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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1954.
UGANDA-THE LAND OF CONTRASTS
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By Yorke Henderson
OST of Britain's the Moon, lush pasture torate, it is far and away the colonies hit the head. lands that look like un- most important, and whatever
Kabaka is in power lines at one time or spoiled rural England, and precedent as a hereditary ruler has high another during 1953. steaming mountain jungles. in direct treaty relationship Uganda was the last.
with Britain, It is Africa the way Hollywood likes to think of it. King Solomon's Mines Kabala's realm in the last cen- could be just around the tury, they wono astoundedi. corner,
With only a few weeks of the year to go, it sprang into prominence, suddenly, dramatically, when late one afternoon the world read that Britain had doposed and exfled the young native ruler, Kabaka Mutesa 11 of Buganda.
There WILS a flurry of front
The Juge stories, Inevitable colonial affairs row in the House of Com- muns, then, almost as sud- denly as it had begun, the issue appeared tu face. Now comes a threat to the seale of welcome the Queen may expect in April when she goes to Uganda to open The great Owen Falla hydro- electric project.
When the first explorers Bad missionaries renched the
Trekking northwards through. Kenya they had become used con- to the primitive and the mvage.. The atmosphere of
obtrudes Into the trast
But here, by the green shores everyday life of the coun- of the great
inlunt sea, they try-Buicks and barkcloth; found
highly-organised schemes power
und pas- court.
society, cening around a royal toralism; an ancient king- ship running side by side with an increasingly de- mocratic legislature,
As your aircraft touches down at Entebbe airport the first impression is of undulating green
lush
DICNA,
Much more is going 30 be heard about Uganda. most Let's take
a look st it significandy,
during the breathing space First, it is not a colony, It is a Protectorate, looked after and administered Britain under the terms a treaty signed in 1800.
by
of
Geographically, it lies next door to Kenya, fring-
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The airport is one of the Africa and, mode in
was equipped
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Nirobi, the
Jong-mnge jets, while three East African
senior elly of the
territories.
was still just munaging to cope with the bigger piston-engloed machines.
in me, too, they discovered that the ruler Mtesa was feared and hated
for his diabolla cruelty, and their letters home spoke of the horrors he icted on his people for the most triviai of offences.
It
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In the west, near the Congo, live the race of giants called the curious ridged hair-style remind Batusi. Their the features and
you Irresistibly of the Agures on ancient Egyptian tombs--and sume say these lofty aristocrats originally did sweep down from Egypt.
They are famed by their high- Jumping, their graceful dancing, the usual siguificantly unlike shuffling or loping of Equatorial tribesmen, and. above all, their loathing of any form of manuni
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Uganda, however, hna corne a of the dreaded Mtesa and his long way since the horrifle days
even worse son, Mwanga, has taken little more than half a
You probably saw the Batusi entury to warn itself the re
as the "last ree" in the recent patation of one of the most goal version of "Klug Solomon's uhead of African territories.
Minen"
the fur north, the Lango tribe Mill prove their manhood the tough way. Armed uny with spears, they turkle Berest of animals,
the i
It is by and large, one of the most peaceful and prosperous of five peoples taking Alrican wuntries, with the nu-
Recently, however, district મમ ever officers have been reporting that increasing share in the highly- the Lango are taking to The town of Entebbe, itself, Profitable coffee and cotton In Western-style Sport Football kooka what it is towa plan- distries. And projects like the and athletics are the popular
It hous the Uwen Falls and the Kilembe choles
administrative copper and cobalt mines,
mise even more prosperity.
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creation
Proletarulda
heliquarters, nad it has The indefinable, unfived-in, unloved ol of all administrative con- ires.
this Bea
live on
A
ol
Curious, maybe, But that's Uganda for you in a nutshell. Soccer and spear-hunting, The old and the new together. country built up of dozens different people--the modern- minded Baganda, the primitive Kuranajong, the ornamental f ally useful Butust, the tough, fun-loving Langu.
But leave modern Bugando behind and head up-country. is then you ki yourself bang ing the north of mighty Twenty miles away, over one in the heart of elemental Africa.
Africa's bee! Farinne
You 1100 Lake Victoria. With Kenya of East
ced a special permit, for ites the traditional instance, before you can enter Tanganyika It forms Toads,
capitod, Kumpula Car-owners the north-eastern territories of the Bast African High who live u
make the Karamoja tribes. Here, Commission, a body which a point of honour to cover primitive burdsmen
Twenty diet of blood and milk-and they
thrive
it-wlule spear- currying warriors go naked, ex- cept fox fcw beads and at ostrich-feather headdress,
The Goverunent hus only re- cently convinced these tribesmen that a boy can without celebrating the event by represents only one of the four murdering a member of another growing pains of a young
those twenty miles mautes—some going
com- ser.
car!
administers certain mon inter-territorial vicos like railways and posts and telegraphs.
any
anetent
This
the heart of the Buganda country, the resim of the Kalakas which
Protee gives its pan to the torate us a whole. Although it of Provinc
It is a country of breath- taking contrasts-the sour- ing SHOW peaks of the mysterious Mountains
within the
Protec-
ribe.
enter manhood
BUSCH CIRCUS
WORLD FAMOUS:
CAUSEWAY BAY
That's the way Britain wanla Ugurxian to be, Andi that is what lies behind the present trouble, for the Kabaka and his ministers have made it clear they want lin independent Buganda.
