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CAMERON cables be datelined ‘Mikindani

Bado Kidogo

IT MEANS 'NOT JUST YET” WHICH EXPLAINS WHY THE FIGHT IS TOUGH... BUT WHAT A PRIZEN

MIKINDANI (Tanganyika).

#Copyright in All Countstani P

WHY IMBER HAD TO DIE

By PETER LOVEGROVE

- suddenly rises steeply and

CIMBER on the Down,

MB

Four miles from any town," abruptly clopes down into the dip that is Imber, buried almost in tha runs a local Wiltshire couplet. chalk downs.

•

It struck me, as I drove up the There is nothing distinctive about muddy, twisting road from this solitary, Little Wiltshire village.

Three farmhouses, with rugged tools. 20

thatched Warminster through

cottages, n one-roomed and desolate open country, that school, post office, manor and public four was an extremely modest house nestle amid elm and poplar estimáto

trees, and a small alone church dominates the community. A hun- Salisbury Plain, that chalk Sahara dred and ten homely souls lived over which generallons of grumbl- and worked there, lashed by wind ing soldiers have acrambled. is and rain and snow through the long here at its blankest. For the last winter months. Once a week, five years, first American Gr's, then, bus passed through Its one street. our own men, have had their battle' There are hundreds of similar inoculation there with all the sleepy villages all over Britain, Dut realism of live ammunition thrown since Easter Monday, everybody in, and the area has now taken on knows Imber. It has made the big the depressing aspect of any battin headlines in the national papers. It feld, anywhere. Domb and shell has figured in questions in Parila- craters pockmark the ridges and the meat. It how even crepl Into wadis; rusting, husks of tanks and "ITMA": ammo boxes are dotted about the landscape; the clumps of ash and hazel trees have become naked Keg stumps; and the light brown and green slopes of the Downs are criss- crossed by countless fank-tracks and tyre marks.

Apart from a couple of decaying farmhouses, there is no Bign of human habitation until the road

or

TRAINING AREA

On Easter Monday, Imber died— officially. I will now be used By. a street and village fighting srca for Army training purposes, and its only civilian inhabilant will be

warden n land

to visitors.

discourage

The War Office has owned 25,000 neres of downland surrounding it, and most of the village since before 1934. Originally, it was used as a the first news-story to

manoeuvṛe area for tanks and other- armoured vehicles, but owing to the They will probably ca But most remain, very presence of the village, firing of live ammunition had to be confined to Mikindani, the name of the dinary, decent bodies

from two small arms ranges. For the neighbouring villager; Port workshops and offices and first four years of the war, the aren Peanut, the can-opener for grocers' counters, growling at was used for the same type East African development.

the obstinacy of this endless training as in

safety zone of 1,000 yards around There was no harbour, so Africa, eating their paludrine Imber allowed normal Ilfe to con- they are creating one. There pills, wanting their Avives, tinue there. was no railway. They are mending and making do, of modern weapons this safety zone With the increased size and range- restricted training to such a degree that when, in 1943, It was decided to convert the whole area for battic training by the U.S. Army, it was

"I don't go home," so many have said to me. "How should 17 I've sold up my home. I'm

of

peacetime, and a

making one. There are no doing it well. ronds, so they are laying them. There is no water, so they are boring madly for it, or piping it scores of miles.

priority number umpteen for a pariment's tenants, in

necessary to evacuate the War De- Everything depends on married quarter hore. This is with a cinuse in the original agree- everythings else; nothing can where I live. It's got to work." three farmers were placed on

be done until something else is done.

the

accordance

Wor Department.

A PLEDGE

But one thing is pretty clear

other farms on to me, it's about time someone land, and the agricultural workers This month, they say,

realised that man can't live by were found other cottages and em- ployment elsewhere in Wiltshire. 8.0. Custodian will arrive with Africa alone.

