THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1954.
Nathaniel Gubbins
JUST, now there is a lot of dis- with himself
Jus
cussion going a
between himself on
those who believe that a future pension. war will be decided by big land armles and
those
that big air forces
think
A
could discharge He said: "It's just like you to Field-Marshal's be serious about foolish things."
She said: "If you want divorce you can have it."
He sold:
"Because 1 cut my
what Hammer & Tongs f
land artnicy will do the trick.
1:12 not
AB
military strategist I have no opinion to from offer except to say that the point of view of the urlwaže soldier the smaller the army the better.
In
SHE Jald
10 her husband: CHE
"What's that red stain on priser handkerchief?"
ile said: "I cut my anger." She said; "Do you think I don't enoto lipstick when i rec
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I said "No."
Bes
She ald "Then why tell
A few years before the last wor for trendunt and justies there was a one-stati army the little Principality of Liech- wrls st tenstein. The une richti
!! private who was promoted the rank of Field-Marshal be-
WIF nobody else there wEN
dure?" avaliable, and no dot bad a wonderful time,
cause
If
Overnight, in an exte martial zeal, the private-Paerlek » battalion, Marshal could assi
* divisional even brigade or orders (what wouts it matter"} telling himself to be on parade at 0500 hours in full marching kit with three days' rations. Al Ave $11744745 0465 hours, before the parade, he could open one eye, look at his watch,
unt go cancel the parade
sleep again.
As
He said: "Why ank what
If you knew
Ne
"I anything but a liar."
It
in the frat
stand
F said: "I wonder how you stood your mother for so long.”
She said "My mother ia big aar. She has tingination"
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He said: "in a court of law they'd enli it perjury,"
She
"My cropperates because
sald
tu
In entertain people,"
Fluid-Marshal he could the that tell himself
he was dirtiest Resi nost slovenly private in the army As a pri- vate he could answer back and tell himself he was the sifilest old foul in the top brass de- periment.
Siap As a private he could his own (Field-Marshal's) face, court martial himself for strik- and offleet, ing superior
L
Stain acquit himself without on his charneter He could make faces
himself in the mirror, at sentence himself le ckhouse fatigue for dumb insolence, and kward himself
medal. He
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uld even himself three days (H.
conduct xive On-
fined to barracks) for having a dirty rifle, relent and gavo blu- self a drink instead.
What's more he could give himself all the decorations farcted.
milf
himself
し
Mother Ukes
He said "She entertained me with the glory that her grund- father always travelled
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carriage and pair and wore top hat. He turned out to be a
rachman."
LL
She att "That better thun Bethg
horse nobbler itkr grandfather, swindling T people out of their money."
"My He sail:
grandfather 14 41 3 FLA early socialist who believed
redistribution in the if wealth."
She maid "And out three rars for it."
He said: "Many people suffer for their political beliefs.”
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She said: "Stop talking about your damn finger,"
He said: "But I did cut it. Look,"
She said: "Isn't that typical of you? Working me up into a Bringing stale about nothing.
on my headache. Perhaps you can tell me the truth for once. Have you had a silly flirtation or have you cut your Anger?"
He said: "Both."
In The Train
"OOK at 'im," said the man in the train, "sleepin' like a pig."
he's entitled "I suppose sleep if he wants 10," said the womon.
to
sald
"He'd be enutied to sleep if he'd done a day's work," the man.
"'Ow do you know he 'an't done a day's work?" asked the woman
sold the
"Look at 'Is 'ands,"
man. They never done a day's work in their lives."
"We can't all work with our ends," mid the woman.
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do you reckon works with?" asked the man.
with said the tomɑn. ead" aure it's bly enough."
"H» might work
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"My mothers always said big- 'caded people was burmy," said the man,
"Be
took
to barmy
True","
"said the tooman, I would sup head a clever 'ead."
don't
"Clever 'ead my foot,"
sald
the man. "What's clever about and drawing director's fees
THE RED CARPET
WELCOME. HOME
KISLITSIN KARPINSKI JARKOV
$145
by Illingworth
MOGEBA
How much does Petrov know?
N the unending war of attrition between spy
and counter-epy. citing moments
few. But
CX- Are
the Anounce -
ment that Vladimir Mikhai- lovitch Petrov, Third Secretary of the Soviet Em- in Canberra, has bassy sought political asylum in
exciting and sensa- both tional.
All the former head ol 'ovina slap-up lunch at thethe Soviet Secret Police in
She al "It's not
Billy cure about your tions"
that
1
flirta-
expense of the shareholders?"
