THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1954..
EVERYONE has at one time or another asked the question: WHATEVER became of those people I used to know?
BERNARD WICKSTEED
did more than ask-he
went to find out
ANYWAY.
CONNIE
RECALLED ME
Brisbane.
- AND QUITE A PARTY RESULTED
Can you imagine? The Brai walked
AM now about to re- veal И fascinating chapter in the early Prison 4
life of Bernard Wichsted wee
DAY WILD
and the k velopment of he the welfare oflice- Brith Empire.
Between the years 1922
and 1980, 4,000 likely inds, of whom
Wieksfeed
WIT Mezit
Alison s'uni into
faimer:
WILA
Dut
Were
1. abttugration centre this has Change Clayton,
She Baud -You haven't
I said: "Well, 3 years but you haven't 20ged much." clonged much either."
Secretary
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We nol criminals, orphans, or 4,000 foundlings - just
Connie, who wan a migrant healthy boys in search of hom London herself are, got adventure and fortune.
• Beporter Wicksteed sayu : Can you spot me as a young navvy helping to build a rall Way in Queensland 21 years ago? There I am in the middle of this snapshot from the past.
Uten because his twin brother could not come to Australia 100, An old I remember it so well. woman had to comfort him un the train down to Tilbury.
done all right. Well, he has He arrived for the party in a rich-looking American car.
goods,
His Twin
Queensland CL.D. He is from Herne Hill, London, S.E., and carne out in a later boat than I. He started work in a London because office and came here he wanted an open-air life.
party at the Another man Wits Jerry Thomas, who is a director the secretary and of a men's clothing store. He other and Risch "know each well. They belong to the same club, but neither knew before that they had more than that in common.
leave He
to Kangaroo Peint when I passed
Brough, and though she does TIE has a shop of his own, be turned for all cat 400 beys H being In
silics Dod soft Str uelped to deal with, she has
the best part of Follower 12:0 forttowed
Brisbane.
I cannot
out Sandy laundreds,
He a fruit farm, a town
caino from Robertson. house and another at the sea-
he was 17, side. He has five children and, Edinburgh when
milking and after four years not, len monu
his twin cows and droving cattle in the 30 years, ago, after brother.
west he took up, of all things, who WAS
head-
ballroom dancing. master in Essex, came
and Joined him.
Wieksteed found plenty of both at least 1200 put it the bul retard quate fortune at 19
NOR
In 31 years
I wo glomats.
years he galloped alot horseback, cracked whip stret kangaroos, chopped down free.
thela end Belped t Then he left la tee what the of the wind had to for rest and has had fun anding rats eve since
150
In the 31 you to intervened have often wet- 14 dered whn happened boys who stayed belt. The week have been Anding out
The first step was to call at the uld inmigration rentre Kangaroo Point in Esbane.
We were so wild a cair day that they bolted un
125
and left us there bill to aag. Farmers and the wives used i come out to the renter and feel our muscles and lusk at teeth. Then they would av fo G take the man in charge that one."
Włeitsteed was one of the last this shida, d to go. In 31ng he was never about when farmers called.
the
Under the impression that he in the "Colones“ wa, insup-
portable unlea you went aboial
heavily armed, he had bougi
a 22 revolver and spend met
MAVE in the New Year
believe it or enomas and is Bog to receive i from the Queen this month.
Reunion
the help
"
Dave
1. angland. 11:4 migration tvpetog, Connie gat busy on the telephone, and the next day we at a reunion party that would have done you Rust to There were not many farmers in it because they lived too fav way attend. but those who and turn up were a proef that well boys i search of adventure cam bah out good citizens.
Thers was Bert Gartium, who tament n the same boat as I
the old Hobson's Bay, He was only fourteen then and he cried on Fenchurch Street ata-
EX
"After 1 Jeft you." he told
"I was
sent to at sheep station out in the west, that day they made me kill a sheep to see if i was tough.
Never Danced
Bad He
al
"By the time I had Bnished I was covered with blood, Frying because i thought I had hurt the sheep."
