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| A NEW DEDICATION
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1950.
y_most exciting assignment. --No. 2:
WHEN LANCES DEALT DEATH
"Find out just what is happening In Chile." The terms of reference may seem vague now, but at that time it was obvious that a revolu- tion of sorts was- brewing, simmering or already explod- ing, in the 2800 miles (aver-] age width only 110 miles) of one of the most delightful countries on the earth.
:
By Francis Boyle
defying) nalist's sine qua non,
de
in my hands, I pounded on with dry mouth and sorely palpita- ting heart. I was no revolution- ury, I was no Chilean. I had done no wrong... dr hud 17
Here they came. I cannot say felt the physical presence of that lance or that. I felt the "hot broath" of the charger down my
Which
neck
It Was
not until, advice, one went along to the being Interpreted in modern par two-mille - thoroughfare then lance, means that if you haven't known
Avenida AB the
las got it, you've had it. Delicias (Avenue of Delights) The it happened. that one found how far from de-
Went mad Of the lightful things were.
the
They said afterwards that it Avenue, the Moneda (Presiden- Val Palace) wat guarded by com
was somebody on the roof of the lines of troops and dirty- nearby Union Club who cast the looking machine-guns. Sporadic first stone. Others followed. The
took aring one further up to stones were revolver bullets and wards the hill of Santa wurd
several policemen lay dead DF near the University.
dying on the ground, Hitherto That was the source of the reasonably patient, the trouble. One might have known:
bineros went mad. Always is. All South American
Lucia
pr
One by one, South American Republics had revolted. It was the recognised thing. But Chile- for some four years she had been under the Iron heel of one of the | earlier dictatorships. How, or where, could she find the power to assert herself and get rid of the tyrants-it tyrants they were? For there was no denying that this
dictatorshilp samo
hid brought innumerable benefits to the country.
It was, for a change, a law revolutionaries, at least in those ends. They fired straight into abiding country. Its finances, on the surface, were found. I Incomparably wealthy nitrate flelds had been acquired by the State,
Anyway, one knew the coun- try well. And a chance of getting away from the sticky heat and artificiality of Buenos Aires in the Argentine was too good to be missed,
days, first suborn or incite the University students. mind so much dying when you are young, and it is great fun to contest with Discipline.
cara.
They did not are over our
I
the compact mass of hundreds of You don't gupers. How many fall I do not know, for, thoroughly willing, 1 was carried forward by the badly, frightened multitude ducked after the first volley
But peded for the nearest side-i was fired over our heads.
There was another volley since nobody took much notice, and a man a yard behind me fell moved up the stream, and soon And then, as we reached the found myself beyond the Univer-side-street of San Antonie (not Finally, orders, were orders,
watching a battle royal pro- for from the refuge of the British There was no
pressing, air passenger
had barri- Club) Students
the terrifying thing hap- caded themselves within the pre-pened service across the mighty chain of the Andes in those days. But
cincts and were hurling every- With a clatter of hoofs the
carabineros, there was nothing uncomfortable thing they could and down on the mounted
lances about the Trans-Andine
the rollway.
The American people will celebrate their Independence Day this year in much the same forms as have become traditional, both at home and abroad. But the celebrations will have a background of grim purpose. Council called for the res-❘ miles ACTOSA the
illimitable toration of peace and a cease- Argenting pampas before ever fire in Korea. The Govern- you change to the Trans-Andine
Tollway.
the Then you climb and ment of the United States climb, and descend and descend, responded with a swiftness until you reach the Incomparable in action that was in marked loveliness of Santiago, Chile's contrast with all previous capital, encircled by the snow- experience of the United Na- beyond description at sunset, tions and Its predecessor. The lend it has takery in respon- ding to the call has been supported with singular un- animity by practically the whole of the free world.
The Security in fact, you bowl for countlessering carabineros (allitarised gleaming well in front of
capped Cordillera and beautiful
Source of trouble
30
One expected trouble on Arst
the sequence arrival, for trouble in South America was nothing new. At various times there had been that affair of the Chace War between Bolivin and Paraguay and that curious Force had bombed units of iis occasion when the Chilean Air own Ficet.
quiet, but one
Was
the efficient
The latter were aring heads of their mounts, came after over the roof of the building- us at the charge. but not too high over the
roof. From time to time they warned crowd amongst which I stood that if they did not break
they would be fired up The crowd made rude noises. Clutching my British passport. I made a polite one,
Into doorways darted some of the crowd, to be winkled out by those wicked lances. Into side streets went the rest. And Into the upon.
