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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 13, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday september 13, 1963 India faces Jitter War from Pakistan and China diehards fan Kenya coals by James Mitchell new Delhi special owns wd1 this autumn or sum Mer _ see another chinese thrust through the Himalayan passes into the Rich Tea gardens and oilfields of Assam this is the question indians Are anxiously debating As new reports come in daily of massive Chi Nese concentrations at their Northern Border. Indian intelligence has not always been of the Best. But there seems no doubt that an impressive military build up is taking place All along the Border. Until now however the chinese have not violated the Mcmahon line which traditionally defines India s fron tier in the North East fron tier Agency or the so called line of actual control which Marks the Middle of the demilitarized zone in Badakh. The official information in Delhi is that chinese troops have increased their activity in the disengagement zone which according to the unilateral cease fire proclaimed by peking last november should be administered Only by civil Ian police. The uncertainty about the significance of these moves is increased by the fact that Indian leaders Are still puzzled by last year s chinese strategy. After the successful Advance of its armies the peking government then with Drew its troops and later freed thousands of Indian prisoners who had fallen into its hands. Under the nov. 21 demilitarization plan which India could not but accept Chi Nese troops went 12 Miles from the Mcmahon line in the North East Frontier Agency and the same distance from the line of actual control in the Middle and Western Sec tors. The withdrawal restored More or less the Normal indians built a Road linking Tibet and Sinkiang the december plan of the six Colombo Powers Ceylon Burma Cambodia Egypt Ghana and Indonesia who wanted peking and Delhi to Start negotiating a settlement offered India two important improvements in its position. Situation in the Eastern sector of the. Birder but left some Square Miles of Badakh in chinese hands. The Gener Al impression at the time was that the Nefa offensive had served As a diversion and that the real territorial of the chinese had always been the Kasai Chin plateau in lad aka where some years before they had unknown to the according to the proposals the indians would have been Al Lowed to reoccupy militarily the 12-mile zone on their Side of the Mcmahon line and to put up in Badakh civilian Check posts alongside those established by the chinese in the demilitarized corridor. Stalemate peking however having re fused to accept these two Points or. Nehru has consistently opposed any talks As Long As the chinese would not accept Thev Colombo plan in Toto. The ensuing period of stale mate has been used by the indians to reorganize a defence system which had been totally inadequate before the Chin Ese assault. To obtain the necessary equipment the Delhi government has turned its eyes towards the . And Britain. The recently concluded air agreement with Washington and London does not give the indians the supersonic fighters which they requested. Despite understandable efforts to pre sent such a policy As consistent with the sacred principle of the agreement is in fact a warning to the chinese that in Case of a new attack the British and . Air forces Are Likely to intervene on India s Side. Considering the necessity of getting assistance from the West and also the attempt to obtain More military equip ment from the soviet the present insistence of a renewed chinese threat May not be unhelpful for the carrying out of Indian policies. But even if there is a tendency in Delhi to play up the fear of an attack this does not alter the fact that the chinese Are Evi Dently adding some military weight to the diplomatic pres sure they have been exerting until now. Legal Transfer a fairly widespread feeling in Indian political circles is that peking might want to re occupy part or the whole of the demilitarized zone in the Hope that India would then agree to negotiate a Border its possible compensations settlement which whatever would certainly entail the be Gal Transfer of Kasai Chin to the chinese. For the moment at least most observers Here still tend to think that Large scale Mili tary operations Are unlikely in the immediate future if Only because the Monsoon period is most unfavourable. The Ese government seems much More Bent on a Jitter Campaign in which the Pakistan leaders Are giving it a hand. Almost everybody in Delhi is prepared to believe that Pakistan would seize the slightest Opportunity to make a Stab at the Rich and coveted Kash Mir Valley. Such an Opportunity could come about if the chinese were to make serious trouble again on the Northern Border. But at the present stage at least it seems difficult even for the suspicious indians to imagine that Pakistan is really preparing for an organized military action in co operation with peking. A combined War of nerves however is very much on the cards the being for Pakistan finally to wring out a settlement of the