart of the Malayan where he spent 42 months organising guerilla activity during the Japanese occupation.

thing of

LOVEGROVE

distance of the railways. This re presented a bottleneck of some 50 miles through which all Japanese forces from either coast must pass, and provided excellent hide-outs in the mountain slopes, much of which were virgin jungle. His secret HQ was to be on the western slope at point and central supply base was Tanjong Malim, while the rallying

near Tras on the eastern slope.

Window on the World

per-

by

Johannesburg --Soveral British rad two religious marriages, 17 Arms, have decided to open factories civil and this latest, After the- in South Africa and many are in wedding, friends wished thom as. vestigating the possibilities, said Mr "many children 08 Abraham."" George Williamson, president of the Their reply "Thank you." South African Fesiginted Chamber

REAL MOCOY of Industries on his arrival home

Rowic-During a Milan after two montis in England. He formance of "The Betrothed"

ald his impression of England was Alessandra Manzoni, the Italian- that everyone is tired. Due to re-

Wolter striction and control, both industry

Scott, the hero and heroine were embracing when a priest, play- and the individual seem faced with ed, by the heroine's husband, who a succession of bottlenecks, and in-

was supposed to bless the happy centive is largely disappearing. couple, decided that the embrace was

THE SUNNY SIDE

too genuine and stopped the show- by beating them over the head with.

neientists,

New York decentment of "the a stick.

or

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cave was

la nu served as

hap

years

working on the most deadly weapon of mass des

CANAANITE TOMB truction over visualized" are trying Jerusalem Inscription on a stone- to and a

I a way to let the sun's deadly door covering the mouth of an ancient short ulti-vlokt rays through o

Enve found at the foot of Mount. "hole" in the earth's atmosphere 50 Gerizim, near Nablus the Schochem that they could instantly destroy of the Bible-may prove a valuabl any enemy country.

addition to knowledgn of the YANKEE "WESTAUNSTER"

Canaanite perlod In Palestine. The Glendale, Calff-A

group of amb}- lous Americans

discovered by municipal trying to workers, A a new world's Westminster the find until Government authorities Huard, was placed over- calable a Abbey. Dr. Hubert Eaton, founder of the famed Forest Lawn Memorial suggest that the cave may have 011 antiquities arrive. Initial reports advertised Park, widely Happy Cemetery la noted Americans

advanced to gain their permission to bury them country in (100

For the Court's Eaton tenants,

provided marble, 1 stained glass window, trick fighting, Immortality. DIED LAUGHING Eucharest-Am laughed him self to death during performance of Laurel and Hardy in "A Chump in Oxford" Marvel Witzner, lawyer. died of a

heart attack in the midst of roars of laughter in one of the Rumanian capital's

's small cinemas. BIG THE GAMBLE Venice-1

Valeti

letul, 06, Ice-Filippo of excitement at the Venice Casinocently and all by accident. She went. after staking a very high sum nt to the Collsium Dance Hall just as roulette. He fell dead before the A beauty

coniert was beginning. wheel stopped. He lost anyhow. Judges were not happy with con- testants and appealed for last minute his con's entrants. Two Allens-According to calculations, 70-year-old Harillas near a door where Lillan was having policemen standing

his 20th wife. She is 00. He has

She did-nd she won.

Now and again they came across The cntmy, scouring the for 200 desperato Diggers. The three "Indiana" would then cover their faces and bow low, as had been fald, down by the Japanese authorities, an enemy order for which they more than grateful.

running out.

Were

Col

So

CUPID WAS BUSY

tomb for ancient Cananalte kings.

CANADIAN SUITBUILDING Ottawa Canada's 15 shipyardr have so many orders enough to keep them going for three years and worth £27,500,000-that they are turning down business. Some 35,030 men are employed, 000 percent more than before the war, and earning st percent more. France is the biggest customer, and others are the Nether lands, Brazil,

Chipa and the Argentine.