He said: "This wasn't silly." She said: "Who was it, then?" He said: "Marilyn Monroe" She said: "It's just like you make fanlish jokes about serious things."
he
na
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dispatches every day, and when he was tired of playing the fool
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John Baker White, former MP for Canterbury, has made a study of Soviet espionage methods for mare than 30 years.
The Canadian Government put at his disposal the whole of the documents in the Gouzenko caso. On these, Boker White based his book, The Soviet Spy System. Now he weighs up the significance of the cose of Vladimir Petrov.
by
JOHN BAKER WHITE
Australia knew is now at necessarily the Ambassador, M. with
Nikolat Genevalov, who the disposal of the Austra-
the
Commissarlot
wos Foreign Affairs;
ught
in
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PARIS
Newsletter
Now
will the
painter talk?
HE
Paris.
that Otto
Tabetz, Germany's Wo
time Ambassador in Paris, has been freed la causing uneasiness in some quar- ters.
I can imagine the ques- tion being asked by several well-known people: Will the man be cad enough to write his menolra?
Abetz was more than the
repre occupying power's sentative in Paris: he was also its paymaster. His mind is a filling cabinet of collaborators with the Ger-
police protection Ouwer, the
mans. Russion espionage chiels reorganised the whole basic method of maintalaing contact between the heads of sections inside the embassies and trading establishments and their workers outside.
In some cases direct contacts were built up, instead of work- ang through "open" members of the Communist Party. Petrov
would have known about these arrangements.
A new set of rules were laid down; in the partance of the of word of esprimge these are now "blown." and to replace them wil meun many months of laborious work.
(4) The Commercial Section, dealing with the Commissariat of Foreign Trade:
seif" said the woman. "And. Ifan Government. Nothing "pointed in October 1953.
(3) The Poilical Section in anyway, 'ow do you know he's like this has happened since Gouzenko revealed that In direct contact with the Central a director?"
the Embassy door Committee of the Russian L'om- Ruid the September 6, 1945, when Ouawn "I know their sort,"
Igor Gouzenko, assistant and Reeper, Patonya, was a member munist Party: man. "Fancy waistcoats
cipher clerk to the Soviet of the "secret division" and had teress to rooms that Ambassador funcy pants."
Military Attache in Ottawa, Zaroubin was not allowed do Colonel Zabotin, sought the enter.
of the Royal protection
Second Secretary Goussarov Mounted Police. Canadian
had status equal to the Anibassa
Australis. is Indeed, the Petrov case
dur and direct contact with the bigger Kremlin. likely to have even reactions than the arrests and trials that followed the Gouzenko revelations.
"Becuuse he's sleepin' it orf "Look at now, said the man,
the big-caded "is stomach, guzzler."
"I like to see a middic-aped
with
nice, round stomach," said the woman.
Tha}}
a
"Now he's going back to 'is big country 'ouse to 'ave
sald olher guzzle,"
the
BN-
man,
"and write to the papers to say the workin' man don't work 'ard enough."
The train stopped and I opened my eyes.
As the man got out he looked straight at me and said: "BIR 'ead.
pot-bellied Big-'caded,
guzzler."
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NERVOUS MEN
HOW
nervous
much docs
(8) The Military Section, eom- municating with the Director of Military Intelligence.
There is no name recorded of & Soviet military attache 10 Canberra, but that dues not rule
Petrov must have known the whole of the political set-up inside the Soviet Embassy-and out the existence of a
Section. почу The Australian security nuthorities know it.
THE LIST
Military
They will know a great deal about the ciphers used by the Petrov Sevict authorities for their top- know? There are many secret despatches.
The usual
DETROV, responsible fur men and women in practice is to have five sets of security. would certain's Australia today who would like ciphers in use. They are for know the ciphers and have seen to know the answer to that
the messages of Sections (1), (2) The broad answer
(1) The Ministry of State question.
and (4), and probably of Seethin Section. is: a great deal.
which
was (3). Security
it is unlikely that he under Petrov himself;
would have known the elphers their reports,
Petrov will know who is the reat master of the Soviet Em- (2) The Embassy Section, with used by the Military Section, or bassy in Canberra, and it is not the Ambassador communicating even bave seen
A WIFE
her
battle
wins
over
DESPAIR
..by RUSSELL SPURR
FROM A WAR-TORN COUNTRY whose fate makes Page One nows comes a talo of a courageous woman and her faith in her beleaguered husband.