He stayed out west for four years, and then come to Bris- bune as a butcher. Now he s In soft goods, and doing mach better
than Wicksteed ever will.
Then there spector Cyril
was Police Risch of
*DON IDDON'S
E had never danced in his when he came to Queensland as a farm learner. Australian but he WOR championship, and now he has a dancing school that is busy teaching people how to dance at the ball when the Queen comes.
We sought adventure, and we have found it in many field.
Dave Longland wants to get tlant Queensland boys scheme In- going again, and I don't wonder.
-(London Express Service)
the
DIARY ⭑
WOMEN MIGHT SAVE
U.S. FROM MCCARTHY
New York. Tuesday. Is this the "descent into there is sometimes a gun in his
have had a lessness" which commentator dispatch-case, MERICANS
Now he does not often refer mere than enough of Waller Lippmann warns about?
as "President People here are apprehensive to the President violence. All last week and some are fearful--the men Eisenhower" ut
Eisen- "Mr than the were violent words more 50
women. It hower" but usually says in an "Eisenhower off-hand manner, and Eisenhower," from and
and 1" or now and again "Me
every McCarthy works
day him-poses, in now-no golf for
seems to me,
of the day shooling rats on the there river lank
edfram Senator McCarthy, Kangaroo Punt la since then, it is still the real and then Puerto Rican terhaps it is the women who where neweomers stay Lll they have jobs to go to, in they rorists turned the House of McCarthy. The women, assisted
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I have intich
The ten days that shook the New World and astonished the
Most discussed
HE is by any odds the most dis-
Old are past and the ofteial at- cursed and written about titude Is that the McCarthy mon in all America, a vilain to Stevens "incident"
closed. millions and a hero to other Some incident!
millions. This
was a major bid for
so far and so He has leapt the junior power by
Senator fast in four short years that from Wisconsin and it came off distinguished military writer to a large extent. This was a Hanson Baldwin asks solemnly: surrender by the Administra- "Who commands the tion, and it was abjeci.
Carrying on
forefront In the Ogden Reid, chairman
cre Mrs
Army? and answers: "Whether President Eisenhower realises it or not
is McCarthy
flow Senator sharing with him command of the Army."
Next
to
week, no doubt, the ПODAY the unhappy family in Senator will take on the Navy.
the capital is looking the
the Air Force other way, but the women and and then maybe children are carrying
the and the Marines. Nothing and no one are too big for him baltic.
tackle.
what of President And of the
General of the Eisenhower, leading Republicun newspaper. Army
Elsenhower? Не is the New York Herald-Tribune,
ติ bewildered and obviously which says: "The fight must
with the Ko on":
Schiff, saddened man who, Mrs Dorothy
the battle and
proprietor of the New York assistance of his advisers, tried
O'Hare
Thompson, Doris Ficcso11, Professors Max Lerner
and
Mr Elsenhower
Post:
and Mrs Agnes Meyer, to keep out of
then
and at second- belatedly wife of the chairman of the
hand issued Д statement Washington Post.
"backing" his Army Secretary These
determined ladies. Stevens through the Press assisted by commentators Anne
McCormick, Dorothy Secretary, James Hagerty.
be must just what has and wondering
A fortnight
ago Robert Hutchins and their happened.
going everything appeared to be students, are in the front line well for him, his prestige and in the war against McCarthy,
popularity wero higher than They expect to win.
ever, and he seemed to be very Behind
them, passing the much in change when McCarthy ammunition and occasionally struck again and won again. Aring a gun, are Arthur Hays Sulzberger, whose New York Times called the development
Chief speaker
"A domestic Munich" and TVEN now It is doubtful McCarthy's committee "a Star whether the Eisenhower Chamber, and
group of Administration will make
editors
4
Welcome Neguil
Sabotage
"Would you say
that was an embrace of affection or of prudence?"