QUEEN BY CHANCE Party-year-old

Lilian

Mille

brunette model, was died elected the beauty queen of Paris re-

When the fortnight was up,

could not have yielded better re- Chapman deelded to find new pas- lures. The Irregular operations sul's under the circumstances, but the war; and worse even than the

he did not wish to pay too many possible picture of the progress of

hostages Only 16 Miles physical trials and the ever-lurking

to fortune. Hundreds of innocent natives were being butcher- dangers must

THE operation was ill-fated from ed as reprisals; eremy reinforcements have been the feeling the start. Supplies were short, I had been brought up; his stocks of utter loneliness.

and only one wireless set was avall explosives was Col Chapman was already some-able. The units had already been they crossed the range again, but, jungle, before the war. He had been with sent out when, as he was out to after their earlier experiences, avold-| Kailīgas, shopkeeper, has married a drink persuaded her to join the con-

legendary #gure Gino Watkins on two Arelle exped-went down with malaria. A sympa. tions; was a member of a Himalayan thelle M. O. eventually allowed him troops marched down the road out-

ed the jungle set of in his turn, Col Chapman keeping on

and went by road, the way in

the best expedition; travelled to Lhasa, the to proceed before he had recover side. Col Chapman argued that the of a guest house, while Jap Holy City of Tibol; and made e

the understanding that first ascent of Chomolhari, a 24,000 would not go into the jungle--but last place where the enemy would foot peak. His experiences are re- owing to the delay, he found that look for the 200 Australians" would

an all-important bridge had been be in such an obvious spot as blown and that he could only reach guest house on the main rond, When war broke out, he joined The Cameron Highlanders, was post-Tanjong Malim by a circuitous route ed to the 5th Battalion, and the cross mountain and jungle. explorer, mountaineer and ski-expert. This was only 16 miles, slx became a great soldier, too.

During the whole of that period he lived like a native among Chinese aborigines in conditions of

2, Olla. 3, Fenture, 4, Ream. 5, Etna.extreme hardship, constantly mov- 6. Tinsel. 7, Apes. D. Circuit. 12, lng from hiding place to hiding Dale. 17, Busty, 18, Codes, 20, Duct, place, and province to province, 21, Too. 22, Die. 24, Eye.

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fish with ingeniously constructed traps.

Narrow Escapes

Shooting TheRapids' ALL

test.

with the help of the officer's boo's, when the whole camp was asleep,

he arranged his blanket to give-the Impression he was still lying there, and crept to the river bank and swam to the other side. The follow- Ing morning, the Japs sent search. parties out, but he evaded them, and made his way back to his base.

The End In Malaya

which were mountain track, but it After training as a Commando for took his party 12 days to cut their the North European campaign,

he way, through up the sleep, dark-green turned his attention to the Far East. slopes, covered with huge tropical August 1941 found him, a: Singapore, parasflic ereepers which formed phlekt ( years, they felt, bofore the penin- weak to move, when this Chinese

trees, groves and thickets of thorn, training Australian and UK troops

hawsers, unwieldy boulders covered in Commando tactics and studyins with treacherous mors, while it rain-mari collected another party of five a guerilla camp at Manchica. Onger. The US

ed 20 out of 24 hours every day,

certain aspects of guerilla warfare in the Malaya States.

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Ideal Territory

Their tommy-guna caught on every creeper and bush, and leeches gol In everywhere—even through FF seemed Ideal territory for ir-puities and bootlace holes, so that

on

regular operations. Seventy-two percent of the peninsula is still one vast, tropical forest, with some of the most Impenetrable jungle carth. A great range of mountains runs north-west to south-east; there are only two railways, one on each side of the range; the metailed roads mostly hug the railway, and the whole peninsula is interlaced by rivers, streams and creeks.

"Stay-behind parties," small units composed of tough and vigorous Europeans, Maingas and Chinese, could it was felt, make life

Very diflcult for the Japanese in these regions. But the authorities turned down the scheme at first, and valu- able time was lost. had laid down, must not be armed.

Asiatica,

they This policy was

only reversed

and

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every night there were 40 to 50 of the revolting things to be picked off their bodies, leaving open wounds.

