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TELL ME

Tokyo, July 10,

W05

KOREA FLIERS

London Express Service

WHAT THEY NEED:

'Just bring

OUR times yesterday the twin- 6 engined United States transport plano which

carrying mo swooped in to land at Tasjon. This short, narrow, pot-holed airstrip makes the little Korean town of Thejon one of the most important centres in the world to- day.

Four times a 50 miles an hour cross-wind seized UB just as we touched ground. Four times the pilot zoomed up again, just missing a menncing belt of trees on a rise nt the end of the

runway.

He made no fifth attempt. Instead, ho circled apolo- getically over the little

camp of Nissen huts and streets of dirty looking

hovels which made

up the advance

base of M a c-

us out some

Thunderbolts'

Arthur's forces Sefton Delmer's NEWSMAP

defending Koren.

across the

Then he headed off homeward

But when I spoke with the freight now being rushed from mountains to Southern lers after they had returned the United States to Korea in

They even had the effrontery to trap a battalion of Americans. When North Koreans ollacked with their tanks from Pyontack in a southerly direction, South

WHATS GOING ON

by EPHRAIM HardCASTLE

ITTING in the box A feature

of tho 1959

UU

next to mine at the social season has been Royal Air Force dia ties held in the country.

Increase in the number of par

play at Farnborough was a

small, middle-aged man. He

The standard was set by the Earl and Counters of Lelgester,

ant unobtrusively watching who gave □ dance for their the greatest flying show daughter Anne in treasure-inden of all time.

Holkham Hall, оп the north

He was

not a guest of coast of Norfolk. the King in the Royal The party was voted the best of the year, for ito galety and the glory of its petting.

Enclosure.

He was not a guest of the Air Council in the Special the play in the Dake of Mart. Then 1,800 dancers took up

Enclosure.

borough's Blenheim Palace,

Blz Giord and lady fo

He was nover mentioned by the commentator. Ils entertained 400 guests to a dance

narne did not appear in the for their only child, Gins, at 56-page programme.

floodlit Towersey Manor, Thiime.

Lady

And yet:-

And on July 21, The display could not Shrewsbury is giving a dance is have been held

Staffordshire for without Venetia Heber-Percy, one of the her niece, him.

preltiest girls presented at Court

Warrior Chiof

The breathtaking evolu- Ühis year. tions of Vampire and Meteor, Canberra and Venom, the indescribable speed of the Hawker P 1052 and the Vickers-Armstrong

exper-

LTHOUGH real hot war has bolled up in the Far East, tio has been said about the

mental type 610-all stem- Commander-in-Chief of British med from his genius. His land forces in that theatre.

should have been the seat It is a strange omission, for

of honour.

Lieut.-General Sir John Hardling.

the right

For the unobtrusive man K. C. B., D. 8. C., M. C., in the box next to mine was colourful figure, and Sir Frank Whittle, inventor nan for a hot spot. of the jet engine.

As a fighter, he has the fury

but

How he must have gloried und: the gusto of Falbon,

commander and planner, he has of the the quiet professional efficiency

in the brilliant success of none of the flamboyance. As a

this

first revival

|R.A.F. pageant since 1937,

In those

days he was

still a junior officer work- ing out his theories in a small back room.

At Farn- borough it W 3 5 jets, jets, jets all Americana a bit Inter explor- the way, jets ing the reiglibourhood dia- which per-

Koreans itely evacuated

the town of

that Chonan was still they sent in a

coupled, so

formed Ва

battalion.

superbly that This, apparently, was what no one could the North Koreans had been doubt the waiting

From Banking supremacy for. positions of Onchorni And Ipchonni they closed in, nipped

the road to Toejon, and shut up a U.S. battalion In a minor Stalingrad.

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which he had started out.

thing. "Give 11:1 the old has to be reloaded In Jepan Thunderbolt P.43 and we will into smaller machines. "I'm sorry," the pilot said to fix up this job in no time," said me and the three soldiers he one of them.

was carrying as supercargo. "I know how badly they need this stuff" and he swept his arm over the crates of munitions

ond spares which led the I

metal-walled hold.

·

No

Time'

FOUND it was the refrain they all echoed. Even with "Du! I don't want to end my the extra fuel tanks, these fels clays in Korea,

we are flying do not allow us enough time at this either."

nor yours

tanks.

range

when

for

the

f

planes.

of Alexander.

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS British Few can vie with his full-dress

glitter. What was the comment character. of this modest man when chasing. nsked if he was not proud the fruits of hla

And,

1

as an

individual, he

is graced with many fine qualities which stem to make

per-

the sonal friend of

everyone meets.

he

During the

last war ho Was known to la

the

troops of

whose general favourite action zation was th

Larik

Icad lag Three times he was wounded, three times he won the D.5.0.

His favourite recreation gives a clue to s sleeple-

It

is

Alions

CASUAL remark of a friend,

Bn

labour so convincingly dis- there is every sign that the played?

who said that lie had spent North Koreans are mossing for

afternoon "photographing He said: a punch down the east coast in

many wild goats in Staffordshire," put the direction of the rail on air propellers about torlay, are on to the trail of one of communications centre of Taegu, there?" and then Pusan Itself.

magiers hold

"Not

Triple Knight

Britain's most curious antimal herds.