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SUBMARINE THE GLORY
DAMAGED
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Admiralt
disturbed
Airman sentenced
FRIGATE DAMAGED
asked
4 years' sentence on stoker
Mr. W. 3. Howarda, Civis Lord
Admira
Friday-A naval d Cartlaw, 22, of
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London. HAVE just been told something about the Royal Navy which has horrified me.
What I have been told may be untrue, though in this very week I have been told it by two men who, in each other's hearing, corro- borated what was said, and who men by three other spoke to me independently.
com-
TOO MILD?
by J. P. W. Mallalieu, MP
• Socialist MP for ud
dernfield East, 1. P. W. Mallolies 10 a in the Royal Navy 1942-46. served on the lower deck on convoys to Russia and later sona a commission.
lle wrote the book Very about Ordinary
Beuman
his experiences.
It was shocking, not only because it was so contrary to my own short experience of the Navy, but even more
the because it was plaint which I have heard,
I have been asking questions; despised and discounted so and though my Navy time is but which now nearly nine years past, I often in life,
still know sailors who treat me now, almost incredibly,
as one of themselves. seemed genuine when made about the Royal Navy.
Uneasy
I asked, always first, about living conditions because 1 suffered from these at sea and ashore during the war.
straight
cling
easy about the stories of guns being spiked and gauges being in smashed in some of Her Ma- crashing into ammunition
other jesty's ships.
gun supports or
comfortable clean and selves with the help of buckets in a washplace no larger than
Nook or front room nt Cozy Chez Neus.
GOMIC
Things have changed what since the wartime days, when hammocks were slung so diosely together that if a sleeping man sneezed he cracked the riba of 25 neighbours on either side, and when we slept in a congest ing atmosphere of elgarette smoke, stale fish, pig-swill and
sweat.
It is generally agreed that, as o result of the postwar changes, Royal Navel barreeks are now too good for pigs. But they are not yet good enough for men.
Yet, I am convinced, it is not conditions, ashore or afloat, which
gun- are leading to spiking and gauge shoshing. It is, so I um told, lack of proper discipline.
You obeyed
the Naval discipline, as I saw it, was firm, but understanding. It was grown-up. There are
BEO
WAS
the We stuck that because, when many things wrong with
Ael which we put in and had the chance Naval Disciplino
effectively, we were ought to be at right, but the to grouse 30 wholeheartedly glad to be way it was adininistered out of danger that wo forget liberal with the very largest of At sea, in the mess-deck
small 1's. discomfort. which passed for home, wo
At any rate in serious matters Talking to my friends during Like nearly everyone In could not move upright without
werd given A sensible, these past few weeks and you on some catching our heads Eritain, whether directly inter-
If new understandable job to do. protruding
from the seeing something of the ested or not, I have been un-head. We could not walk ships which are in commission you did it, that was fine. If you I found that conditions didn't, you'd got to have an without
much easier. In the newer explanation which not only the
they destroyers
have
got officers but the rest of the slitp's which actually work company could understand. so there is no need for buckets, It used to be understood, and a senior officer enforced, that if a
whether leading hand, petty oficer or officergave you a direct order you carried it out, however silly the order seemed. You complained about it after- wards with absolute right, and, In my short
experience, a reasonable complaint brought dusklet,
I mow that the British sailor fighting efficiency of the shis except to make cocoa in,
ment vitally necessar
necessary for the showers
From time to time, in
had to mess, we
mixture of
same
through
But equally there is no dar stop
to feel over- sea ger from which
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is not only the jolly jack tar, home from the sea, with con- certinaed bell-bottoms, whom the civilian ACCO, But I also water and green vegetables whelming relief; so the seeming know that he does not make which the storm had pounded ly inevitable hardships of Hie
headlines unpleasant
unless out of their proper containers; at sea press in continuously. there
really and when it was calm again, we had, some 180 of us, to get our- wrong.
is something
THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN
A DOCTOR TAKES HIS MEDICINE
COHEN, HENRY the great physician
Limits exist
Inevitable?