It
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At 81 Princess Marie Louise has a 'Grace and Favour' house
that makes passers-by think it is a bomb shelter
The
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THE ROYAL HANDSHAKE Princess Mario Louise
P
PRINCESS MARGARET, the Princess Royal, the Duchess of Kent, Princess Alico who will be kept busiest during the Queen's absence?
By GORDON BECKLES
persons to occupy this Crown Estates fortress during the war were the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester for a time.
Princoss Marie Louise was in the sits country at that period. Now sho on this Curzon Street house surrounded by the treasures of a long and active I put forward a claim for 81-lts of travel and good works that year-old Princess Marie Louise. seems far from diminishing. Nothing daunts her: charity canasta at midnight, committed meetings, smart dinner parties, prize - givings, concerts and
buzuars.
The other week she figured three times successively in In London Los), Night.
to know and
oven
Y[ {w peoplo Keem much about this princess; fower, know where she lives,
Her story is a strange one.
PRINCESS Marie Louise, a grand- daughter of Queen Victoria, lives in ¤ Royal residencè in Mayfair, but one with so litulo "Grace and Favour" about it that pussers-by bomb shelter.
funcy
it
Concrete buttresses six feet thick guard its ground floor, while its Brat Roor windowa are all bricked up. The front door faces Lansdowne steps, Berkeley Square, and leads to her 14 rooms (and their 41 doors).
This is all that is left of what was intended to be a second Buckingham Palace, if the authentic one were ever bombed to pleces.
Furniture, carpets and decorations were moved in, but the
Sho was born on August 12, 1872, the daughter of the Queen's fifth child, Princess Helena, and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Few reference books make any note of Marie Louise's marriago.
The princess was married in 1891 in St. George's Chapel, with what was described na "overy conceivable cir- cumstance of pomp and ceremony," to Prince Arlbert of Anhalt. The Kaiser came to England for the ceremony and Queen Victoria were it her blessing.
Nino years later the marriage was quietly dissolved, and she became Princesa Marie Louise again.
She was five years younger
than Queen Mary, but they shared many of the same tastes, ond with the same mixture of convention and modernity. She liked a cigarette, and her interest in women's causes finally led to her being one of the founders of the Forum Club-she is this year's president.
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VERY now and then through
years the name of Marie
the
Louise
has come into the news. Once it was Buld, quite wrongly, that she was about to take the vall-this rumour through. visits to an Anglican convent.
to Then it would be a visit
travelled has over,
often Incognito. companion
only Royal Helenu, She
MY GOODNESS,
HOW THEY WORK!
F
HAROLD BRETT COES TO SEE WHAT THE GERMANS ARE DOING ABOUT HOUSING
Blster,
wa
the
Princely
SL
world
Her her
Helen
Victoria, with whom she shared Pali Mall's last residence. Schomberg House until it was blitzed. When Ανα years ago Helena Victoria died sho made her sister chief beneficiary at her will.
"Painter, Inusician, dancer, linguist!" once rhapsodiaed a speaker in her presence.
"Not really," said Princess Marie Louise. "I just happen to like beautiful and interesting things."
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are the clerks of the Minis-
The bulk of the building HER Mayfair neighbours now done by the Germans so far try of Education. They have has
been on existing slowly invaded the whole build- of bombeding, leaving only this pocket of
NIFTY MILLION all the big towns of Ger-
Western Germans are many... building 500,000 new
At 7 o'clock on a bright foundations homes for themselves this year. They eall
autumn morning in Ber- houses. Often they reuse Hoyal residence. their
German burned-out shells and bits of I hope they put up a plaque housing drive Das Deutsche in I watched a Wunder, and they say
bricklayer begin his His white coat and wipes the eye of any other nation on earth.
sers were gleaming fresh from the wash. He looked
it
to the princess when she finally day. wall that in Britain would les before the
bureaucratic trou certainly be razed.
invasion and finds somewhere quieter and leas draughty.
Their main building
a man who took pride in material is brick that has himself and his job, but been through the blitz. It just
Was dis is picked by hand out of the mountains of rubble, crushed
I have just been on 2,000-mile housing tour of Germany, getting both eyes and ears full of impressions pleased.
of the kinds of home the Germans are building, and how they compare with the 320,000 now building in Britain.
then
he
The reproof
Into fragments and fashion-
ed into building blocks.