One Wis young then. No
braver, but more curious - an attribute which, though it may cause a shocking mortality rate among felines, is yet the jour-
Calle San Antonio went I and ar score of others, at the double. We were but a few yards down the street when the sound of hoots proved that several of the lancers had wheeled in after us, Putting my faith in God, the British Club some. Afty. yards ahead and the British passport
THE DAY BEGAN
The
State Department has politely rejected Chlang Kai-shek's offer, to sond seasoned troops to Kores.
Just like I told ya, bud.' If we
guita surrender any time, we It was near enough how don't need no help from experts.. over. How near. I realised when the man alongside tripped. and then squealed horribly. The
2
.
Report states that the Irish
horse chocked, some sort of phy-police are engaging in a brief Kical
operation was performed so campaign to colleen up seaside near behind me, and, terrified resorts. They are determined to doorway. beyond bellef, I darted into
expose girls who expose girls.. bling, my passport hold out.
There I stood trem-. hoped the lancer would pass me by or, pausing, would realise my nationality.
Open door
"Independence Day: fare
announced."
Judging by the invitation cards, cocktails go on continuously from before noon to late at night. Faço enough.
new Regarding this
cut in British newsprint, Myrtle, asks how you can have severi-page
Well, you see, dear, they Just
At first I did not know whence eate the volco. But then, just as those hateful hoofs started up again, I realised that the door papers. behind me had been opened a fraction and an agitated Chileno leave one page blank. was bidding me enter. I entered -and collapsed on the floor,
They would not let me leave the house that night. I helped to dress the wounds (one, a lance wound) of the revolutionaries who had bought asylum in that house, and wondered what good my passport would do me if the house were ralded.
It was not raided. The morn- Ing. brought news that the Preal- dent had fed to the Argentine frontier by car. The population went mad. The tyrant was gone. Down with all tyrants! And, In- cidentally, to hell with Peru.
What was it all about? Quien Sabe? It was revolution, that was all, and there will be another one tomorrow,
asked Just what they fought each other for, some leat Don Casper proudly told this little Wilhelmine: was a famous viciary."
In America they're advertising un-gaits made of chinchilla, for sraamentation, not fut warmth.
*Taking 10 wickets in an innings for the second time in a mouth, his shop Popper must he regard- ed as hot stuff.
It
or
To this day, mechanised otherwise, I am scared stiff of lancers.
THAT NEWS TO TALK
when people are
oft.
"Quenille's government may only be temporary."
Nonsense,
French governmenta Invariably | last for at least a week.
"Are the wrong girls playing tennis?"
"No, I wouldn't say they were playing tennis.
.
According to "Pravda," Stalln will never stand for Mr. Truman. On the other hand, ho might possibly be willing to alt for Mr. Churchill.
Just to emphasize the holy nature of the war against North Korea, the two American generals appointed, are called Dean and Church.
*
"Stork brings bables to Dutch vessel.".
Facilities should be provided for local sub-editors'ta Toorn, the facts of life.
mouth
"Yes," said Myrtle's mother first talkie newsreels were guard
It is 21 years since the happen
"Nows-reels today have to be after a party. "The gossip was shown in Britain, for the first considered too gruesome.
faster and Uveller," he says. "At wonderful But it got so late T A number of war pictures were dret cinema-goers would listen to could hardly keep my
(Dur- a politician or public man speak- open." British news-reel in sounding the war people became inured ing for as long as four or
Avo was of the 1929 Derby--the to ghastly sights, but now we minutes. Now two minutes is thic year Trigo won at 33 to 1. have got back to pre-war sensi- Kimitr
Problem facing all the news- tone News, a company that has battling for public faveur,
It was made by British Movie- tivity.)
