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"It's the beastly Socialist next door-left his car engine runn.ag er spa 1

Mr. Eden's TV election speech.

Have you ever been scared by a firefly?

PENANG.

7HAT are you going to do this Saturday night? I'll bet it's nothing like the way I spent my last Saturday here.

No. 1 Platon of "A" Company of the Royal West Kents set on smlash by a river crossing at Trolak, and reporter Wicksteed went ahing to represent the Press.

Nobody got hur..

SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE JUNGLE but it was an

with Bernard Wicksteed

teresting

in-

profes-

sional experience,

for though the may

pen

011

be miglaties than the swora muxt

ecrosion. it feels an madeguate weapon of

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defect

he you are lying

your

twent

under a bust

the Juple be nje

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button track Al

might.

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nounced Brela. The

k is cilen!.

night-time

only

1!

but Al

at's the

about

is

18

that

the place that *The

jungle

seems so imp dead in the heat of ine day comes to life million noises at night,

At home You can

HALT for Bangs, Ungat, Wicksteed with ព where fallen tree, had

mode matulat though precatious

usually badges.

Qui information was that the reckon that any noisy at night has a natural and harmless ex- tal barhtry were using these jour- pinnation, but in the Matayan Prong ports on thrur"

ligets, nees nd cut of the jungle Jungle there really are

with for food supplies. there really are snakes dendly bites, and above ali there really are men prowling

kili tropies. desire 10 round with

you.

box m fios ambush there was obile and from the middle it a bad-mannered frog kept cemaking derisive remarks,

Then there was a beastly birt th:1 in the tree alove me periacally called "Peep."

even Say

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1951.

SEFTON DELMER

flies out to "the grabbed

kingdom' to report on-

Farouk's Clumsiest

D

KHARTOUM.

OWN in Bazaar-

the

street, where artisans crouch

cross-legged on the

pavement in front of their

Coup

stalls, hammering away at section

of

the Sudanese the

Besnim.cally.

Egyp'icas

hove dra nothing for the de- vpm of h Sudan from the d, pozitace leken denat which it was 50 years ago into the up-red-iming on tan, grein, and ca le ages which it la today.

this and that. I found them leaders. That is that

No Egyplan mency 36 Rene he save.cpmier! of Sudat all agog over a wonderful movement for the total In-

gricul ure, irriga ion, mining c dependence pf the Sudan Dawe ry. The Gazte com piece of news.

has had its strongest proc plan&ion phone tagonists in the followers of red by Bath inveros and the Mahdi, the nationalist the Sudan Gertamen. religious leader whose The Egyptians have done their father killed General Gor- be: to limbi sexpansion, for

quire large share of the Nie's terling wa : 5.

The man who cures snake skins was just passing it on to his friend the silver- smith.

"Two special trains

were

he boo

brought in," he said. don at Khartoum 66 years at the Suden would re-

now.

sid- ago. you are

The

cf Mahdi

Koday

VITY

"They are in the ings

And do know who these trains for? They are for our Egyptian garrison troops. They want to leave us and go home to their king."

He rolled his eyes and furned down the corners of his mouth in a great moc- kery of sorrow. "Oh the pity of it!" he wailed. And then roared with laughter.

of Sunartie Stane.

and powerful Ye the Consution which From h.s silver-domed the Egyptian Parliament sought palace in Omdurman be directs to impose on the Sudan, control

religious and piisai network the which

CVETA whele of Magicm Sudan.

It's followers

make him W-37! Kiz cf the Sudan when macpendence comes.

So did the silversmith and Afraid..

very one around.

the

THE orthodox On the terrace of

Mestoms under Grand Hotel, where 1 met h.s vel Mirghani members of Britain's Sudan

Ire :D afraid of what might happen

them

The Mahd! bezorts

administration. the

scene

was not so different.

They were churkling ove poris that King Farouk

to replace Governor. Sir obert Howe, with an Egyptian governor.

mans

rifish

Impertinence

WELL, however much

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Ba the Sufworse, 'ne, hove

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By his impertinence in nahing in the his cry, chow I remain, I can weli imagine

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eclaring himself king "Peez step" which any mal bird their country and announ- of the Sudan to encourage mond | have done 11 just said

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Farouk has estranged even ways entire duration Thunghat the

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Then there were the YOU SAW.

among

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adanese leaders.