They had only a minimum of food with them, and for the Inst six days, they limited themselves to two spoonfuls of oatmeal a day. It was a very sorry party that at last reuch-

anjong Malim

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AT their new base, they learned of the fall of Singapore, the biggest military disaster to overtake British arms in the late wer. Their task appeared at an end; it would be

sula was reconquered. Col Chop-

which had been operating around Bentong, in Paliang State, and the eight survivors planned to get away to India via the west coast.

By this time, they had become so confident that they decided to go cross country by road and on bicycle. This meant riding through the town of Kuala Kubu, where the Jape had a garrison. When they reached its outskiris, however, they found enemy guards manning a road Larcier with a brilliant are light illu- minating the road up the pass.

Even that did not daunt

had been so long on the way that the front line was already way They decided to "shoot the rapida." them. down to the south, while friends who had turned up at the and Cot Chapman led the first party, their They split into two parties of four, appointed time decided that plans which got safely past the had gone awry, and tried to reach thought five ads were fired, at guards Singapore. He learned later

that they had fallen into Jap hands

them. The remainder were caught, and

and one of them was beheaded, thai those who had

and tried to escapé had been put to

There was den any supplies, which had evidently been looted the natives. It looked as if the whole scheme

While walling for the second party to turn up, Coi Chapman came across a Chinese who had been trained in Singapore. He was the head of the local Chinese gueriling; they had

LL this time there was a price on his head and the Japs were scouring the country for him. Only once was he betrayed-by a Chinese rubber contencion. He had been lying hidden In the Jungle with malaria and pneumonia, almost too offered to transport him in a car to

the way, they fell into a trap, and and three of his comrades were killed, but

Col Chapman and another Chinese shot it out and made their escape though slightly wounded.

He

hnd two other remarkable escapes. While on his way north to contact an English ethnologist, ho fell into the hands of Chinese ban- dits, who decided to hold him for ransom. He got away by poisoning the sentries with a lethal dise which he was carrying,

chémy

by

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PY then, the war situation outside Malaya had entirely altered. The Germans were about to surren

Forces were island- hopping in the Pacife. Burma Was bring reconquered and meen and. mater!

crials were being masted, for the knock-out blow against the Japs. Personnel from Force 136 were land- ed on the west coast: Col Chapman. was able once again to get in wire... less communication, with HQ `in Kandy; long-range aircraft dropped. supplies, equipment and more train- ed men. The end was in sight. it. was April 1945.

**

told the Jap oulcer and blandlycted an admiral at least, but as:

He was soon in a more desperate situation. He had been travelling in the jungle for some days when he saw some Saltai bathing in a pool.

was He called out to them in Malay and immediately surrounded right into an enemy camp gibbering

stumbled

Resistance was useless. Col Chop man thought

in charge that he had been cut off during the re- reat, fallen in with wicked Com- munists, but had escaped and been living with Sakals for over a year. It was a relief to find himself among civilised people at last. It sounded pretty thin to him, but oddly enough, he Was believed, and the enemy even gave him. a good meal and did not scorch him. Had they done so, they would have found his diary CHAPMAN Jumped at the

(the secret parts of which were in Eskimol), From then onwards, Identity card.

a marked map and an he moved from guerilla camp to guerilla

His frat task was to destroy the camp in Perak, Selangor diary by throwing it into the camp (the HQ of the whole resistance

being notleed Then,

after hosties had broften out and bad broken down, but Col plenty of arms and food, and he

a number of Chinese and Malays and his two

assistants-

WES

certain

amount

recoverexi Chinese in the vicinity provided them with food for a fortnight.

Training Guerillas

were given some brief instruction regular and a European planter and at the Commando School before jangle expert were not dismayed. theted the Britishers to stay W. Singapore fell. Though It came too They appended to the Maloys to re late to be effective in 1941, it proved turn the explosives at least, and a

most successful experiment. The Chinese in Malaya, who number two and a quarter millions, were the most politically conselous of the native communities. Volunteers fought well in and around Singapore, and the guerilla force gradually grew to be a considerable menace to the occupiers.

The 14 Days.

chance.