Designers, when they first rench for the dividers
But today, when a leading and their pencils, sny to them scaman or a petty officer given Lolves: Let's remember that a direct order to a seaman, the human beings will nun this ship. aman can tell his senior' to go of things to So they plan spacious mess and do all sorts
tell him sa ito do decks. But, between drawing himself, can.
whole ship's 'com- board and Anal construction, before the
sometimes got there is much Invention, with pany and can which lite mess deck cannot away with it. keep
space. What was once planned as an addition to living
Officers hesitate
QIR
"You did not fell the chemist quarters becomes in the end the
Why do they get away will! naked hopefully, realising that the tidellest gun.. drew up the Government's the chemist must know of his Within mits, you cannot help. it? Because, it is said, naval "black list" of drugs which connection with the "black list." this. For her own safety every officers today, abandoning, their should not be prescribed
by his 92-year-old mother.
ho was chairman issued the "black list," Sir Henry deve- loped a chest cough at his Liverpool home.
ALWAYS A DIN
ad
for
"Oh, yes," said Mrs Colen.ship, as far as possible, must be practice of mixing tolerance because they are "of no "I told him to send the bill to equipped with the latest wea with firmness which made them, pons of offence and defence, to me, so superior to the officers The safety, not the comfort, of of any other Service, are now proved value," has been my lad,"
Sir Henry told this story at a
weakness the crew must come first; and mistaki inade to take one of them—–
medical lunch in London,
though the Admiralty have at tolerance. They are so anxious last come to realise that open to avold the appearance: of an gun shields in destroyers sailing unhappy ship which a long д On the day that the Health
to the Arctic are unsafe as well crime shoot might denote that and writers of good stand when McCarthy launches Ministry committee of which will
alarmed and distressed his next biltz. The Administro-
uncomfortable because they hesitate to back thole petty No matter how long you work frozen angers really cannot turn officers. by what is happening to free- tion Si running out of issues on
First, the dom in the United States. which it can seize the Initiative
in loud noise you never get so shell fuses-thera are limits What happens? tod to it that it cosses to inter-bayand which their lordships They hope to do what the and rout McCarthy, and it aps
fere with your efficiency.
cannot go.. Every sailor, in war belly officers and loading hands, who are the backbone of the politicians are frightened to pears to know it.
Sir Henry, who is 54, is a That is the finding of Medical and in ponce, realises that... do-stop McCarthy be
Navy, chuck their hands in. Hi in his McCarthy remains the chief
bachelor, so his mother took Research Council psychologist There will be
Second, the matelota, Instead of. more speaker for the Republicans, in
charge of the case,
D. Broadbent, who has been Not good enough
chuck their being appeased, ... batties like the one on Capitol the election campaign which
honds In 100, Hill, but the next time the has now begin Eisenhower's
"Waving aside his objections, testing the effect of noise on women hope to put more iron top aides don't think they can
the trotted off to the nearest anilors used to engine-room din
One possible solution would They say: Thero's Jones. Wi While the allora kept: watch win the November election with into the spines of their men.
chemist's shop and returned
when be to adopt the old German plan know he's just a won-lawyer. But What about Semtor Joseph out McCarthy's help, so they
with a large bottle of patent on diale, adjusting them McCarthy himwolf? น่ง I murmur that the Incident 1 cough mixture which was one necessary, the polso of machinery of tronting ships solely ht ha gets away with it. There's swollen with arroganco. He closed dem of the 600 druga Sir Henry hart was continously transmitted ing machines and allowing the Smil. He's just "bloby rusion from place to place in I am afraid it' will bo
left to put on the "black Hats Bagge, from loudspeakers, skoro saliors, an often da posables to minded. But he gold away his black Cadillac (a glit: from the women to damolish the He was bornbed when he saw The will performance was Tve ashord Indecent barracks with it, too. Okay I'm a blo Brolly, word it than when But, Britain: does not. A phases browned off myself Where are Field VlingTibay aur autruiy toole the consistently, his rich triends), his police sovereign" MITTAN
apre,, decent barracka, i
those gaurie Wham!
tracks.
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