“MULE” HAD A D.S.O.
Chindit Party In Rangoon
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.)
LONDON, January 4
The Governor-General, designate of New Zealand, Brigadier Bernard Fergusson. writing in the Daily Telegraph of his experiences during his recent tour of Southeast Asia recalls a party which he organised in Rangoon of all the former Chindit officers he could And at short notice plus their wives and local friends. “There were Burmese Karens, Kachins. AngloBurmans, British and others. There were present certain strains between some of these races. They could be worse. They could be better. But on the lawn that evening we were all comrades, and the party included some high officials and two others who had at one time lain under death sentence. “Towards the end of the evening I announced that we would now give the uninitiated a demonstration of what a Chindit column looked like on the move. I detailed an elderly, tubby retired Burmese brigadier with the D.S.O, to impersonate a mule. He was led, not very docilely, round the garden, kicking out like a genuine mule, by a Karen Anglican clergyman who had taken the girdle off his cassock to serve as a head rope. So much for those who say that the many races of Burma so unhappily at feud today have nothing in common.”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29713, 5 January 1962, Page 11
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