At Lord Bagot's home, on the border of Cannock Chase, under the shadow

of potteries and

ham Palace Ball-he has they are more appeared in all his finery of Tibet than of the heart of

Industrial England. medals, stors and sashes. Locals say that the goats came

Why dld the Amerkan AERICAN fliers told me that

they occupied country not build airfields in readiness

present eventuality?

Because the National Security Beard in Washington's Pentagon

In any case, they appear deter- Bullding decided two years ago, with the full approval of the mined to sever the rail and road U.S. Government, that it would in and present linking IT must have been a proud coal mines, there is a herd of Of the three other aircraft make a thorough Job of the take too much in men, money, Taelon and Pusan.

The North Koreans and their week for Mr Douglas about 70 wild goats. am materials. which I saw circling Taejon

Soviet Now the American command advantages over while we were trying to land

two Fairbanks. Twice--nt the Thunderbolts, In addition to is hurling

MacArthur American Independence Day with long

Allen, Asiatle-looking and shy, only one, I learned later, made

American rockets, it.

troops despite his undisputed command dinner and at the Bucking heads and back-sweeping korns, bombs.

white сату

They straight from the train into of air and real-

coats, black The

have range and they are iwo othera were well armoured we could

10 battle-piecemeal-anything to compelled by that came cross- in right low and stay there."

reminiscent of come stop the gaps, hold the Kum wind to follow

River line, and our examplo Where are the Thunderbolts? irstrip from

prevent this and turn back to Japan with- Not in Japan-not in the U.S.A. hands of the enemy.

falling into the out unloading their supplies for either. The last United Statca the front.

And I can tell you that, century Air Force group still equipped

in a company of warriort, Richard II, to his friend Joh one of the with Thunderbolts is

What Next? have added Munich, in Germany, an officer

statesmen, diplomats, and Bagot. here from told me after looking it up. BUT there it is, Levellers and

courtiers, there And even

are few this group s on bulldozers are very heavy

indeed who can the point of being converted to stuff. It is as much as the mall

vie with film ways can do to bring up artillery

star Fairbanka in I wonder

from the parts where it was In the

Already now, I am told, there this

matter of full-dress landed.

is evidence that Chinese troops glitter. What comes next? In my are being brought up to Man-

American task is churia to help the North Koreans, This remarkable man, whose doubles at Wimbledon there was,

Two crack

armles

are reported real-Ilfe role of courtier easily for once, not a single American To slow down the North on their way.

General Chen outshines anything that Holly on the court. All

tour men, the same trouble 1 Korean advanco do much as troops which took the island of thought up for him, wears star and Sidwell, were Australians,

Keng is marching up with the wood script writers have ever Bromwich and Quis!, Browa

Which is just many polats that up since I arrived Washington.

More Bad News Jets."

near

thin:-

They

are off to a flying start, while MacArthur's forces suffer from the slownes in developing their resource: which Invariably handicaps de-

mocracy aflocked tarlar aggressor.

by a totali-

Inexhaustible numbers They can always deploy more men.

Halaan and General

to Staffordshire in the 14th as the gift of King

Happy auguries

sport the Dominions have been swiftly

the world of

restoring British prestige.

In the final of the men's

whether, DON'T put your faith in the light of Korean experience the

optimists. Make up your US, air chiefs will not perhaps view the minds to a lot more bad news. think this one over again.

As I sat in the air bare wall- What is hampering the jets ls, ing for a plane to take me of course,

to Korea I watched that is holding up air supplies quadron after squadron of to Tacjon And piher vilai it can. American jet fighters roar of reclors of the Korean front. Under action of this rear with the assault specialists who

And though he was beaten in Chen Yi of three orders of knighthood.

the final of the to attack the enemy 300 miles That is the almost

men's singies, complete guard acllon to prepare & took the lalond of Chusan.

He is Knight Commander of the fine fighting play of 22-ye away.

absence of prepared airstrips in beachhead citadel in southern-

the British Empire, a Knight of old Australian Frunk sedman They were beautiful planes of South Korea-part from those most Korea.

Now, don't let me depress you Grace of the Order of St John, has been one of the glories of the gleaming silver, armed with now in tho hands DI the Up to the moment it does not all too much though. There is and a Knight Commander of the tournament. rocket guns and extremely fast. Northerners and the primitive look as if the tempo of beach- plenty of stuff going in by sea, Order of King George Their pilots were slim, detez ness of those few.

Not only on the tennis court head reinforcements is kept arrive, and in sufficient numbers.

Those Thunderbolts mined young men.

may yet Greece.

hos the Empire triumphed. A Fels cannot Each man wore what looked them-and the U.S. air forca the North

operate from 'pace with the continued drive of they zight well turn tho tables evening clothes is resplendent, Carried off the Open golf chom

And the left lapel of his cuth African, Bobby Locke, Koreans. Hike a deification on his back. In Japan consists

These almost ex- Asiaties are showing none of the

But it is always a dangerous n patch of cotton, with clusively of jets.

with the pionship for the second year In either for the thing to change plans as the on state occasions, message in Korean, explaining

fearful respect

miniatures of the 12

Kuccession. Nor can the larger-size trans- attacking air force or American Pentagon has done.

medal who they were,

Even so, In case they port aircraft

which he won in the war, from

Surely these аге happy. were shot down.

on these ground troops which the Tokyo I'm glad they eld, strips. This means that all air experts had hopefully expected.

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