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THE CHINA -MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER
A GIRL IS HAPPY and adventure pays off
MONTAGUE LACEY sailed in the linar Saxonia, with 300 Britons seeking a now life for thomsolves in the now, young world of Canada. Today ho reports back on how some of tha "Saxonians" he got to know are shaping up to the challenge that emigration represents.
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MONTAGUE LACEY follows the road to a new life chosen by 300 Britons
suddenly opened up for her
to request a 28-year-old when he is at home. They plan emigrant new
to stay for three years and then Canada in a way she had North Londoner.
uet their own farm, hardly dared hope for back home in the
He was going up country Lancashire to try to find a job as an electrician when I met talked over 13
murk of Warrington.
inment in a chaiù restaurant.
She was a nurse in Lan- him. We cashire. She is a nurse Canada-at Toronto's Ortho- paedic Hospital.
Emigrant Harry looked
Those lust four words carry all the confidence and satisfac iton that go to the immigrant
who is prepared to work, and Adjust himself to a new life.
For such--and there have boen 328,000 from Britain since 1048there is happiness ahead. The sort of happiness that has come to Yvonne-25-your- old Yvonne Chaffey from Tankerion, Kent, ··
She got herself a job as a secretary at £17.a week. She shares a wooden chalet with three other English girls at a small rent, docs all, her shop, png in the supermarkets, has an insurance policy and is able to save money towards that English holiday.
"I love the life out here," she
not said. "And I would back to work in England."
1954
THE MANY FACES OF KONRAD ADENAUER by Cummings
Commings
ANTI RED
GERMAN TYPE:GOOD
Through Mr. Dullen's syns 25: Through Mr. Eden's aybe ... Through Mr. France's eyes
no
Through Mr. Molotov's eyes”.......
Laridon Express Service
about him with more than THE END DRAWS NEAR, AS THE LAST usual interest at the com
fortable leather covered
i
and
dining chairs, at the tablecloths laid for
clean
customer,
cach the
Her new
hospital and home are in pleasant sur- roundings where there no smoke pollution, colour is already starting to tinge her pale Lancashire cheeks.
The hours of work are bøtter, and I am getting 255 a month compared with the £80 that I got in Eng- land," she said.
"I'm a bit amazed at the prices of things, but the only thing to do is to forget about pounds, shillings, and
pence.
"I don't feel a bit lonely -I have another friend out here, and the Canadians soon make you
wel-
come."
feel
new
"hostesses" (Canadian for: waitresses) their pale
AUTHOR TODAY MAKES HIS BOW
""I
MIGHT make a bolt for it," Lanning thought. Besides the rank of taxis, He glanced round. each with its driver, there were plenty of people about, as there always are in the King's Road. blue and white uniforms, it was dark, of course, which would be a help; but the
chances were too much against him.
nylon stockings and white
shoes,
Fed Up
He explained his interest.
elec
It was the strike of trical workers, at Lyons in London that decided him to leave England.
it.
"All right, officer," he said, and at the time he meant But as he was walking at the policeman's side, trying to sort out his thoughts, he looked up and saw that they were passing the street that led to Farley Street.
All at once he remembered Gerald, whom he had left helpless on the steps of Number Eight, with a pro- And "I could not stand all the mise to come back. trade union restrictions any he remembered Enid at the more." said Harry. "I would Sloane Court Hotel, also overtime and waiting for him, not know. not work
to do. He had was fed up with the biokes ing what who didn't want to work at told her to call up the police
the if he didn't Electricity Au-hour's time, but would she Does she mise anything British in Canada? Yes, of course thority and when the strike do that? -her mother and brother was on we were told not to to get mixed up with the tea police any more than he did. back home. Now she has a go and eat in certain true emigrant's ambition- shops.
to
Hard Work
all.
worked 1
for
come in
an
She didn't want
-
came
Gave a push
I always did and I shop at the work hard and earn pulled faces enough money to pay either stewards when they
her round to check up.
for a trip home or for mother to visit her.
Hard work-that is thing Canada expects, gets.
That should suit Harry sorry, no surname, at his
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Why should he yield up "I'm a skilled tradesman and his liberty to this elderly, He the I do not think it will be difficult
get work in Canada, and lumbering constable? and to
when I get on my feet my wife might be kept for hours at will come out."
the station, he might even first-rate electrician be charged with murder.
