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· THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1949.

-AND NOW WHAT ABOUT TRYING TO GROW SOME NUTS?”

Are

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"WILD

DAT?

World Copyright Dy arrangement zich Erento Standard,

JAMES CAMERON

air-gunners out-of-date?

By PAUL RICHEY

"

HE news that the RAF school sprang up. Supporters

that if the bombers Is to abolish air. argued

could not be caught by the gunners sparka the

fighters, defensive guns would old controversy. Should merely cut speed and waste bombers. carry defensive bomb load. armament? The jet nge gives the debate a new twlat.

The Air Ministry argued that fighter could always be built that would catch any bomber.

So we went! on arming

speeds of bombers and fighters The American remained more or less constant, formations which fairly with the fighter always in the bristled with guns, were lead; the bomber's defensive formidable proposition for Drms remained standard German fighters as they slug

From 1918 unti about 1938 bombers the design of military aircraft On the whole it paid divi- advanced little. The relative denda,

Fortress

the

Eung

Lewis gun in a rear cockpit.

Tho change came

1937

ged

their way across Europe. The "speed and no when, in face of the German school also scored some threat, British military aircraft

"2000"

started to catch up with the time success. The British Mos- German high- Lauftwaffe's Dornlere, Heinkels, quito and the and Messerschmitts, already flying Ju.80P, were examples- performing alarmingly well in but fighters caught them oven-

Lually. Spalni

The Danger

It was then that the "speed guns for bombers"

and

no

with

flies out to Kongwa The Report on Groundnuts

(IT WAS THE FIRST COPY THEY'D SEEN OUT THERE)

KONGWA, TANGANYIKA. CAME down into the roaring sun of Tanganyika as quickly as i

even for me it was a asperity.

could;

trip of

some

in

Three days after the publication of the groundnuts report, that departmental

сорзи dull thud, I arrived with Kongwa, the first they had received.

It is characteristic of the groundnuts scheme in both its good and bad aspects that the people who inbour in this hot, reluctant vine- vard should be the last to see the judgment on their work.

Musketeers Its facts have no parti-

HEFLIN *

ANGELA

LANSBURY

ar Queen Line

VINCENT

KEENAN

COLOR BY

I have been scampering sound this strange neighbour- ood again in what is perhaps he lowest hour of its popular eputation, getting the nutsmen to help me reassess it in the hard light of the Report.

cular surprise for them nor, 2. The Dedication

imagine, will the nciditics

the groundnuts scheme, in terms of the first ecstatic promises has failed, That puts the blame squarely on the promise, not the undertaking.

TECHNICOLOR of the coming debate. They

are adjusted to criticism course, here, they have been warned to expect the usual delayed action barrage of complaint and satire.

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It has cost ten times what they

thought, it has been ten times as tough.

But if you want depression or

area rather

Now, with the arrival of Jets. net only can bombers be made to y very high and very fast, but they can also be made to fly very near to the Sonte_Bar- rier, about 700 miles per hour varving with height.

Grent height and great speed do not alone mean that fighters cannot catch bombers. But they do mean that a fighter Intercep- tion must

be accurate to within Jet aeroplanes designed to ap- lemotor fall.

Jet beroplanes designed to ap- proach the speed of sound meet trouble as they approach the Barrier.

At such speeds they start to get "porpoise" or switchback, tail-shudder, tip a wing-and 15. eventually, if their speed

uncontrol- Increased, become

(often wish the thing had They have heard all the gags

I also have a strictly personn! been called the Sunflower now. It is not a very healthy or opinion that the existing generalable. Scheme from the start. What a desirable thing when a schema tion of groundnutters on the job A fighter plane experiencing

like this becomes a butt, the

kind of special splendid name!)

these effects-called "compres- It is no

to sell subject of manufactured jokes person, and no kidding. use trying

ability" by high-speed pilots-- It was Kongwa on the old lines now; all over East Africa.

hopelessly unsteady But in the long run that does makes a the place is running down any inevitable.

rot matter the worth of a pea- way. There is no

nut shell. It has got to show 1.000.000 acre

results. The only thing that can make this enterprisa work is Yield Per Acre.

future

cod

re

that

earth, hard

as concrete, abra-

on

*'ve 08 систу. that tears the heart out of men and machinery.

