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ENGAGEMENT
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The Chinese have always
ment, ofered the, sardonic comment that it seemed also to be as difficult to act as to know how to act!
THE, CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1949.
WHERE THE IRON CURTAIN COMES DOWN WITH A CLANG
He Once Hit The World Headlines
By MARGARET GILRUTH
What happened" to the Gazelle Boy, who for a brief space was front-page news throughout the world?
man
wan
But there is a sad and wistful
publicised Gazelle Boy.
That tale is one which in point of fact runs like this:
Some time ago a tribe of Bed- ouin Arabs chanced to be wan-
By ANTONY FERRY
There's no barbed wire or furniture in the government-rum pillboxes where the Iron Cur shops in the Soviet sector, A tain cuts across Berlin nowa-typist from West Berlin finds she days. In fact trams trundle for the equivalent of £10.
can by a five-piece bedroom suite over the East-West demarca- But the Barliner who is unlucky | tion line without any trouble enough to work in the Soviet sec as long as the current is on tor gets his wages paid in East But as the driver and conductor marks-roughly the same num- get out at the bottom of the Pots ber as the West sector worker, but damerstrasse and hand over to an only worth a sixth as zruch. East Zone driver and his mat
Even worse off in Berlin is the
with a clang.
The money question
¡No Crocodile
Tears On This Job
By PHILIP BLAKE
Good morning!
“Breach of contract claim over rubber."
These bridge funds really do carry things to extremes.
Regarding that cyclone we have just beard about which happen- ed in Madras on October 27, a terrespondent asks: which year?
"Warning parties hit,” ran yes- terday's headline on a statement by General LL
This, however, warning.
was a nelyil
So the Chinese airlines have
the real Iron Curtain comes down man who works (and rate at
in the Eastern sector and lives in Every facet of life is complica-the Western sector, where his Crocodile hunting is a dan tod by the two currencies, West rent and every other expense has gerous pursuit at the best of Marks and East Marks, which to be paid in the highly valued times, but, tackled in a busi- also come under the registration look like lasting another winter. West. Mark. The fact that East Marks, though
ness way, it is paying hand- ordinance. Every Side Of Life the Russians and their Communist
some dividends as one of
"Would you say Labour or the government claim they are the
affects Tanganyika's newest indus- same valne as West Marks, are every side of life. A business tries the supply of excellent Conservatives will win the next
worth only a sixth as man who lives in the British sec skins for the export market.
general election in Britain?” aks actes, the cause of mach of the tar of Berlin cabret telephone z much, is
a writer. 10 misery which still exists in this friend in the Soviet some of Ger
These skins are worth good many unless he deposits a sum to unendingly complicated city.
into bags, The ban tragedy which cover his calls with the East-sec- money for making
is
articles. This right behind the East West cur- tor trank and telephone exchange, shoes, and other rener
muddle made four Berlin Eastern sector he cannot be taken of the Government,
If a man is taken il in the peculiar industry has the blessing and so far hairdressers in •Western parts
in
the
TO
a sort of shod
in
Bat they
The tram conductor who hands maniste desperately need West Rhodesia. his tram over at the Potsdamer-marks to finance their operations
Plenty Of Them
sea
There was a fickle daughter Who spurned all her b05-
friends braughter, Until one said it in bricks and
mortar.
That cortar
"Elise Moller detained by Na- tionalists."
That couldn't be a relative of our old friend Eisie?
•
"N. Y. Stock Market declines due to profttaking"
(Don't you just love these magnißeent American contribu- tions to the language?) I under- stand, however, that on this oc- casion there was no dollarraking.
Apropos this new marriage of Sonja Henie, a correspondent say she must get husbands right off the ice
Wernan driver to friend: "The part I don't like about parking is that noisy crash."
"German's return to West Eu-* rope circle." Vicious?
"You've beca drinking!
Don't
try to evade the question: where
have you bee "dear, what's use? ansher yer queshon, your que shon ansher.
my
You will recall the stir that was caused by his strange story -the story of the little fellow was discovered, so they say, who
the great plains rimming across
with a litheness and! of Syria
grace agility that matched the and
flectness of foot of his friends the gazelles.
