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14 the weird

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1950.

Commings

"Action stations 3 Unidentified airborne object approaching rapidly from the west." London Express Service

TO-DAY General Briggs-that's the

new name at 'The Dog' He'll find the boys

Scoffers Denounced Him As "A Faker"...Police Labelled Him...MURDERER! Might has

ROBINSON RUSSELL LUND

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•„VIRGUÍA" BRUCE, WALISAN DEMARES

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14

NEW name is all the talk at "The Dog," exclusive Selangor Club and meeting place for the British Colony in Malaya's capital, Kuala Lum-

It is Briggs. pur.

Lieutenant-General

Sir Harold Rawdon Briggs, 55 and 6ft. tall, is the new chief bandit hunter for Malaya. He said: "I am no fool, I am not starting with preconceived ideas."

Europeans, as all whites are classed though they may come from-Australia or America, and Asinties

General Briggs

alike have become restless at by JOHN SHAW

the recent Communist suc-

of Operations in Malaya. Te

poł..

man cannot be denied his grouse.

The main 0110 here, General Briggs will find out,

L

They're saying that Russia's Baltic Wall will make Hitler's Atlantic one look like something in sand

BLACK-OUT ON THE EAST SEA

Berlin,

THE Russians want to restore the old Ger- man name for the

Baltic.

They want to call it "The East Sea" ngain, for they are determined to make it their cast sea in the East- West conflict.

So they have rung down the

by SELKIRK PANTON

marine and moved the menper into the right position arul depth for attack.

It is no accident that Russian air-sea manoeuvres are, faking sites, radar station, modern place now around Bornholm, the

best trans, and secret weapons,

end

the

This These have been perfected by Heligoland of the Daitle.

tiny strategic island controls the cried German relentista.

the Russian FACT: Feenemunde, where approaches to vis and V2 to fre at Britain, Rusalans occupied the island. Willer trefed and produced his of the sea from the West.

At the end of the wor Is now working again at full But then the Danish king, paying speed.

a modern Danegeld, gave the curtain on this scene, too, while FACT: Heavily protected sub- occupation forces 10,000 watches, acuvity goes on behind the cur marine bases are being built near and the Russians went away. tuin even more feverishly and

Wemar, near the British zone, Naw they would like it back secretly than ever.

while

the British arm blowing up again. That Is why trigger-happy

The Russians have taken Soviet fighter pilots fired on the U-boat shelters in their zone.

Monel FACT:

in former extraordinary measures to keep Privateer, a U.S. aircraft missing Lithuania, has become the chief secret their work along the const. with ten men on board.

Soviet ibmarine base in the The German population to this That, too, is why Scandinavian`

Tintie, where the Red Navy has forbidden Baltic zone has been Ashing - boats entering the 200 gubmarine Neunt dockvensis evacunted, either to the Soviet "blackout area" east of the have been established at Stettin,, zone or to the East. Danish island ar Bornholm usually disappear, to be heard of now just inside Peland, and eiro.

where along the coart.

Radar stations dot the coast from the British zone to Liban, near which the Russians

no more.

No

visitors

flole

now in Po- main mcket

IN this manner the Russians the Privateer was fired on.

hope to make it clear that they FACT: Kalbere. w not tolerate visitors any land, is Russia's where near their Eastern Baltic. hase. From there the Russians What the Russians are doing claim they could "rock" the along the shores of the former Ruhr, industrial heart of Western Baltic States East Prussia, Eurone. Naval and pumay nir Poland at the Soviet zone of bases are Eraltered along the Germany is for speculation only, coast and inland. not confirmation.

Bul All are forbidden areas. details do leak oul-some from

the millions of Germans living

"No surprise'

Ginnt luxury hotels, onco Allod now with holidaymakers, are barracks for the tens of thousank! of German workers racing to complete the Baltic Wall

The warning...

FACIL

NACHI man is cervened by Rus- sian secret police, and now and again a Western agent" or Western spy" or "anboteur" is werded out and dealt with as a warning to the others.

A few make a break and get nway. The stories they tell pre sent i corroborated pleture of Intense naval and military pre- 10: Eastern Germeny. Most of CAPTAIN BRUNSINSKI, ele paration to make the East Balle then

Montour posat doek, a Russian bulwark against the

Whetori Germany's West

te Communtam

and

Dis

conti Joka Ger.

