What do you know
about FISH?
་་་
Did you know that a
'NORFOLK CAPON"
is NOT a capon at all
NO!
I didn't
IT'S A HERRING!
but I DO KNOW that for the
finest, tastiest FISH
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1952.
Seven Loose Ends
In Anti-Spy System
A:
LONDON. DOCUMENT filed
at the
Home Office recorded the fact that Fuchs
fanatical Communist.
SAW
0
was
H
But
as there W28
proper clearing-house where all the picces of the security jig-
be could
fitted to- gether, the men responsible for putting Fuchs on atom- bomb work never knew that he was. pro-Russian.
It was just that lack of U.S. co-ordination in the
which security system
enabled the Inpanese to cripple the American Fleet
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Mr Churchill's decision that every scientist working en secret weapons must be screened again suggests that he is not satisfied with the existing methods of combing out Com The defect in Britain's munist agents. security system which allowed Klaus Fuchs to become the most damaging spy in history does not seem to have been eliminated. A similar weakness in the US. security system enabled the Japanese to cripple the American Fleet at Pearl Harbour. To prevent an atomic Pearl Harbour the Americans have taken resolute steps to eliminate this defect. Chapman Pincher, who was given special facilities to study the new U.S. system in Washington, ex- plains exactly what the Americans have done.
By Chapman Pincher-
is security information small and understaffed Joint Intelligence Bureau.
1
Washington had received Intelligence reports which,
together, if taken
would clear have added up to a warning that the Japs were planning to attack the
Fleet in its To American
prevent AD atomic But, Pearl Harbour, U.S. defence Hawaiian anchorage. as in the case of the Fuchs chiefs have abandoned this documents. these reports chancy system and have were pigeon-holed because
set up a streamlined organi there was no central thority to collate them and Bation to which all Intelli
gence is automatically fun. ao assess their meaning.
nelled.
Overlapping
BRITISH Intelligence
run
Яu-
گرفته
Source No. 4 is the F.B.I.'s G-men, who combine the duties. Scotland Yard's Special M.1.3's those of Branch and agents.
and informed gossip.
"Services of Common cwn" is the cover name source No. 6-the Secret
vice.
Witch Doctors Will Be Royal Neighbours
P
By Dudley Hawkins
shooting
a
Mount
RINCESS ELIZABETH During the visit of the Dulce No is the State Depart-
of Gloucester · 19 and Duchess whose
and her husband will ment's foreign service
months
ago, politically-minded members send back informa-
soon be having for Kikuyu tried to boycott the Royal tion obtained from "open" their neighbours the witch Visit, and secret plots ended in Kikuyuland. y councillor, who read all
affrays in which of sources military displays, doctors technical journals, newspapers, For when they move into address of welcome, was shot.
Sagana Lodge -wedding But on the slopes of Con-gift of the people of Kenya Kenya the Royal couple will be for to the Royal couple-high living in an area where the taint of town life has not marred the Ser- on the slopes of Mount simple
mple peasant simplicity of the Kenya, they will be in the tribesmen.
The heart of the land of the
Royal couple will see the
finery-rows and rows of red, of the witch doctor is still white and blue beads, the black feared more than death. and white skins of the colubus
And at night as
tossing ostrich they monkey plumes. listen to the wind in the and the hideous
The Princess will also see cacophany of the prowling women of the tribe trudging to byena, there is little doubt markets with huge loads on their that in the forests above backs, loads so heavy, and so carried that the strap them a witch doctor will be often
supporting the load and strained casting spells on some un on the forehead has cut deep fortunate member of one of grooves, not only into the flesh. the clans of this vast tribe
A friend of mine, a mis- who has worked sionary
lived
umong aml
years, clearing Wakikuyu for
Clearing House Wakikuyu, where the word Kikuyu in their ngoma (danes)
QPIES working directly under Bertie" Smith operate abroad. Others monitor foreign broadcasts, rying to decipher trees, messages sent in code.
No 7 is the Atomic Energy This task was no doubt
Commission, which operates made easy for him by the
cloak-and-dagger service to fact that the man in charge uncover atom secrets of foreign of the Prime countries and prevent leakages of it is one Minister's closest wartime of its own. friends.
A i these
evaluate agencies
they the information
obtain, He is 56-year-old Gen. hrs, instead of fling their as- Bedelsessments away, they pass them eral Walter
Smith's ("Beetle") Smith, former to "Beetle"
General Chief of Staff to Eisenhower
There the reports are studied and once
in by а serles of brains-trust America's Ambassador
groups of highly paid technical Moscow.
experts.
chose
In the light of the recent
Truman President that announcement
the Government is dissatisfied "Beetle" Smith for the £5,000-
because he is with the methods So far a-year Job
expert. defence proveu military
first-hand knowledge that
to
screen
still
by
seven used separate and overlapping scientists it is likely
information haphazardly.
The only department con- while be cerned with co-ordinating tun.
the
house
оп
Aud
women are
but into the frontal bone.