In Germany the average
4
HIS labourer had brought my gots only two bedrooms in ds new flat whereas Britons him a load of mortar in a get three in a house. When a Much of the time I have pail. There was something son and daughter begin to been a lone spectator on wrong with it and the brick- grow up one of them is expected to sleep ins the living room. building sites to observe layer barked at him not sleeping sceneone in the living how German workmen start just one bark, but a full room is general Geman
that practice. crutory at seven in the morning, minute of how they slap down bricks sounded almost like the about that,
the at the rate of 1,000 a day, late Fuehrer back on and how seldom they atop rostrum at Nuremberg. to straighten their backs.
He was the smaller
No one complains
It makes the German feel good to be told than his hous- ung drive by the Anest and
thic of fasingh d
world. But I
will probably hurt his pride. I
ONE EGG, 2 CHICKS
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
HE perky chicks pic- THE
tured above are be-
But the Germans wanted the two men, and in some have made one calculation that me to see much more than lands I fancy he would have is that in opal square footage lieved to be the world's first that. City by city they got the mortar down his of INW home space provided arrangd for me, as a visit neck. Here the labourer and theer quantity of building undoubted chicken twins to
work done i doubt if the Ger- survive hatching, ing journalist, to look all just blinked at each shock man effort yet exceeds the Bri- round the 14-storey heights in the argument, murmur- uish. and the cellar depths of ed "Ja, ja," and went off their "wunder."
at a half-trot to do as he was told.
Ingenuity
only
Overcrowding
They jointly pecked their way out of a double-yolked egg while acientists watched-... to be sure twin chicks are possible.
When
00-
chick-sexer ounced that one was male and the other female, the scientists
The bricklayer? Put out "THERE are urgencies about the by his anger? He was like German housing problem that I WAS not to miss the 10- a giant refreshed. From have no garallel in Britain. Not were 2,500,000 homes storey block of flats the fast movements of his destroyed in the war but named them Claude and Maude. that they ran up, complete hands as he went about his 10,000,000 refugees have come Claude, having enjoyed the ad with walls and roof, in only job you might think he was in from the Soviet zome clamour- vantage of the large end of the was bigger and more ten days, at Hamburg. „ dealing cards instead of ing for homes, and they are still #85
miving st the rate of 1,000 a vigorous than his twin, laying bricks.
day,
The chicke appeared at Or the giant block of
Massachusetts University, US, The skilled craftsman in buildings that was planned
At Harburg I saw 40 families where scientists incubated 208 to..be an administrative Germany gets about 6d. an living any cod hall the size of an double-yolked eggs to see what headquarters for the Occu- hour less pay than his amy huft Exch family has a would happen. The rest of the
cubicle with two-tier iron bunits eggs did not pation Forces and has al- opposite number in Britain, inskie, a blanket for a wall and one in every three developed
hatch, thoughTM ready been switched, by but you would have to go a brown curator for a front door, until the chicks inside were German Ingenuity,
Quizes. workmen to match his sense tween the bimir, and that is homes for Germans.
of self-importance. Or the big new flats built for British and · American
а
into long way up' our scale of Thero is just pocm to stand be-
fortalen and germs are
fore,
containing two
I found three familles 14 common; about one in every 600 He is the man in Western people) living together in one
ald by hens is a double- yolkor. They are rarely twice officers which have the Germany who makes the un- bedroom,
as big as an ordinary was, so re- pipes 80 arranged under skilled workers skip, and the
The State hi provided-cach stricted space usually prevents somily wits as majicopers and a
the twin from completing their the floors that, when the housing drive hum, conquerora: depart, every
trying pan, and they take st development. in turns to cook on si pornmunal flot can be turned into two homes for German, families.
rebuilt 100,000 homes the last five years but has 60/restored its.
Small flats
darkk
act of a giant dish-colog Studies of the bat zon” cevable.. lembar is butid an Audio quo. math, detector which could be operated from an aeroplane
THE EAT'S SECRET": The mea hayo no work and THE SECRET of an affective WHAT sort of homes are wit 80,000 panployed in defence again abo-powered Hamburg has not only, the Germans building? Burung terga dim chance rubenetes amper fan bonished me in
In They are smaller than ours. For peeing any do the it They are nearly all flats,
bullt in three to six-storey In the Ribe and on Germen and offices that in soms of blocks. Most are under 600 from stars and Jobe walking for “all comers, but items canned be Its main atriots you wouldamque puzmány are under 850. bartily (know, that it?- had sq. ft. in Britain we average, Exxon, been hit, let alone that it 850.800 sq. ft., even in our so namener budda was the most!. flatt of couraged People's Houses.
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