Before they went, a War Office materials. Meanwhile, Mr Mac- Isolation and bush-bashing is all official told them that if and when OR six hours today we sailed south through Phee, the guardian

start, but of the very well for a

when it was ever possible for the area to B grensy sea down the Tanganyika crane. sits inside its metallic the link with Britain is cut it be reoccupied, dispossessed temunts

hard to remember what the scheme would be given the first opportu coastline, three African boatmen with no depths and broods on the im- is all about to keep one's place as English between them and myself, whose ponderables of life, as he has a human being, to integrate all the nity to return.

tho Swahili begins and ends with two weary words. done for six tedious montha...

long-term weary stuff with

claim Some of the tenants now I know now indelibly the one phraso

Immediate urgencies of the outside world.

that they were given a definite that haunts all East African conversation, that

The others...

Bado Kidogo is a highly infectious pledge that they would go back epitomises everything in African progress, the

condition. I suggest (knowing the when the Americans pulled out. sedative words that hang like a motto over every ramifica. HERE in Mtwara Bay there are comculties) that the food

who is corpora- Lord Long of Wraxall, 19 men living a Robinson ton gets going and organises a ser- championing their cause, considers tion of our great Groundnut Scheme: Bado Kidogo-"Not Crusoe sort of life more isolat- vice of home newspapers for a that the War Office has a moral just yet."

ed from the world than I ever start.

responsibility to restore Tmber to its want to he, without the stimu- ing to intelligent, reasonable

All this week I have been talk-own people, "It i is a monstrous decl- lation of anything particular who had no idea, for example, of oldest

to destroy one of England's says. Imber to do until the stuff arrives. the recent goings on in Germany.

loned in Domesday Book. But the Government has made it This would be a formidable What it takes

clear that there will be no reprieve. enough tropical adventure in PROCESS of history began with In the Commons, the Financial uny Case, this groundnut A the arrival of Mr MacPhee and Secretary at the War Office remark- scheme, without having to his floating crane. Nevertheless, ited that he was fully aware of the dream up trucks where takes the eye of faith to s00 concern aroused by this trucks are, to force work out with practically nothing to cat that of any new factor, he could see no

when you live in a palm-leaf hut but regretted that, in the of tractors that have rotted doesn't come out of a tin, with cause for a furibor inquiry.

It is a moot point how many of away on Philippine beaches, to nothing to look at but the sun and

inevitable miles of the former inhabitants would want improvise something out of the rain, the

sisal, and a second cdition from to go back anyway. DiMcult of ac-. jeeps that actually arrive with January 3.

cess in the winter months, this one Remember that nothing in the big ends gone.

this time

area peaceful casis in a war scheme is easy, There is no part holds out littlo appeal to the of it that does not entail lifting younger generation, now happily yourself by your own bootstraps, settled elsewhere.

This land with the greatest physical promise of any where, already creaking with the Inbour of belated enterprise. is the land of Bado Kidogo. It is more helpless than Manana, more hopeful than Maybe. Everything is coming, but Not Just Yet.

We sailed past a spit of land into a broad bay of sullen beauty, wide and landlocked. There is a white beach, a fringe of mangroves, some huts, and one monstrous floating crane, This is Mto Mtwara. One day you may remember that jigsaw name, since one day. Mtwara will almost certainly be the biggest port in Africa.

CHOCOLATE CRISIS

THRE

by W. A. CRUMLEY "

civil

War

who made a 4-week inquiry into the forces which brought a British colony - close to HREE men embarked from Science knows only one curo for Heath Row in an old con- this virus discose-to uproot and replant. To the African farmer, each tree is a trust, sacred as soil itself, to be handed on to his nephews and posterity.

no

So much of the parliamen tary criticism at home is factual, but one feels that some of the quick-trip M.P.s might have emphasised one thing.

Every so often some snarling malcontent goes home, deter- mined to ventilate his frustra

men sion

One day the road will run all the way, the railway will be laid from Mikindani to Ruponda-and knows how far up country to await not only the peanuts, but the coal and the gold and lead and sisal and mica and graphite, and farm pro-

was mentes," he

decision absence

It has been stated that the church

good

has been damaged. That is untrue. who Carefully fenced in, it is in

repair, everything has been served, and a wedding was cele. brated there a few months-

ago-the

#

ceremony, incidentally, stopping roof

verted Halifax and are now at jazy and ignorant though he be tions and expose the plan's duce and new-born office wallahs in battle. The fittings and the

work in Accra, capital of West Africa's Gold Coast.