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Egyp: did mo.hing for the do- Nothing he cup do now, fence f the Sudan during he either the setting up of a ant wer, when the Hallens a’- The Tiefies were the

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stooge Govern- tacked the Sudze from E... texing As out 21

I was

ment in Cairo nor the and Abyssinia. nk they came out in dozens,

unching of paid demon- You could swear there

The Sudanre have rave: for- strations against the British polten the behaviour of the the Sudan, can wipe out Egyptian troops during an 1.st . the effect of this. The British

д wns

hute party of Bandits with The coming down the track wn the other side of the viver.

Then you realised they were

3 distance

n lights &!

.eביות !!

bui

The jungle is also full 01 retion wood that is Jumincus

may leave

aad ca Khan.cum.

The Egyptian garriren not ex

C

fiveftes only a few inches from the Egyptian flag flying feed ake par da 115

ever public buildings beside tence, but when the Sudanese re- the Union Jack until the quested the lan of wo inaco... Kew self-government Con- Bus 5 that hey could he ha

at the raiders, they refused. stitution is completed; but whatever chance the Egypt- ians had of persuading the have the effron ery

that Sudanese defence shall be Sudanese into some form of under exclusively Egyptian eon- union with them has now trol. been thrown away by

the dark, and there were half a dozen patches of this within sight of the Press bush, winking like the embers of

hostly" fire.

No coughs

the

clumsy chauvinist effrontery of the Egyptian Govern-

There is no twilight in

the AVERY now und again thr We got into position clogs in

A kampong (or ment. at 8.15 in broad daylight.

village) near by would bark This madly, and you'd think: So in the course of lying for "it was as black as

sit, boys, the bandits six hours in the dark, reporte night, Wicksteed xpruchee some of

coming. You'd get all keyed

Under

another

bus,

AI

mid-

Ave

those feelings he has jeered at yards away in the darkness on in others an acmission no one will be more delighted to read my left, was Ted Bailey, from

of than his wife.

Ungat,

are

The Mahdi

"Peep" again, and up till that horrible bird called NOW that I have been ir

romehow

you felt that things were nor- mal.

the Sudan for some West Ham, who was a carpen-

days and had a look-and- ter in a furniture factory

You have no idea, how hard listen around the place, I Beyond aim was Don Bangs, head-hunting "that cheerful our

Cemden Town it is not to cough when it's the find it increasingly difficult

world you Borneo tracker, probably knew

one thing in the barrow boy.

to understand how Nahas how the explanations of every one of

are not allowed to do,

move

Pasha and his master could Luose million jungle sounds, but

my impossible it is not to the National Service boys,

Frank your limbs when movement is have imagined they would whom there were ten in

a miliary offence. Bucknell, Military Medal, who

uf

As solid as a rock ou right

Sergeant

wus

different parts of our ambush, has campaigned knew us tile of their cause us

1.

Yet they accepted them with

the stpild outward calm of the trained soldier.

No twilight

theatres of war.

dozen

You are not allowed to cough over.

said

get away with their Sudan coup.

So it was a blessed relief

(I'll grant that the be- You are not allowed to talk when Sergeant Bucknell

"Ps!" and the ambush was haviour of the British when you are on an ambush.

Government

Persia may have encouraged illu- sions concerning the Suez Canal).

or clear your throat because Back in the camp there

than *q

no sound travels better

were lights and hot tea, but if that. You are not allowed move if your joints creak, and, you imagine the talk was about

the

operations night's

you above all, you are not allowed don't know your National Ser- three points along the to smoke, bank of a narrow, muddy A few yards from the river we took up our positions buch that served og

NANCY

Roundabout

AH--HERE'S A ROAD AT LAST

HIKED TOO FAR...

I'M LOST

vice mon.

WIL Press

-(London Express Servico.)

I'VE BEEN WALKING FOR AN HOUR--- I HOPE THIS LEADS HOME

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