ניין

It is being done almost on the doorston of Berlin, and right under the noses of the Finns, the Swedes, and the Danes.

is that the men feel tied by the the Russians even more. verte et Queensberry rules against So news of Husin's gigantic Compone veranst

Battic project Arteldes through man wrebere presently "Rio are

Avent merciless and brutal for

to be gifted by Western Intelli- who lashes a captured many nice after

cuencien stark be submarine. " to a tree and drives a mail

He went un to describe a spe- Some of the ports they

chal unti-U-boat weapon which Under the Hosas, too, of the into his head to make humgard scriouly. For example:-

had mines British in Labeck, only a few talk, slowly bayonets him to FACT: The Russians are tarn was 25ft. long and

He said that miles from a Russian nival base in the Belte into a foruens on attached to it.

the secret apparatus on the weapon across the frontier in the Soviet lanad

to preteel and sen The daily slog through Soviet Union's northern flank in registered any approaching sub- zone. stinking rivers, swamps, and a war with the West.

death,

eruel jungle they can stand. SPECULATION: Moscow aling Pestilential leeches

that to make this fortress impres erawi over their boiles,mable, even against an invasion on

the Normandy scale. The Rus sucking their blood, stings are constructing a Deatio

from red ants mosquitoes,

and Wall along the hundreds of miles have become of Baltic coastline which makes litter's Auntie West Wall look minor discomforts.

like a sand wall built by children These men feel they are at the seaside. being asked to be too over-

cautious

in handling an clusive enemy:

Secret weapons

CENTRE OF BALTIC MYSTERY MOVES:

BALTIC

SWEDEN.

NORTH

AIQ

LIBAY

NENEL

SEA

BORNHOLM:

ROSTOCK PEENEMUNDE LUBECK

WISMAR

STETTIN GERMANY

KOLDERG

POLAND MILES 200

(London Express Service)

C.V.R. Thompson reports the U.S.A.

I

There are

ty.

world's richest family-Johnı IDELIGHTS on life in the

D. Rockefeller jun., now 70, die- closed in a New York speech that he used to shine his father's shoes and was glad to do it.

anti-American, Dr Hans which will Schlange Schoeningen will not

come to New York as West Ger- many's first consul-general. will go to London instead.

He

Politically it is important TT'S not an all-concrete affair, this wall. It is built in depth not to antagonise anyone far out to sea and well inland, but many soldiers and police and armed with the most modera want powers, for example to defensive and offensive weapons. SPECULATION: The whole take prisoner for the dura-

rocket is trained with arca cesses. They ask if the fu- wi ning over public sup- tion as in war, suspected

bandits and helpers. ture anti-bandit policy will

Better labour con- be more ruthless.

ditions, pension, schemes for At present they must be General Briggs says: " education, health and wel- arrested and operations hin- fare. are planned io en- dered while evidence is col- won't be milder." But senior

New York. An enterprising young (Rolls-Royce). They think their re- courage waverers that de- lected and proved before a Army officers discount

í better court or detention board.

campaign. began today Englishman, Michael Dunford, new engine will be more ccano- ports that he has already mocracies have

The authorities are not

A to make divorce as ant here by the Kenya Govern-mical, and will run more quiet- asked the Government for way of life than the Com-

complacent. But all new

ment, told me that he has found munists.

"respectable" as marriage,

for the sport among an extra division of troops.

It is necessarily n slow, idens have become old ones

A kindly jurist, Ohio's # craze "General Briggs has not

For to them. They have heard effort. the painstaking

Judge Paul Alexander, set Americans who can spare time had time yet to assess reinforcements needed," the most part the 3,000,000 them so many times.

It is like a quiz book. No out on a tour to persuade and mariey for it. and Indians side

su many bookings Malays said one.

thini Kenya cannot with the Federal Govern matter what question you every State to adopt his

handle any more this season.. But This ex-C.-in-C. Burma ment, which is British ad think up you know there is model plan for ending mar- already

a perfect answer somewhere ringes that fail. will not wear uniform in his ministered.

Mr Dunford is going back to or- at the back.