For the Kikuyu boasts of burden, and the heart of the Princess will bleed for the them
Some
the of told enlightened members of the tribe
pame
more
me the other day: "The are trying to stop this practice of making the women and young Kikuyu is not a bad chap. baby girls of five or six years of He has got а bad because he has not got the glamour of the Masai, who custom. live on the plains below,
age
carry loads in this manner. "But." they say,
"it is our
It is not man's work Who is there to carry things. One group by evaluate the
but his new material
wife and daughter to [rum & purely
They get the point of view to and because the tribe, more carry for him? military B
come firewood and the water. They gauge how many atom bombs than any other, has
stockpiled, into closer contact with the take the produce of his shamba
(garden) to market." white man.
IS
has
cf
the
the Russians have fr instance
"They love
they love
Although my own servants are secret
Kikuyus, and very good too, it is argu- difficult to and anyone with a
ment and they love money. kind word for this tribe, exclud-
Another may assess the effect agencies which exchange Mr Churchill has studied Russians, and is a go-getter.
After confidential talks at his of America's new tactical atom | societies, new American system
on the Red Army's was in Washing headquarters near the Potomac bombs
River, where his hand-picked batt efteld manoeuvres, and staff is housed in six heavily on
1 am con- guarded buildings, vinced that "Beet,e" Sinith has forged a highly efficient instru- ment of Intelligence.
IDEAS INTO ACTION... It's Templer's talent
by SEFTON DELMER
Lord
AM not surprised that the Gestapo but how to get the coal mines working. the trairs Field Marshal
and tile- rmning, the posts Alexander has recommend- graphs reorganised, and the hur- ed General Sir Gerald Tem- vest in. pler for the strong-man job in Malaya.
I have some authority there-
fore in telling the bandits-and the men who will serve under Tompler at Kuala Lumpur and Nor for that matter that Singapore what they have to Churchill took one look at look out for. Templer and gave it him.
Templer, 63, is a
shim man
For I have seen Templer at of vast energy, shrewdness, en- work myself and I have thusiasm, and no nonsense.
seen Malaya.
I, too, am convinced that
of
if anyone can take care this guerilla situation out there Gerry Templer is the
man.
I have seen only one other man
as quick in sizing up a scheme-- too quick say his critics-play- ing it for all he is worth if he believes in 11,
Playing is the word. Templer when I saw him seemed almost too boyish in the enthusiasm and adventurous sense of fun with which he first fought his schemes through the Heartbreak House of Whitehall, then followed them into the field.
Alexander picked him be cause Templer was his most brilliant and most trusted trouble shooter during the Italian campaign. The He came in for criticism on world would have heard far this score from some of the more more of Templer before dour and pedestrian performers. this had it not been that boyishness should be an fairly early in that cam- in the languorous, de-energising paign his car was driven heat of Malaya. into the back of a German
lorry. A looted Italian piano
pler's back.
But this enthusiasm and
'Our first'
Asset
This is how
U.S. gleans
it works: The 119 intelligence
from seven main sources.
Top Seven
I.
I hope the Royal car does not get stuck in a muddy patch and the Kikuyu hold them to a ransom before they help them cut."
ing
missionaries who work among them.
They are troublesome. There is no doubt about that,
"They are behind a lot of the unrest in the present political Colony," a labour officer told me. CONCLUSIONS of these brains
"They have a secret society, trusts are sent to "Beetle"
The Wakikuyu are Bantus and, the Mau Mau, which aims at the Smith, who
goes over them
of European although they liked to think of complete removal with the Top Seven--a super
themselves as warriors before methods and influence. We have Uniformed men of naval, brains trust made up of the
the first British ploneers hacked sent at least 200 members of the military and air Intelligence heads of the seven agencies.
their way across Kenya half a sect to prison--but still they hold make up the first three. They
ago, today they are meetings in forest fastnesses. collect and
about sift facts
When they are satisfied with century
farmers and taxi-drivers, Un- foreign weapons, unit disposi- their final report it is passed to
the President Truman's Security fortunately they make up tions and manoeuvres.
the
criminal Nairobi's Cabinet, where it helps
balk Administration align the na-population of bag-snatchers and
armed bandits. tion's day-to-day policy.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
İBRITISH GOUZKİL
ISPAZLJA BRANKI
"There's no budging him, Sir says he regards himself as the Carlsen of culture."
as
If the C ernment needs a "crisis estimate"-say ап sessment of the outcome Egypt's treaty tear-up--"Beetle" Smith claims that his organisa- tion can give an answer em bodying all the known within a few hours.
facts
And because of his standing can ensure that full notice is taken of it.
We
of
Their
hereditary enemies were
*
"In vile ceremonics they swear oaths
that they are sure will mean death if broken"
the Masai, roaming the hot plains The oaths invoke the number of death... the Rift Valley, of
and who seven-the number tried often successfully to and everything is done seven occupy the
rich grasslands of times-seven sins of blood, seven the territory of the Wakikuyu bites at the heart of a freshly
killed sheep. for their cattle.