The new emphasis 13 Urambo, further west, ord the great Southern Province. As far as that goes, the old colonial dichords were right-though, as usual for the wrong reasons.

Last year it was "Give us the Job and we'll finish the tools." Now they are telling the ones about the parly who spread 30 tons of fertiliser on a field before he found it was cement,

The Corporation has asked for a lot of it. Somehow it seems to get less and less funny.

gun platform.

Not all planes react in the same way. The Gloster Meteor. for example, parts to get com- three- pressibility quarters of the speed of sound. withoul get

nearer

I do not suppose the Govern- Others ment will mind if it does nat | irouble, collect the interest on its £24,- 000,000 for a while, but sooner or later all this toll and tears und

sweat and the Borehole

at

about

The Battle

4. The Plus Side Blues will have to be translated we design a bomber to Found

THE new report does not mean much to anyone here. In

F

So this is the new problem: get la'most to the need af Into termos of # recognisable tothout

compressibility effecte, mor- quantity of pockets of Farino,

er all the sociological fighter will have to fly into zone to compressibility miracles' In the world

cannot the

overtake it and attack $1 save it.

Even if the fighter is

to

"compressibility

I spent one night at a farewell

for the Heavy Repair T party Section, in their two years they any case it is a report only up have put up with almost every to last March, and a good den! I have discovered one fact that ed for speeds beyond the Sonit discomfort and beastliness Africa has changed since then. This may contribute minutely to the Barrier where

to fade it would has to offer, doing a maddening talk in terms of eight-figure ex- literary quality of the debate, effects tend job on that first mechanical junk, penses is just as academic here The Swahili dictionary gives two have to decelerate to the sonic, improvising something out trac- as it is at home.

alternative meanings

the speed to attack the bomber. tors already half rotted away on

word "Kongwa." One is "Rich That is what lies behind the Pacific beaches.

The report has stretches of Fodder. The other is "A Slave backstage battle on British and

and cant; In vnguenesa

American bomber policy. the Stick-n Yoke."

The built them official stuff now even the truth present the frulls of this Canberra-Britain's now jet that the elves a habitable place, a good has begun to look like evasion. research impartially to both the bomber-oggests mess and club, few amenities. They say here that £24,000,000 Government and the Tories: I British at least have plumped Now they are told they must for 50 000 ton of nuts and feel there is a mot there for for speed and no guns for war go and start again, out on the seeds-the equation is not just. either of them. blue of the Southern Province. There is more for the money

Gradually they

know'ng from experience just than that. how sanguinary awful it is going

In two years they have had little else. For so long they thought of it im- patiently: "Britain does not despair 1 really insist you must "Britain look for it in London; there is does not care." It developed little of it here. in the end to resistance: "For heaven's sake, go away, and leave us alone change a word of what I wrote Their attitude could be called have rot railways, piplines, har-

know."

Then:

this is not a stunt to us, it's a job."

1. The Paradox

It is 10 months

since I was

here, and I can see no reason to

10

then. For a scheme heavily and tupidly oversold at

ome,

no inade- quately prepared for a long time, so mismanaged and so extraordinarily casual about its book-keeping, It is still the has much and so little

greatest agricultural adventure. happened since 1 was last In Konown. Ilere in the great

A lot of ill-considered talk can dusty heart of endless Africa, be explained by the curious spell the work has been extraordinary, the progress perilously slow. As this place casis over one.

far as I can see it has confirmed everyone in his own attitude;

But everyone knows now that

the strong ones in their strength, they are being represented by

to be.

