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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
..
button track Al
might.
Tlak 1ཝཱ
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
however little may
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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
fu.ft of meter, tradation or circumstances I
1
eclaring himself king "Peez step" which any mal bird their country and announ- of the Sudan to encourage mond | have done 11 just said
ng a Constitution without Egyo len prettions. 'he one wer "peep ORCY
1st consulting them, King in mitery .. Egyp. has Plant
five CVLV
minute
Farouk has estranged even ways entire duration Thunghat the
hambeth. I could let it.
Then there were the YOU SAW.
among
have
S friends
adanese leaders.
things
the Sudan,
beta
infe.
20
the by one Sadancio leyft. ja ma
"You' sce," he chuckled, he
WEL Sudan
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--(London Express Service.)
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
indanise 10051
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
over
One factor only has been responsible for the pro- Egyptian leaning among a
By Ernie Bushmiller
Yet today Nahas and Farcuk .o demand
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