108. 10 148. And
the scarcely had Harry can earn hour In Conudu. He will work mainly a 48-hour week. There thought crossed his mind will be no free medleni ueal-when he gave the policeman ment and he will have difficulty a sharp push outwards into
Bul hard
the roadway. In anding a house. work
Its dividends lo Days Canada, The butcher and baker here can earn £13 to £20 a week, and a bricklayer can get 145 to 17s. nn baur. I met one garage hand who drives to work
»Bayer « LEVERKUSEN GERMANY.
Ibig American car.
Lucky Couple There is an increasing demand for agricultural workers and a lucky couple are the Smiths Mr and Mrs Tom Smith. Honiton, Devon.
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and what a short-sighted polley It had been Half of their troubles came from . Now she was safe, that was the main thing. At the hotel nobody could harm her; his thoughts her as com- could dwell fortably as if he was actually
Sequence Sinister
THE STORY SO FAR
COMMUNISTS are after a secret paper scientist Gerald Cockburn has brought from America. Enid, his sister, and George Lanning, in love with her, are helping to outwit them.
After rescuing Enid from the gang's headquarters in Chelsea, Lanning frees Gerald, who is badly in- jured, and goes to find help, only to be detained by a policeman in connection with a murder in Gerald's Richmond flat.
Less rosy
"About seven minutes' walki "They won't
After the animation
King's
Road the
of the puriicus of Forley Street
dead, seemed dork and deserted. Lunning could hear their joint footsteps echoing on the pavement.
"This chup of yours," said the
"do policeman suddenly,
you luppen to know how he came by his injuries?"
Lanning hesitated. He won- dered if the question was in order; he wondered still more how to answer it.
Some thugs set about him," he said at last.
"Have you any idea who the persons
concerned might be?" the policeman asked.
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Rough house
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By GORDON
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one after a charge had been 1-1 go would have beaten you They may have takteri him. Corn, and a migger from. Valdo,
"Officer," he said, "Yes?" said the policeman.
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he
with her, and he did not try to He wondered what his posi-
Again Lanning hesitated., It stop them dwelling.
tion as a suspect was. Would A wave of irrational optimism: they charge him at the pollee would all have to come out be- swept over him: everything was station, or would they just in fore long, and to prevaricate, or
Before, And with his terrogate him?
only not to answer, would arouse the all right now.
policeman's and Enid's danger had been reattoman he felt he could trust him,
suspicions, As of relaxation security came an overpowering him, now he began to think of man feeling
could he trust him as with the As if.
ԵՐԳ re his
In own.
any
the case fatigue,
strain,
him policeman? That had been his moval of the nervous
of his sight until out
they difficulty in talking to him all the physical efforts he had man would not let
along. made during the day were reached their destination.
There was only one thing to man lurch, taking their toll of him. But it He suw, the
Д delicious tiredness, do, he must take the man into his confidence. He had already quenching thought and worTY. topple and heard him fall, was
was "I've no idea where we are.
done so to some extent. Was but by that time he half-way across the street, Is it far to the station?" he ask- It wise? The policeman hadn't
which was en- "It was a rough house," he said making for a passage that ed the policeman in a friendly cautioned him,
skic, way.
couraging: they only cautioned briefly, and they beat him up. passersby were scarce. Had het heard for a long time; laughter.. opened on the other
The third possibility was too A grunting chuckle from Rudek, away.
horrible to contemplate..
a histrionic silvery pění from Surprised faces were turned
made.
"They up, too?" the policeman said.
the policeman. behind him. "Yes, tf I'd let them." Lanning inside," said towards him; he heard shout or two, and footsteps
"Welcome to the station!", sald thought with some complacency matter-of-factly, voicing Lau- after him; but
"When you you pinclied of the precious trio he had ten- ning's fears. coming
polleeman, pushing him into "I ought by rights to take you the poom. The station's what me" Lanning fumbled for the porarily laid out, and wondered of nothing concerted, no hue
the station," keep me long, right word and wondered if he what sort of shape they were in
added, The passage led and cry.
had get it "I had been, as now.
meditatively, but if I event in we call 1, though I dare say it's They are to work for Mr inte another street, less fre-
looking for a the matter of fact.