But the coming of the white This movement is only a sign man put a stop to the bloody of their transition from a native
in which the
Westernised sheer society to a more battles
of the Masal often existence and is, unfortunately, bravery proved too much for the wiles believed to be inspired by men and poisoned
of the who think they would prefer the Hammer and Sickle to the Union
arrows
There is nobedy of compar | Wakikuyu. able influence in the British And the Wakikuyu--or many Jack.
that them decided
the But at Sagana Lodge the Royal Intelligence set-up. And there of cannot be until some full-scale Wazungu
could visitors will be far removed fron (Europeans) central authority responsible offer them a better life.
these trouble-makers, who prefer for all Intelligence is establish- They act as houseboys, office the back streets of Nairobi, and ed
clerks, motor mechanics. They the fastnesses of the forests, to drive the crowded, dilapidated the farmlands of Nyeri. buses that career madly along And if they do hear the drums mountain roads. They grow beating at night it will be in potatoes and vegetables very well praise of the fairness of the indeed for the 10,000 Europeans daughter of Kingi Georgi and ex- in Nairobi-and they also talk tolling the virtues and prowess
of her tail Bwana (húsband.). politics.
of
Until that happens there will be dangerous doubling duties, with nobody really responsible
like for failures the Fuchs case.
--(Landon Express Service)
When it comes to high-level trouble-
TWO
OUR JET MEN
TWO little wooden boxes, containing simple clockwork mechanism and a
fell out and broke Tem- WELL do I remember sitting in strong spring, are the latest Templer's car with him in gimmick for jet-age pilots That would have been the Germany just after the collapse who have to bale out.
end of the wor for most men.
walting at a closed level crossing.
We waited and walted. I got One box is sewn to the a little impatient. Not so the
The
RELY ON
CLOCKWORK
by HUGH DUNDAS
charge is a large and penal Belgian called Marcel Lobelle, worked in Beltain since 1917. 15,000 feet. It may not, upen
He is the man who
invented properly in the thin, dry air, and manufactured the two little but instead stream out tangled cockwork boxes
The next step is to add It to even more likely to fall, extra gimmick which will stop and useless, per by belag form to shreds, it the the clockwork action until the cord is pulled at a speed of pilat and sent drop down to more than 200 miles an hour the safe height of 15,000 feet, Jet-age combat willl take Lobelle plans to do that by these safe connecting a barometer to Box place for above ilmits of height and speed. No. 1. It would enable a man Some experts bellove that men to get through the high altitude will be required to go up to danger zone with the feast pos heights of around 70 mile to sible delay and have a
* good start rocket missiles on the way chance to their target wings, giving
With small
But Templer got his back general. At last a train rolled harness which holds a pilot by, a poor shattered thing with into his seat, the other to. strapped up, and instead of broken windows and peeling his parachute belt. retiring gracefully took on paint, crowded inside, outside, pilot in trouble has only to reach that speed quickly in
dive his body is exposed to a the mechanism an ace job in Whitehall and topside with grey, tattered, operate
blast pressure of one ton which ejects him-seat and square foot. That is much more running an organisation of hungry-looking Germans.
the Templer jumped up in his car all-and
two little than enough to knock him out, guerilla fighters behind the
"There," he
and no mun could recover from boxes do the rest, lines in Germany. Yes, the with excitement.
such a wallop soon enough to man who is to fight the said, "we've done that, It's our
first train, and it's moving" The first box releases the jet pull his ripoord. Communist guerillas
in That was Templer, the first man from his seat; the second Malaya ran his own cloak- Director of Military Government pulls his parachute ripcord.
A man with
✡ These boxes, which have just and-dagger outfit in Nazi in Germany.
single purpose: to clean up the
gone out to a Royal Navy Jet Germany.
mess and got things moving,
abandon ship at strato up are the first big step for jet airman Well, he has an even bigger ward in the race to make jet sphere heights (40-50,000 feet, job of cleaning up to do this fe mafety equipment equal to are common) must face three only a very ile lift, a rockin
miles to a target 3,000 miles which he ate hole cabin in away. A way must be found of He has designed a method of ilment will need his enthusiasm the Germands of super-heights perile apart from speed. Ho is could glide from a height of 12 or but only the man and hla and endurance-all of
(11. To be frozen shift, thousand Allied air.
bringing the crew down exploding the crew compart me bing with the RAF saved (2) To become unconscious to earth ches the rocket is set ment away from the their lives by parachuting in through lack of oxygen,
His job
Tone time I rat, in on a nume A bit of meetings at while Templer, stiff and upright in ha plaster cast, we in the chair,
BIR GERALD TEMPLER was BORN in 180&WALDEXTRE COMMISSIONED in 1910. MADE Director of Biliary Intelligence, War Once in
PROMOTE
Then when Germany had col Ispeed and it was the Allies Job to Tabulk what they had dess troyed he was appointed Director deci at
In 1050
Freeze, or
who has
to
alable de
ind
He made it
the lam war. They imply (3) To be helt killed by ex- on its course. clambered over the side,ur posure to rarefied air pressure. stopped through hatch, count. By dropping free, with his etten and pulled the ripeord). parachute clored, he might get chicker and
en
of
teaching
ing the ground
alive, a
Lobelle's ultimate plan is
the
to
Bet all set bombers and of Mowing
It up by graduat binges to the 14 myanitimlly floats to #artis u the and of three hu
are there is all the edge of an airteld in chite
enterprise firm which