They are Whitehall's commission of Inquiry who flew to the Gold

the

As the looted stores of Gold Coast Coast to investigate the riots that towns still burned, the bush drums cost 28 lives, the looting that cost throbbed the rumour-"The British more than £2,500,000, and the per- sistent unrest that could cost us

colony.

д

"They will and at the root of all the trouble irrespective of ony Communist plot to set up a Union

inadequacies.

bowler hats.

One day, but Not Just Yot.

will be removed to safekeeping be- fore the fun starts.

C.V.R. THOMPSON reports the U.S. scene

SIN

run

4

make

INCE President Truman That means, to my mind, that he born in Brooklyn. I am a Manhat~ are going to destroy every tree be-

-election. tan man" fore they quit the Gold Coast and

announced that he would cunnot possibly win the

of London will be re- LOYD'S the Americans take over."

again in November, if And that is what his top strategists will tell him when they meet him by Gangs, organised

political

lieved to hear that Broadway's agitators

newspaper on Thursday. attacked

Government nominated,

FOOTNOTE: President Roosevelt most gory production of the Greek workers, the chocolate scidlers, who Columnist has tried to

tragedy "Medea" is resuming its of Socialist African Republics-an tried to cut

out diseased trees.certain that this time he will once said Pearson was o

performances. During the illness of incurable disease now destroying Chiefs men fought the gangs with be an "also ran."

its star, Judith Anderson, they have 10,000,000 cocoa trees a year, and a

*£3,000 been paying the producers cutlasses and machetes. consumer goods famine that causes

always a week. the blackest black market in the Empire.

Those stricken cocoa farms, all small holdings, stretch back from the sea for half a day's Aying. Cleared from the enveloping. tropi- cal forest, they produce 53 percent of the world's cocon, much moro of the Gold Coast's wealth,

than

hal

Pearson,

llar in his column.

אז

chronic

The columnist, Drew them Sinister attempts, some of

Americana SPORT, the successful, were made to prevent published an alleged talk on

have one alm, to win. That between tho

passes that the Palestine situation chiefs from signing orders to con-

James Masons do not appear demn dying trees.

President

and

New York news- applies, it seems, even to foxhunt- NEVER A DAY

Ing. At Ligonier, in Pennsylvania, in the American Press, and the paper proprietor.

British

latest reason is that Mrs Muson is Today the uprooting of disease- According to Pearson, President they hunted foxes in the

only manner last year, and had

calling autograph-hunters "grue- spreading trees has been forced to Truman pounded his desk in anger o standstill. The Government's as he discussed the Zionist activities one kill. For their 103rd anniver- £3,500,000 plan to stop swollen of New York's Jewish population, sary hunt recently, they used a low me, hideous, revolting, unmanner- "James and I get knocked flat," shoot and replant the withered acres

cres He is supposed to have said: "The Lying plane to guide them. Result

complains. "And the

way conjure 30,000,000 dollars is held up.

New York Jews are disloyal to their six kills.

people atare, Why, our six cate (£7,500,000) a year out of the glit Not ono nickel penny of the country. Disloyal's

York's most behave better." tering chocolate boxes and candy

£12-an-acre uproot-and-replant

Whether be

be said it or not, Tru- BROOKLYN, New stores of America.

man will not be able to live that D publicisid suburb, is a little dis- grants promised to the farmers for

Brooklyn's AE TURRAY, a Hollywood old- My map.

report down. Already unpopular appointed In de Valera. Government marked, four months has been paid.

Irlich belligerent

Vi timer, is writing a book entitled shows in great yellow weals the

with New York's 1,003,000 Jews, Irish, the most whether next two years,

to "What Price Glamour?"... Mrs scars that awollen shoot disease has the attack on swollen shoot is re- for his on-off Palestine policy, he anywhere, came to Manhattan

Jewish hall "dear old Dev" on his first visit Eleanor Roosevelt is preparing made on the face of Africa. One started or

will now lose. the solid not, 40,000,000 trees withered area alone is larger than already Infected will die, and the vote. and that is more than 15 to, his birthplace for 18 years. And speech campaign to prevent Henry PreslTM Kent. There 22,000,000 trees have world may have a taste of chocolate percent of the total New York then they heard Dev-say, almost as Wallace from getting the died.

if he were proud of it, "I was not dency. rationing.

vote.

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