Kashmir ques Tion while the chinese try once More to drag India to the con Ference table. Copyright 1063 observer foreign news service Motif erase Golf. 3% is in my conf of but Mau Mau Ore not dead by Alistair Matheson Nairobi special owns Kenyatta s Assur Ance to White settlers that they will still be needed in an inde pendent Kenya has done More than anything else to boost the morale in what once were the White at the same time however or. Kenyatta s moderate Atti tude towards the. Europeans and also the asian immigrants has not been Well received by the extremists in his own kikuyu tribe men who have sulked in silence Mau Mau rebellion collapsed. While the vast majority of the kikuyu rated among the most intelligent and industrious people of East Africa wholeheartedly support or. Kenyatta and his Kenya National Union in efforts to Lay the foundations of a stable and prosperous nation after Independence in december there Are still tribesmen who look into the past instead of adopting the progressive spirit of motto of the new Kenya. Jomo Kenyatta in 1961 press conference where he announced his support of democracy. It was a turning Point for or Kenyatta a turning away from his Mau Mau past toward a future of co operation with the White Kenya settlers. But there Are still Strong tribal forces trying to pull him . In Britain s finest hour canadians fought beside Tew by the Canadian press the few numbered and 97 of them were canadians. In that blazing summer 23 years ago they fought the Ger Man air fleets while Earth bound britons and the world watched and wondered whether a thousand years of the nazi dark Ages were about to begin. France fell june 17, 1940. Next Day prime minister Churchill warned the House of commons that the Battle of Britain was about to begin. The Battle is considered to have lasted from july 10 until oct. 31 although it continued Well into 1941. Fighter command of the Royal air Force had 50 squad Rons of hurricanes and spit fires exhausted by the Battle of France and coverage of the British army s escape from Dunke que. But it had a Brief respite while the Luftwaffe re grouped. On july 10, two formations of 150 aircraft attacked a Convoy off Dover. German swarms Sydn. Cdr. E. A. Mcnab the commander fit. Its. V. B. Corbett and g. R. Mcgregor and Fos e. W. Beardmore c. E. De p. Brown b. E. Christmas j. P. A Des loges r. L. Edwards g. G. Hyde k. W. Kerwin t. B. Little. P. W. Lochman w. B. M. Millar h. De m. Molson a. D. Nesbitt r. W. Norris j. D. Pattison 0. J. Peterson p. B. Pitcher e. M. Reyno b. D. Russel Ross Smither w. P. Springer c. W. Trevena and a. M. Yuile. British claims for the entire Battle were enemy aircraft destroyed. Luftwaffe losses actually were aircraft. Sept. 27 was the most Active and successful Day for no. 401 Squadron in the Battle. With 13 pilots it made 26 sorties on three patrols engaged 70 enemy bombers shot Down eight and damaged seven More. Battle casualties from july 10 to aug. 18, her Mann Goering sought to overwhelm Britain s fighter de fences with heavy attacks on coastal shipping harbours air Fields radar stations and air Craft factories. From aug. 24 to sept. 27, Lon Don was the chief objective of massive formations of bomber escorted by swarms of fighters Hitler issued his shrill we shall meaning invasion of Britain by sea. London s ordeal Rose to a Peak sept. 15 when the Luftwaffe suffered a major defeat. Losses were so great that the German air Force had to change its tactics again. From sept. 28 to the end of october Goering tried to overpower his Adver sary with fighter sweeps. Gradually the pressure eased. The Luftwaffe still came and the night assault raged on but the invasion by sea did not come. On aug. 29, 1940, Churchill had spoken his now famous Tri Bute to fighter command never in the Field of human conflict was so much owed by so Many to so few 1 canadians in Raf the great majority of canadians who fought in the Battle of Britain were Young men who had gone to Britain before the War to enlist in the Raf and they served in Raf units. There were however two Ca Nadian fighter squadrons. One was no. 242 Canadian squad Ron of the Raf comprising Ca Nadian fighter pilots in the Raf. The other was no. 1 fighter Squadron of the Craf which arrived in Britain june 20. Among no. 401 s pilots who took part in the Battle were first blood Mcnab Drew first blood for he Craf when he shot Down dornier bomber aug. 15. Edwards was the first member of he Craf to lose his life in combat when he was shot Down aug. 26 after destroying a Dor Nier. Sunday sept. Was the highwater Mark of the Battle. The Luftwaffe sent Over two Waves of 500 bombers each. No. 401 Squadron intercepted a for mation of 20 Heinkel in bomb ers. The Raf and anti aircraft command claimed 1185 aircraft destroyed that Day. After the War it was ascertained from German records that actual enemy losses numbered 56. Con no. 401 was in the front line of the Battle for 53 Days and destroyed 30 enemy planes. Three of its pilots Edwards Smither and Peterson were killed 10 wounded and if hurricanes lost. Many others were subsequently killed in action or in Fly Rig accidents. Mcnab Mcgregor now president of trans