Under his plan, applications new civil post as Director

This is no war. It is term-

for divorce will not be called anise big game hunting into a BECAUSE of charges that he is All taped civil disturbance. Sc

"complaints," and the word "ver fourist attraction ed a

supas in Smith versus Smith bring in thousands of dollars was brought back from re-

FTER talking for days will be banned.

every year. tirement in Cyprus, because the British-led police force are really in charge.

with scores of people

How Judge Alexander will And i will take some organis- Britain, treaty hound to

getting shades of view word it: "An application in the ing for Americans do not want protect the Federation has

points. you can even talk interests of the John Smith the traditional gafori. They want NE of New York's large store, advertised a sale of 1,500 motor caravans with hot and more than 10,000 troops, yourself out of anything. family."

men's British-made RAF.

! some naval They have the whole thing Every application will be sold running water, instead of pairs of

I found two or three hundred coastal patrols in support,

tive bearers, taped. Some people say thoroughly investigated by the tents, and lorries instead of na shoes. I stepped in to buy a pair. The bandits, undoubtedly is red-tapod.

men behaving like women at a judge's staff.

Said Judge Alexander: "When

counter. And so the cost for just one bargain

Assistants Trucks with armour-the investigators discover what's American big

to game hunter is served them five at a time Moscow-inspired are no rug-

"For all cope with the rush. By tea- tng and bobtail bunch of plated sides? Top heavy-wrong-why papa is interested in nearly £2,000 a week.

Ona blonde, shall we say there that," Mr Dunford told me, time all the shoes were gone. thugs. They are

or they would overturn ganised army split into corners. The forests are too will be a report. If the report where are hundreds of Amerl-

shows the marriage is a dead companies, ench with

an green to fire, and, though duck, the pair will be divorced Can who want to go to Kenya. FOOTBALL will not be tele- vised this year-or until at operational zone,

timber is never worked, then and there.

They want the least 24 hours after the gamo iz The dissolution will be pri- from Chicago. It was Sir Henry Gurner,

Chief grouse

local people would object.

vate and without accusations. sport. But even more than that nished. There has been too bad

an effect they want the trophies."

on paid admissions, No lies and no ɛmears." Clearing a 200-yard strip the the High Commissioner, sit-

original 5,000 length of the Siamese border is

Wilson, on- Judge Alexander claims that It seems there is a fad among Commissioner K.L. ting in his office at King's THEIR

and 4 constant strength has been cut by impossible

his model plan will not make the rich for a game room in their nouncing this, says some attend- House, high on a hill over-

machine-gun and in 21 months. searchlight

watch could never be maintain-divorce necessarily easy to ob mansions, and a game room is not ances dropped from 2,000 looking pleasure gardens, one-fifth

at ed.

tain. "If the report shows any a good game room until there is 3,000 to 170. who told me: "We are not Though outnumbered

marriage," he one of everything mounted and What, then, is the colution? chance of saving just jungle-bashing here, least 26 to one they still

AFTER one week in New York, Tommy Trinder has found a call for a supreme commander tunity for conference, consulta- but conducting a construc- keep a 5,000,000 population "The Don" bar critics hope theird, there will be every oppor- hanglug from the wall.

FTER ALL these years the Jake which he thinks will make cave the Commonwealth'a tion, and discussion. will tive campaign against Com- on the hóp.

"We'll even go in for psycho- A men of Detroit are no longer Americans laugh. This ja it: "You munism."

British officers say the biggest dollar-earning country

from Communism. Hus General analysis if it will help."

so sure that they have produced Americans are great. You gave That was ten weeks ago. morale

police eggs some startling new idea?

the world's best car engine. And us the Marshall plan and loaned

millions-then

seat NEW dollar industry is in so two firms have begun work on us Many people pin their und

A faith

the making-big-game a new engine, which is based Dammy Kaye over to bring it all hunting.

upon the design of a British one back."

of his knowledge of jungle fighting.

al

Fresh mind THE appointment of

master brain with a fresh mind is welcomed by the pistol-packing planters and

tin miners.

The high-ups already here will not forecast the Lond.

of the soldiers was never

any field on the success of higher in political warfare. It entails operations. Maybe, but

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"BATTLE OF RUSSIA" Dialogue

OH, EVERY

CLOUD HAS

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'There is no answer yet in the of quiz book.

11

(Loniton Express Service)

HOW CAN CLOUDS

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HAVE SILVER

IN THEM?

By Ernie Bushmiller

"Most of them seem to come

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