INA
IMEN BIEN PHU
HANGI
SIAM INDO- CHINA
and the Military Section would have had no knowledge Petrov's ciphers, for
the Red Army
Intelligence and the Political and Commercial 100- tlons work in carefully-deflued, watertight compartments, while quietly checking on one another.
The fact that the Embassy ciphers are now compromised is in itself of ttle importance, but highly irritating to Moscow.
What is far more important 13 Petrov's list of names of "con- Lacts" outside the Soviet Embassy.
The Red espionage contacta disclosed by Goazenko Conada Included two renior followed
every phase of
the officials of the Canadian Com- operation in the war room. munist Party, an atom scientist,
Once the Jungle fortress was
the private secretary to a high- secured she Dew in a number of ranking British Government Hanoi, pale blue linen suit and white times to distribute books and official, the editor of an official
But as the fan Bed Cross packages,
journal, a senior HE was at the radio tropical sandnis.
army officer, bent down
heat the afternoon
At Arst If wa again today. A pale, she told
not so bad. univeralty professors and senior me bit by bit about/The colonel got a letter
out officials on secret research. worried woman with her own private battle with every day by
hollcopter. Her hope in her heart. Speaking fear,
own lettera were air-dropped i to a shell-torn fortress
It began long before Dion among shells and food, Bien Phut. It began soon after But gradually the Vietminh
and the man she loves.
A
D
airstrip, drove off
DOUBLE CHECK
assumed that the Soviet agents penetrating
It can be extent to which have succeeded in the
Jf secrets the Woomero guided missiles and atomle test- Is now known. Ins establishment That knowledge will have reac- tions far beyond the confines of In a diferent feld the Australian activity authorities now inve some khawieder of the born khát
of
Portrait of
with dark hair.
diplomat--
Above: Vladimir Petrov Laken from A group ді Government House, in Australia's capital.
Portrait of a diplomat-
with gray hair.
Below: Same man-Vladi- mir Petrov. A picture taken segen months Jater.
only
•
she married the good-looking, shot up the "This Is Madame de Castries aristocratic
the Soviet Embassy lo Canberra horseman, calling Dien Bien Phu. This is than four years ago.
fewer and destroyed the holleopters, NE of Potray's tasks, as chiet is known to have been taking Only the wadio link remained. O securly fleet, would have in Communist activities In Madame de Castries....Is that "I knew then I should have
which have been you, darling?"
"We had not heard from each boen checking up the credentials, Indonesia, Is what other for
up sharply In recent cheerful voice said, "but plenty of worry. He
days when I finally and testing the reliability of So- stepped She reached
you call a daredevil, He had got through to him," she said. viet spies in for
Australlu except months. cigarette. General Navarre, French Come been wounded twice in the war, when we did speak we were perhaps those of the Milltary
and then he was wounded aghin
Why are the revelations made mander-in-Chief in Indo-Chino, soon after we were married in
quite overcome.”
by Vladimir Petrov of restar leaned over with n lebi
than thosO "Are Indo-Chino, in 1951. Yes, It
In all probability he will have importance takes a lot
made it his business to of courage for a
glean Gouzenko? "Never better," said the wife to be na brave as her hus-
Information concerning the cheerful voice.
bang
you all right, Chrisilan?" Staff Photographers QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY PARADE GOVERNMENT HOUSE GARDEN PARTY
BOY SCOUTS RALLY
Masonic, Ladies Night
H.K.
Products Exhibition
Endeavourers Free School
R.A.
Parade
170 Light Battery Football G Hockey Matches H.K. Art Club Exhibition,
Local Presentations
D.QGĄ. Reunion Party
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Local Weddings."
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Com-
hor
Section.
wi Ich
of
He held a more senior position
Is was concerned with top priority
Now a broken, sick man, in his dashing Abetz was thirties when ho first cut a Parislan dash in prewar
Long before he society. was officially appointed am- bassador he was doing suc- what cessfully in Paris von Ribbentrop was largely failing to do in London
and in- winning friends fluencing people.
Abetz followed the Ribbentrop technique-the people to gel at were the "upper crust." Draw-
by SAM WHITE
ing rooms and
dinner parties provided him with his car- llest diploma- tic triumphs. H and 1 some
sun tanned
with snowy white hair, he al- ways looked us though he had Just come back from skiing or Black tramping through the Forest.
Abetz had something even more important than chaгm - he had money.