Canada air and Russel each of whom had destroyed at least four planes were awarded the distinguished flying Cross by the King. No. 242 Squadron fought in the Battle under famed Sydn. Cdr Douglas Bader. The 16 Canadian pilots during the Battle were fit. It. P. S. Turner Fos m. K. Brown j. G. Cave g. P Christie l. E. Cryderman r. D. Grassick w. L. Me Knight h. N. Tamblyn and pos John Benzies n. N. Camp Bell r. H. Dinah n. Hart j. B. Latta k. M. Sclanders n. K. Stansfeld and w. A. Waterton. Mcknight and Turner became two of the top aces of the War with 16te and 14 aircraft destroyed respectively. Individual scores the Squadron s total bag Dur ing the Battle was 66 planes. Menzies sclanders Campbell and Hart were killed. Other i ots died later in the War including Mcknight. Individual Canadian members of other Raf squadrons scored some 60 victories in Aerial com Bat during the Battle. One o the most successful was to j. R. Urwin Mann of Victoria a member of no. 238 Squadron who destroyed eight Naz planes. To j. E. P. Laricheliere o Montreal flying with no. 21 Squadron had the unique rec Ord of six victories in two Days aug. 14 and 15. He was Kille in action aug. 16. Of w. H. Nelson of Montrea flew with famed South Africa Ace Sailor Malan on no. 7 Squadron and destroyed five enemy planes before he hims was lost nov. 1, 1940. Wing cmdr. J. A Kent Winnipeg destroyed 13 planes using the War four during the attle of Britain when he served Ith polish Squadron. Takes on 40 before the War Kent had Een decorated for deliberately lying his plane into balloon Ables to test their strength. On oct. 1, 1940, he took on 40 Ger Man fighters alone and shot own two. Fit. It. R. A. Barton of Kam oops b.c., who later led no. 249 Squadron in Malta where Canadian Ace Buzz Beurling shot Down most of die 31 planes destroyed accounted for aircraft during and after the Battle. Wing. Cmdr. M. H. Brown o Portage la Prairie Man., Fough in the Battles of France Britain and Malta. He scored 18 vie tories and was the fourth rank ing Canadian Ace of the a behind Beurling Sydn. Cdr h. W. Mcleod 21 and Sydn Cdr. V. C. Woodward he was killed Over Sicily in 1941. In All 21 Canadian pilots were killed during the Battle of Brit Ain. Another 21 were killed in Raf coastal and bomber com mands during the same period. Security problem these men Are creating a Security problem for Kenyatta s All african government in this testing period of self Rule already gravely menaced by the dissident somalis of the Northeast Region who talk of full scale violence if denied the right to join the neighbouring somali Republic. While things have altered radically since 1952, when subversion burst into the full scale Mau Mau revolt these kikuyu feel that things have not gone nearly far enough. While it is no longer Neces sary to fight for Kenya s free Dom from colonial Rule these present Day Freedom fighters Are fiercely tribal in their out look As Well As being nationalistic. They feel that it is entirely due to the efforts of the Mau Mau fighters that Kenya has attained its present constitutional position. They maintain that to those who fought should go the chief government posts not to men of other tribes who merely sup port the kikuyu. Nationalists politically and who played no Active part in the real Freedom struggle. Little influence fortunately for or. Kenyatta s government they Sre not men of any great influence and he and his ministers can afford to ignore their criticisms to ridicule them i their Clumsy attempts at defying Law and order. Or. Kenyatta is opposed to tribalism in any form. Nevertheless disturbing re ports continue to reach Nairobi of Large scale oath taking by kikuyu tribesmen especially those near the forests where the extremists operate. Many of the ringleaders Are Mau Mau veterans All the More embittered after several years be Hind barbed wire in detention Camps where1 they defied All attempts at once again they Are organizing Para military groups of Freedom drilling them and teaching them How to use firearms. Some Are turning out crude firearms others entering villages at night trying to recruit members by vicious perverted oaths. Aims unclear what their precise Aims arc has not yet become Clear. It appears some extremists Are even thinking of organizing a coup if they feel that the kikuyu As a tribe Are losing their dominant position in ruling Kenya. Others less fanatic Hope to exert pressure on or. Kenyatta and other kikuyu leaders in the government to take a tougher line towards european Farmers and asian traders and Force them to quit Kenya after Independence. They have already served a demand upon the government that land should be issued free to All who fought in the Mau Mau movement. With unemployment now a serious prob Lem they Are also demanding a More vigorous program of Public works to ensure jobs for All. The present Pace of replacing expatriates by african civil servants is too slow for these men and they disagree with or. Kenyatta s emphasis on the need to retain experienced repatriates in High government positions. The government is standing firm on its employment and land policies. 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