The remarkable that they were not

patiently

honest.

truculent:

"We may not have got the peanuts, but we have got roads thing was all over the territory where rebelling, there were not any roads, wc et least bouring.

The technicians' approach Is In Tanganyika. We have got n "We have got the best hospital Never mind politics, this is a craft. The ather attitude school. This is polities, of the first kind,

"Above all, we have got ex- perlence-put down £10,000,000 evolution in labour conditions.

for experience, for learning They are both strictly right, what not to do in opening up though the states of mind have Africa. That's the price of one

Brabazon acroplane." noticeably married.

3. The Distrust

Nevertheless you

AY. this

how can all

cazulstry ex- plain $0 many crashing errors?

The choice of Kongwa as a

main He may be a nork, or a Ministry area for example, the grotesque man, or another boring reporter, under-estimation of costs-in

THIENE ↳ n tendency to dis- trust anyone from London.

of

exasperating history the cynies in their frustrations, the "top brass" at home through

evasions and half-truths,

In

Kongwa is still a cross be tween a gold rush city and a

It makes them very angry, Butlin camp; it still gives the quaint impression of suburbia It is even worse than the bitter in the wilderness, the Yukon venomous political attacks that I have constantly been made on trall up the Edgware-road. bas taken root now, though there are-buts where there used to be the scheme. tents, a railroad family parties

They all feel civic way to reply curious

of children bouncing around in Landrovers, '1 sensation.

to redeem the

or a swanning MP. In any case fact the absence of any real

spread he will go back and

either snap judgments or senti- costing accountancy at all.

The suggestion that this sort mentality.

of thing could not happen to a The work and the closeness of private organisation is especially the community have a slightly odd, since a private organisa- neurotic effect. It is hard in tion-the United Africa Com- that the only such isolation to integrate "alpany-did run the scheme, for

this long-term

argument of the Arst year, and left the books the makeshift inconveniences of in a fantastic muddle. - nonsense of those early fulsome the moment.

If it did not then the report those terrible

The family mails send out is lying and the Overseas Food I came down on the dried-up promises and airstrip practically with the snow blunders is to tell the true story cutting attacks and palpably Corporation is lying and Lever

that is not being quite insulelent offelal replies; it

causes a sense of anxiety. Most Brothers should use it. of the people cannot go back; are certain Overseas they live in Tanganyika now. a dust devil writhing across the

waves of There have been Interminable brick-red plains, Food Corporation officials who

on my boots. There was a cup and

of Borehola Tea, the familiar honestly done. humps of the Kiborland Hills,

There

the same big boots and funny are resented as being intolerant fairly capricious sackings. They hats, the same incurious African and dictatorial. The projection were necessary, after those early stares.

the change-over

And finally

-{London Express Service)

fare at the Sonle Barrier.

-{London Express Service)

"Tiny" Takes His

Place In

The Zoo Nursery

nursery!

UNY is the tiniest terrapin ing him for the

In the you ever did see," they say special at the London Zoo, writes laboratory, where I am, feeding Craven HIL.

him personally,

these terrapins "Normally which grow to a length of Bin.- "... or so, eat meat, fish and earth-

Tiny is a Lord Derby's water- tortoise, just arrived by air from Nigeria

How old he is no one knows, Worms. But Tiny is too small for such fare, and 1 pm giving but his sixe-about that of a pin caphnião, or water-Beas, to suit him very half-crown piece-and walght, *SUPPOSE I should point out barely 3 that em as one individual shareholder Tiny stepped out of his eggshell.

done Mr. J. W. Lester, curator of on araang 40,000,000 I have what I could to nak favour of it. reptiles, told me: "We are keep-

But few of the same people, groundnuts to sundovers is held Nevertheless, the great desire that I believe in this scheme; it to only rachms, suggest thos

from 'days of mass recruitment.

is for a sense of permanence in and none of the same brave wild to have been misleading and establishment, in administration,

above all in policy. talk.

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