That was about three years of the city commit suicide last to a West sector hospital anless he there have been no casurities. ago. He hit the world headlines week. Their enstomers walked Faye his health scheme contrību- This is how the industry came
tions in West Marks, |HILL-GRANT-The Engagement at the estimated age of nine. pos out and went for a twapenny Two hundred yards across the who died recently had a bright into being A Major Bousfield, has been announced of Lead-
sibly 10. Correspondents who tramride into the Soviet sector Lo ing Seaman Geoffrey Hill of turned away from the turbulent have a wash and set. It costs a line in the Soviet sector is the idea after living for some time
The first H.O." shop, HMS TAMAR and Miss political structure of the Middle sixth as much down there.
near haunts favoured by cro- Cecilia Grant of 21, Ashley East to cover his story approa- West sector hairdressers couldn't dy chain store where West sector codiles.
ched it with enthusiasm. Some compete. They decided that life housewives swarm to do their Road, Kowloon.
their He watched people come and said that he was faster than any just wasn't worth living any long shopping. They can sell gazelle; some said that he had er after struggling for four years West marks in the many currency shoot at them, trap them, poison on baited changing booths provided in the them, or catch them arwin.. lived with the herd all his life; to get on their feet
They are not the only
Western sectors.
were This is good hooks. All these processes
too slow for his liking. all agreed that he could not speak, Mar West Berlin shops are feel business at nearly six to one. that he existed on grass and roots
Friction on high levels arises in So he had a large and strong like the animals who were his in the pinch because their cas
tomers are slipping teross the line this quer atmos there of currency seine net made to his own speci- The railways are scation. With this, and a rowing cherished a philosophic apoi, that he was agile in to do their shopping. Its etrists manipulation,
and in colour the deep rich
ly good business for the West Russian-controlled and they try boat containing half-a-dozen proach to the problems of brown of mahogany.
inhabitant He gets paid to grab as many West marks as Africans, he or his son dragged State-a
comment simple
Then came the debunkers. One est marks and his moner is they can off the passengers the crocodiles ashore like boys which we make with a com.of these insisted that when the worth six times as much if he West sector stations.
Gazelle Bor was challenged to crosses the line. Only a feeling are reluctant to pay their workers lifting a net full of tiddlers.
The headquarters of this cur- plete absence of guile. The a race by a small paunchy man of loyalty to their own people pre-in West marks even those who popular idea in the early days who could raise no more than an vents many more doing it.
live and work in the Western sec-lous but profitable industry are on the banks of Lake Rukwa. tors. of the Nationalist Revolution amble at the best of times, the Different Accounts. The reason is that the Com-some 70 miles North of Northern was that action was easy but paunchy small
by knowledge difficult. Then Dr. several lengths, Hu Shih, irritated by the mas- terly inactivity of the Governed to the tale of the much-platz does so because the money in the Western zones of Germany. has to be kept separate to avoid and they don't like to have to buy them at six to ne. So they arguej A tramride.
There, 2,500 feet trouble
above coste 20 pfennigs in the the Western allies will let them level, this large expanse of water,
and keep as many West marks as Western sectors costs 20 přetnines
Another care of high-level frie which has a maximum depth of just the same in the Eastern see- dering across the plains of Siria, tors. Only it is paid in different tion is the Eastern-zone travel between 10 and 15 feet, contains money. If the tram drivers and agency which has refused to pay huge quantities of fish and a A most useful organisation not far from the ancient city of conductors went from one
bil remarkable number of crocodiles telephone its West-sector cur.
The Rukwa crocodiles are ex- which possessed no authority, Damascus. They are
rency to another the tramway au- Reprisals had to be instituted be
was reluctantly reptionally large--males more and yet managed to act with folk these Bedouin, and they thorities would never ne their fore the money
than 16 feet long are produced. consistency and vigour, has failed to discover for a couple of accounts straight
Despite their frequent asser-common-and they constitute a But even this does not prevent! just pronounced its own obse-days that a small boy of the tribe
So each day, and sometimes quies. It is the socalled Liaison had strayed of, and bad disap the passenger who takes a 20 tions that everyone in the Soviet real menace.
peared.