Early in the 30's the news-reels, reel.companies and the Alm in.. had dustry today is the challenge of
which
runs its
Own
cider) and cold been first in news-rcels ever since.] their own private "war," and the}-real; but Mr. Sanger saya
The American people have put their hands to the plough in a great enterprise in sup. port of one of the basic prin- ciples to which all nations have subscribed. It is neces-
Santiago, however, scemed advised to sary to hold fast to the issue stay indoors. Nobody did, of of principle on which all course, and there were numerous action has been based. This identity checks by was clearly expressed by the carabineros, In the British Club, Secretary of State, Mr. Dean one shrugged shoulders and had Acheson, in his address to
another drink. Some bars on the main thoroughfares were closed. the American
Newspaper The remainder did a roaring trade Guild. The President, he in Chica (grape said,
had enunciated the dc mone ("monkey's tail") while policy of the Government to
patrons, with an
an eye on the uphold the sanctity of the door, sald that the day of tyranny was passing and, incidentally, to Charter and the rule of law hell with Peru. among the nations. The size added that in Chile, before the and speed of the attack, he Tacan-Arica
with sald, made it evident that it Was a premeditated action. He recalled that the United States recognised the new Government in South Korea in January last year, and that many other members of the United Nations had done the same. After reviewing the background of recent history
settlement
their Northern neighbour.
gistered under the super- vision of the United Nations Commission.
It is this fundamental spirit of the Communist Parties, wherever they are, that is so menacing to all the hopes of world peace. They re
the
By John Hall
there is plenty of evidence that the public still wants independent news-reels; that it would revolt against any attempt to have fews- reels vested in
monopoly-the B.B.C
"mike
Cinema addicts had already ab- sorbed studio-made talkios and had grown accustomed to "silent" news-reels; but here was the real thing-the Derby, just as if you were there on Epsom Downs, bookies shouting
the odds, swiit clip of galloping horses, the publie laughed as companies, havIn the early days of sound- roar of the crowds. (People ing bought exclusive news-reel reals most people *got the Derby now; they still do.) said: "No one will bother to go to rights for big events, struggled to fright. Today, according to B.M.N. "Ace" -cameraman .Paul It was a sensation, a scoop for prevent rivals from "piraling."
Yyand, you can push a "mike" in the lusty newcomer, British Cup final war front of a schoolboy and he'll talk Movielone News, that set people talking. All over the country it was on show only four days after the race,
New standards Within a few years,those same
British Movietone News tell against themselves the story of a
and talk and talk,
*
Their trials.
against which the aggression gard all other groups and cinema-goers were taking it for duced hidden cameras: they were ting in a hugging the scent
had taken place, he went on:
"The great single fact which
out from
stamist of this summa
parties, who refuse to look upon them as the last dis pensation of political and
granted that they could pay their shillings and see and hear net only the Derby but altar kinds
Cup Final when they had to buy Bane of the now-reel camera- tickets in a roundabout way and man is what he calls a "leris smuggle their cameramen into the louse. They come in male and ground.
female specles, bublicity-hunters The moment their men pro who never miss a chance of get- swooped on by agents of the camera and
of news-reol nightful" company. The tickets as long as th
as long as they can..
Then there are the "anglers" of events, scoops' too, within a That "war" onded on an again the stars," who have four hours.
hysterical note when "piralca learned at which angle they British Movietone News set a strove to beat a barrage of bal photograph best and always try
high exclusives in these, elency, and loons round a Test match ground to present, that angle to the camera
those early days.
hiring the upper, rocins of
short
---people -~ --who- perform Today, as it celebrates its 21st house.
miracles Hot to get alongside birthday,
** 7,000,000 cinema- The "pirates" were, seen
someone tall. ... goers look forward each week to spotlights were rushed In and and its bi-weekly news-reels, it can trained on their camera lenses
look back on, an imposing record: Quickly the "pirates'
people ruled by a sovereign historical wisdom, as enemies Independent government
to be fought and overwhelm- their own choosing, brought into being by the United Nations ed. Even in China, where and recognised by the great Communism has not wholly majority of the free nations of{ overridden the traditional the world, was attacked in a characteristics of the Chinese cynical and brutal act of aggres- sion. We are confronted with people, compromise
sound.
and
a direct challenge to the United toleration are still limited to Nations. Whether this organi fellow-travellers. It is 1920-The Arst Derby with mirrore sation, which embodies our line of demarcation that
rrors to reflect the hopes for an International or-
players. der based on peace with justice derives from arbitrary doc1932-That critical Cup final and doing so boggled the
goal. in a B.M.N. news-red? After that there was and freedom, can survive this trine no less than from the test. will depend upon the habit of practice.
sequence, which showed that the ball had been out of play" Just vigour with which it answers The basic test the challenge, and the support
in the before the goal was scored.