THEY

shook the Jap. Disguised as In-Negri Sembilan, North Johore and dians,

their faces darkened with Pahang, training and welding them potassium permanganate, lodine, into an effective fighting force, coffee and lamp black, travelling on

only

TH were fourteen days that movement was in the Baku Caves),

Speaking of Operation "Zipper" which, but for the atom bomb, would have cleared Malaya in a few weeks at night, they indulged in an orgy Each camp was composed of 20 in Autumn 1945, Admiral Mount of destruction. They blew up seven men and 10 girls, and each had a batten has said that what

would train

trains, 40 trucks, the railway was political leader, a military leader and have helped our forces most would cut in 60 places, a number of bridges a propaganda leader. Very strict have been our agents behind the were destroyed, and 500 telephone discipline was maintained, and the enemy lines and the Chinese lines were forn down. Between 500 women did a magnificent job, cook- guerillas. When the Japanese sur and 1,500 Japanese were killed, anding, sewing and nursing, while rendered, there were 3,600 fully they leamed that the enemy, who during the periodical migrations, trained and disciplined Chinese and attributed their activities to 200 they carried loads of 60 to 70 lbs. on another 3,500 reserves. To Coll Chapman goes much of the credit for fustralians, kryt 2,000 troops in the their backs like the men, locality to hunt them up.

They had several narrow escapes food was always the greatest pro- All lived rough in the jungle, and Once they were disturbed while

They had blem Behind Enemy Lines all change on through a and curried rat, make and monkey; track railway which ran through a Now and again, they had special de swamp. Atroop · train,

licacies such as pig and deer, while

this,

As soon as the Nips began to pour

Info Northern Malaya, Col Chap- man, who was then attached to -HQ

went on a four-day recce behind the enemy lines.

a

sugar cane

searchlight on the front in the dish was obtained by the aboriginal gine, suddenly appeared unce. They raced away on the mothed of trapping. Mala fruit was sleepers, with the train rapidly over- daurien, which. Col-Chapman says

3 Indian Corps, at Kuala Lumpur, dhem. When they were about/is the most fruity of all fruits, tast-

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that

Col

to come into the ray of the searching of strawberries, grapes and Ught, there was nothing for it but opples, and with the pungent odour What he saw there convinced him jump into the swamp; at that of drains... that there Was 招 future for his moment, the whole train blew with Ench scheme. The enemy, he felt, were a deafening explosion, and bits of amount of propaganda, and

unit turned out a certain skating target. They were ad- train and Jap flew through the afr. Chapman himself edited a news sheet vancing down the roads with the in- There was such pandemonium indeed, seemed to the crowd they were able to slip away un-Malays. Only 100 English-speaking

be dressed for D

Malays. Only 100 coples of each game. They took Bttle or no pre-

Issue were printed, but they achieved enutions and were quite oblivious "Working on rood convoya was a wide and quick circulation, as the then of the

natives' movements, tust) as tricky. They chose points natives know that they would be be- Once he was overtaken on the main where the road ran through a cut-headed on the spot if found with a road by a company of Jap cyclists; ting with high banks on each alde

copy in their possession. hurriedly he put up his hands to in turning, and then they would

so that vehicles would have dificulty

seen.

hide his features, and the Nips, home-made" bombs. Tonite from ing with Sakais, aborigines of mag-

thinking he was welcoming' them, waved cheerfully and cycled on,

made

of

boo sticks filled with

me

bank on

Are withou

Col Chapman left for Colombo vin submarine from the west coast. No sooner had he reached HQ ALFSEA in May than he volunteered to back to Mainyn. He was parachut- ed into Pahang after the surrender tell and emerged from the jungle to the local commander that hostilities: ere was a little con-- were over. There- tretemps as the Nip didn't like sur- rendering

a half colonel wheri he

no naval gold braid was forthcom- Coł ing, he eventually agreed. Chapman took charge of civil affairs. and the Chinese guerillas maintain- ed order until British troops arrived" and look over.

The loss of Singapore was calamity, the Malayan campaign of 1941 a dobacle. But It is men such as Col Chapman, the deeds they accomplished and the fortitude they showed which have helped than anything to restore our prestige.. His story is of the stuff that legends. are made, and his name adds lustre to one of the highest orders in the: land.

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