He bribed heavily and effec- cate to France tively. He Arst in 1931-ostensibly as a member of a Franco-German meme
Friendship League. A art teacher but an
carcerlet, ho
Nozi party
modest
aspiring
had joined
the and after Hitler came to power be became un- oficial ambassador and pay- master to the Fifth Column,
Since his imprisonment Abetz has lost nearly two stone in weight.
His face has now the
acquired of
inevitable grey-white prison paller. The doctors re- port him to be suffering from neurasthenia and melancholia. He has spent much of his sen- tence in prison hospitals.
The hard labour has never been enforced because of his fil-health. Instead, ho haa spent much of his time painting and has collected nearly 400 canvases.
Often, jokingly, he speaks of his desire to hold an exhibilion in a Paris gallery after his re- leane.
Short holiday
FRENCH
Communist chief, Maurice Thorez, convalesc- ing in a villa on the Riviera, is moving back to Paris soon. Rea- son; the owner, of the villa was under the impression that sho it to a Parle was letting architect,
Highly incensed, since she learned the "architect's". idea- tity, she is now refusing to re- new the lease.
Friends again.
↓
FOR the Arst time since the The colonel returned to the The tears were brimming in military contacts. In the Soviet in the Soviet spy system, and fill
Liberation, de Gaulle is eyes, “It is difficult to explonage.
machine,
again a hero to the Communists. ? war-torn country last year for explain, monsieur, how a wife organised in parallel compart- his third duty
His Press conference recently tour. He was fetis talking to her husband in ments, the master of one set of targets. Outside along the apn-baked immediately appointed
was given a front page report I agents is continually soeking to When Gouzenko escaped from in the Communist daily paper balcony, of the French High mandant of Nam Dinh, hot the middle of rush danger. Command In
0 am sure few women have ever find out
ho can the world of Communiani his Hanol sentries spot" of the
ever harassed experienced anything like it. about the other set.
superior officer, the Soviet Mili bere and an almost verbatim clumped past, while the woman Hanoi delta.
"I could hear the tiredness in
Attache, Lary
Zabotin, was report on the inside pages. There is an unending hunt for ordered back to Moscow, Within
Reasons for his new-found commandant his voler, the sorrow at the "double-agents"those prepared 48 hours of arriving on Russian favours? He is opposed to the
to work, for example, for the Military Section and the Third olhe war dead, of "heart European army; he wants
{crucial queson: "When shall raged beneath ber
as much as
(allure."
negotiated settlement the
first time he has ever mentioned cha polbility in Indo Cans BN"'Warmongers,” China; and he sees the Ameri-
at the radio transmiller talked Mme. de Castries wont with to her
husband--talked about him-the first the approaching monsoon ("I wife to slay
in the embattled dying around him and I bad to
thera hope your mainocut hasn't been strongpoint - and
she keep saying to myself, 'Be calm,
be bravo as brave' as he is.' destroyed"), about the latest learned the meaning of war.
Secretary. lms in town, anything but the
"Now I feel better," she told
No doubt someone will, have Fanatical Communist me.
think the worst is over. Within the Embassy one`set of wa masach other again?”, commandos broke into the town of course, I intend to Ay in officials will lock the filing to pay the penalty for Petrov's
Finally, Mme. directly the battle. Is Anished.
cabinets and even the doors or escape. An Australian Govern- she told me as we drove back do Castries
"I already have a list of thete? offices, against another, ment official has described him to her hotel. Three days ago moved to, Etanol.
Quote I couldn't have spoke to you. 1
of did in Ottawa to the Ambana- Every week-end she returned tobacco, and two bottles
For the rest of hià ville,v,ho was worried out of my wits to Nam Dinh, however, to run a
it la he is champagne for private reis. Now I know hell bo safe," social club for troops.
bration: Zhele stocks were all not allowed the tain that top matter where he is, be will have SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. 1e sat on the edge the reckless cavalryman,
Constant SON WIL When General Navarre picked destroyed by a mortar bomb," secret reports or have access to to live under content police In the anali, neatly-furnished
protection, stridi She sat back and (mited, fired their alphite books, !!!
Alibrant; of ⋅ kuiltan" desiéti; * that it looks like Califórnis, of maroon-upholstered sam- husband, for the toughest job in but proud, "You" modurid. Ankgo Gowanko, chair looking cool and poised in Indo-China, Mimavide, Castries that will be a celebration, 394 by soviet Secret Police agent, (WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED) only ugiler..
"He is extremely confident”, again, and and, to leave. Shongs to takamebean shirts, and | Both may; refuse entry, na they rightly is a brave, man.
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