East-pfenni fate on the Eastern zone is having a wonderful time.
puts Officers' Conference, which
side of the link from travelling the Communists are under no ills- twice a day, young Bousfeld
sectors sions. Apart from the high uncut from the share in his rowing came into being soon after the
right across the Westera le cost sumployment in the Western, see boat and, paying out his net, en-
is much easier there. war, met monthly in Singa-
circles a number of crocodiles They searched for him hap him the equivalent of 31⁄2 pfennigstors, life i pore, and tackled the critical hazardly, for your Bedouin Arab by Western money-
Eussian His men pull the free end of the food problems of South East is neither methodical or pery Western meer tram near to Intourist Asia. The delegates came sistent by nature. They failed to line walks inte the Soviet sector Soviet sector which flourished in net to the shore, and the crG- from all the countries of this locate him, and so continued on and pays in almost worthless East the days of the blockade and sold codiles are
large and luscious meals for dol- beach their way to nowhere in parti- marks. British. They were mostly ter Your Bedouin is rarely bound best to attract across the women been reduced to selling its food for administrative officials, and for anywhere in particular.
from, the Western sectors to buy East marks. they had the help and guid- Later some Kurds chanced to their trek to ance of many distinguish-pass that way on ed experts in food distribuis of a very different breed from outlying village. Now the Kurd tion and transportation, who the Bedotin. A harsh climate and were on the staff first of Lord continual fighting have combined Killearn and later of Mr. Mal to make him a more purposeful individual than the aforemention- colm MacDonald.
Thus, when
these ed roamer. travelling Kurdis perceived a lad obviously thin and most wret- this body confronted when itched-running around with a few first met at the end of March, gazelle they paused and investi- 1946. The Japanese occupa gated the matter.
What they found was a small I have never been one of word lost in the thunder of the tion had led to wholesale de boy who lost his speech and his
those persons who regard The Universe does not attor cured by the lakeside they are sertion of farmlands in the mind-through privations, through the wonders of the world as!
its parallel," he later declared. sent to a firm of tanners, who rice-producing countries. And terror, and through utter lone being any the less wondrous He put the height of the Falls and a ready market for the top
grade skins." for the fact that a great at 600 feet. So did L Actually All of which proves that ima before the Japanese capitulat-liness.
many people have seen them they are 167 feet
gination can be worth money. Not everything about the Falls and that no tears are shed when is so impressive. The Cave of
a casual
Haphazard Search
with
The man
50
that the restaurant
in
the
region, Non-British as well as cular. That, too, was in charac The Communists are doing their lars and Swiss francs, has now
It is easy to forget now how desperate was the situation
will of Allah. Then they went on
Reflections
Niagara
On
By Special Correspondent
Falls.
HOT U-
drawn on to the
Here they are instantly and expertly killed by natives using siedge hammers, Later, the great reptiles are skinned on the spot. |
Five At Once
The Government Fisheries 01- £cer, in whose area Lake Rukwa is situated, reported recently, “I have seen as many as five, cro- codiles beached by one haul of the net. They are no match for the skill of those whose job it is to kill them, and at least a hun- dred of the brutes are being got rid of in this way each month.
"When the skins have been
mer
ham-
II
A foodstuff seller fined for having faulty scales said he was SUITY. He saw the error of his weighs..
The Church of England is
Men' just won't take orders
to need hundreds of new clerz.
these days.
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The advantages of having two radio receive a Bref to seek How useful a second set `is when two members of your family weat different programmes; when sornebody is ill Model BX 1950, shami kora (ske in bed; and so on, "There's no dispuring that "Philettices vzcellen roads on the need for having one of the last fi
ed immense damage was done Forthwith they took. him back from to reads, railways, bridges and to Damascus, and there,
before. that day to this, poor little fel- rolling-stock.
low, the boy has rested in an In the consuming centres no asylum. A British Arabist station-
Thus, when first in New York, the Winds, for instance, on the a 16-feet man-eating crocodile I unashamedly ascend the Ern-American side, where one is al gets clubbed by a sledge stocks existed. The Philip ed in Syria tells me that he will pire State Building. When first leged to stand right beneath the pines had descended to a co- never regain his speech, nor re- in Cairo, I belake myself to the torrent. Like a good tourist, I conut civilisation and the cover his sanity.