1934-Hitler, struiting...
...at which it receives from the free Korean issue was willingness
foundation stone-laying
ceremony: rot
nations."
peace Red-faced reminiscence from B.M.N.: That reminisces, from Chelsea Arts Ball three years ago when, by accident, a young lady wearing but her New Year's reXD=:
to accept free elections. It 18 nonplussed. as his ceremonial,thing bus news-ret
It is salutary to look back not peculiar to this question hammer: flew into pieces. The lutions. on the repeated efforts by the alone. It is one of the major Notis tried to have that news- The United Nations Commission dividing lines between, the real
19377ed-and failed.
rmulati Nowe eight minutes of
Was compiled
and con to bring about peace and two great camps. One he
wonderful colour densed from about two hours of unity in Korea. In those ef-lieves in rule and authority scopped the pool by hiring all the cameramen, others by Movietone
aim of
the Coronation. (B.M.N. reels, some taken by BMN's own forts it received no aid what-imposed, from above, the Technicolor cameras in this coun- news-reel men, who, ure stationed soever from the Government other in consent from below try)
all over the world. Mort 1944. The
popular of North Korea, but. a com- through electoral processen.
final
Casino.
the Royal Family, who appear, on 1949 First pictures
| news-reels, The
News Kinz takes news-reel-cameras have) The
a close fiterent "caught" many Incidents and in news fims, frequently "directs" secus that have been cut in the when the news-reel men' take in and Mrs. Grundy. interests of good taste, diplomacy, formal pictures of his
family By arrangement, one camera- man: "covers”· royal' éventa ;" and his dims are distributed to all the companies. Includes DMNS
plete and absolute rebuft. No | Nowhere are these perfect sault on Monte er-shattering, es- . news-reel “shoja try those ot
Amethyst from the Yangter,
of the average, in two out or three
was
member of the Commission but they do almost invariably ever permitted to set express the will of the pbo- foot on North, Korean soil.. ple. Events in Korea have The Communist regime moved from a determined would have nothing to do and sustained effort to im with it, nor with the principle pose the political will of the of compromise or concilla Communists on the people of
Unhappy phrase tlon. It sought the unification South Korea to an attempt statesman who began an Inter- There was, for instance, the of Korea, but on its own to impose that will by mili-view: "1 am quite conscious....."
The cameraman miged to take pictures.last year of its Duke terms and its terms alone. tary, forcé.
then paused;
of Edinburgli, Princess Elizabeth, Those terms right up to tho The two, issues are almost The off-stage, tetchy remaric by and little Prince Charles Barrived end; were surrender. Quite universal and while that a wine and public occasions at Windiesham to: her cronted by possibly it would not have gives the immediate pro
ne job for man”? ^ the Duke with the news think, A Torby at borne the sole blame if it had blem, and the United No reel cameramen, entrusted their wait and they'd have to
at" which the how was asleep
have! agreed to negotiate through tions action thereon, a world- beta to a colleague, who lost aight
time
the Chuke hat the United Nations Commis wide significance, there is yet noon the colleague saw his bookis his private cricket practile hel of the bookie. Tokat in the after the cameraman bowl, to him wi sion, for the leaders of the hope that the settlement can in one corner at the pictures he that went on South Korean devorament be localized. Even that wall had arrauidly dominting the baby, woke
hour before were also very difficult men, take time, and the longer she stands and cessparing. There mayburt Punged, saya 30. headstrong and... obstinate, takes the more fifiqult it will are thought to be
the only real- But at least the South Korean be. But there will be no Life
of a "pralaber
editor of British Movietone News *Beter of earthen bilder, and, for all, but "a few months of As
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