Pyramids. And so, on finding paid to sample this unique sensa. Only a people of Malaya to a dict of
few months ago the myself within striking distance tion. Bedouin who lost their child
It involved stripping stark of the most celebrated cataract tapioca. Millions were suffer-
passed by Damascus Dace more. ing from malnutrition, and Something must have jogged their my respects to Niagara Falls.
in the world, I have been to pay naked in a small cubicle and don
ning grey shirt and trousers, aį agitators were making the memories, for they made in- The falls occi when the water pair of revoltingly sodden sandals, most of their opportunities. quiries. When they discovered
Bewing from Lake Erie to Lake and oilskins. Thus equipped for The shortages were almost that the boy was in an asylum, Ontario comes to a precipire mid- the great adventure, we descend universal, from the humble mad for all time, they observed way between the two. In case ed on a lift and were then stood hoe to locomotives and ship at this undoubtedly the your geography, is on a par with upon a precarious wooden con-
traption side
labelica "Hurricant and raine, I might add that ping, and the authoritative their way to nowhere in parti- of the river is the United States Deck? slogan "eat less" seemed as cular, for this is the aimless rou and the other is Canada and as Here, in company with other pointless as its accompanying tine of the Bedouin in those parts millions of tourists bring millions sheepish and sodden tourists, injunction of "grow more" of the world
of dollars every year to the cities was soaked to the skin by the Wax a No seemed hopeless,
that have grown up on either side, spray-und that Yet within two years the Commissioner-General's office no small rivalry exists between cave, no winds; just, one imagines, the highest pneumonia rate in the two. work inspired by this loose were men of ability and
The Americans cizim their the world. organisation produced as energy. Miracles of rehabili-Falls to be five feet higher. On Among the curious situations. tonishing results. The Aus- tation were performed in all the other hand seven-eighths of of life in which all have imagin tralian Commissioner for forms of transport with the the water goes over the Cana-ed but few found themselves Malaya, Mr. Claude Massey, willing help of the armed Ser dian Horseshoe Falls and the such as deep sea diving, stand- being referred, at the closing meet- vices. Prodigies of, produc- Americans had to build a spe- ing for Parliament, or
cial weir to ensure a satisfactorily hanged-walking Niagara Falls ing, to the wonderful value of tion were performed even on spectacular How over their side on a tightrope or going over the its work At times, he said, land that had fallen fallow,
For all the kiosks, cafes, bars, top in a barrel take a high place it was difficult to believe that notably in Burma, which has postcard vendors, souvenir shops they had no power; but that been for so long in a state of and other trappings of the tourist was probably why they had serious disruption and unrest trade, the Falls, as seen from the been so valuable. That is a Countries at the consuming Canadian side of the gorge, are rather heretical remark from end, which had a little more As I leant over the rail, a truly staggering spectacle. a high Government official than immediate needs ining to adjust my mind to the But it is a fallacy, albeit a stock, helped out others upon immensity of the scene, I won- popular one, that bureaucrats which an emergency had sud-dered what must have been are not human. They are at denly descended. their best without the files and when a job has to be done which simply won't wait for this tidy but tedious process.
The delegates flew in from all quarters of South East
its socket and Asia, talked together for a day or two, sought and gave ad- object-lesson. We hope it At last, parting the hemlos is still in the harness of the barrel. vice and concrete aid on all won't wholly be lost on the bushes on the edge of the chain rubber ball and a dog shot over, man went over safely in 4 their troubles, and then went regional bodies of the United he looked out upon Niagara. unaided, arid paddled ashore a back and acted, There was Nations, such as ECAFEFalls Upon His. Knees the bottom. Captain Webb, hav always the will to co-operate, which hitherto has produced He fell upon his knees, Taking conquered the channel, was and the will to help. The ex- a maximum of paper and aling a small altar from his back, swept almost instantly to death perts on the staff of the minimum of result.
he recited the Te Deum; his trying to swim the rapids bens
the
first
First Over Top
First over the top, believe i
or not, was buxom 12 stone
school-mistress, Mrs. Anna Taylor. In little more than a glorified
whisky kez she went over in
1901 and survived.
Ten years later a little Tonava reaction of the man whe Cockney called Bobby Leach did His reward, was, a smashed came upon them There was, in fact, complete
was jaw, two broken kneecaps, 23 The man in question was 箱 and whole-hearted co-opera- tall Franciscan Friar, Father weeks in hospital and the dise tion all round. In its methods Louis Hennepin. It was just be fortune later in New Zealand to slip on a piece of orange peel and in its results the Liaison fore Christmas in 1678. For
and kill himself.
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