"Could you identify them?" the now I might nab the lot. He not the kind of station you were C. Taylor, a former Minister of
quented and much darker; who wanted someone to manage he doubled down it, took one policeman, rather grimly. For a taxi to take a friend of mine to policeman asked. Again Lanning looked hard at Lanning. "What expceling. Some people call it a Agriculture for New Brunswick,
moment Lanning's optimism hospital. He
been hesitated, but why not tell him? do you say? It's the citizen's cell-it's that, too."",
He had nothing to be am quite ready. Lanning" nom he heard another sound
to help the police."
As Lanning stumbled into the his farm whale he is away on turning after another, and wobbled, as his hopes of joining injured.”
of in the part he had played. political work. The Smiths will then slacked off into a run- Enid grew less rosy."
"There was a big square sald."
that wasn't laughter. it was He did not have to remind something between a sob and 4. be paid £40 a month and they
Presently be
faced chap and a slim-built will live in the farmhouse where ning walk.
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willowy article in green cords, himself that he had been here moan, and came from Gerald, .. and a china-faced little thing before; but this time it was the who was lied to a chair, the blood and still, oozing from his untended asked the called Core, She was the worst polleeman who knocked
rang. He knocked several times; knee. His eyes, which had lit of the bunch."
bellevo I know them," said the sound filled the street and up at the sight of Lanning, were "In Farley Street. As a mat- the policeman, "I believe I know beat inside Lanning's tired head now fixed on the policeman. He
But no raised his head, drew:a gisping- ter of fact, he was pretty badly them," he repeated. "A nasty like a physical pain.
Well, here we are in footsteps approached the door. breath, and said just audibly:
the "That's the man who did it, fact, I left him on the doorstep, Farley
policeman remarked. As a matter "He bit back number?" "Eight,"
the bell" Lanning was impressed the mur. His voice trailed by his coolness, but then he did away: his head drooped and he. not know what it was like inside. seemed to have fainted, The summons on the bell re-
TOMORROW: L. P. Hartley mained unanswered.
brings this unique thriller to a dramatic conclusion."
everything is found for them. stopped, and as he did
Mr Smith will look after the another sound, that was herd of 80 registered Ayrshires like an echo of his own with the help of two hired men footsteps, stopped, too. and Mrs Smith will look after
Ho started off again the house and cook for the boss
full speed, trying not
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That depends," sold
"They'll let won't they?”
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lie's
telephone, Knocked about
"If the reasons are held to be sufficient," said the policeman ponderously, "yes. Under super- vision, of course.”.
"Where is he?" policeman.
listen for the other foot- with a rush of confidence; "I've knocked about. Az a mütter of crowd.net. What was your "Seems they're all cy Lanning I...I know him. He's
steps.
At last he espied a deep doorway, almost a porch,
'
"The thing is," said Lanning, a material winess,
as a matter of fact."
got a.
She's at the Sloane Court Hotel,
and plunged into it, press- ing his back against the no
projecting wall.
"I should say there would be
dimculty," said the police
17.
So thint With
the idiotic phrase which kept.
Lanning peered down the ill- springing to his lips, so anxious was he to convince the police lit street," "I don't see your blue man of the truth of what he lamp, he observed. was saying and of the urgency
at the other end," the
of Gerald's need. He felt sure porn said, "We're coming
the to it" was all right, too, the policeman would say В deepening sense of matter. could wait until they
He began to flash his torch on Cora and Radek
Fight out of him security Lanning walked along reached the pollice station, but the numbers of the house: Four-
The pursuing footsteps came to a halt outside his shelter, a torch shone into his face and a voice said:
"I saw you get away from
Acen Thirteen, Twelve... It beside the policeman. He had to Lanning's surprise he said: seldom in fils-life felt the need
was difficult to see for in front, "We can take him on the way, and the doorways were in of protection, but now he was The station's in Farley Street,"
shadowy. of it. Then, in a flash, he
Lanning could scarcely be- membered something that leve his luck. That the bobby: punctured his serenity
com-
should prove so tractable! And pletely.
that thô, station, should be in Farley Street How Ironical, but how helpfull
him, but you won't get On the doorstep
away from me. I havo your description, too, and I must ask you to accompany me to the station."
Where is he?
Lanning and the policeman exchanged glances; and Lanning Awondered if he should tell him of the route through the house next door. But try as he would to get back his old energy he couldn't," and was content to leave the initiative to his ally. Shall
The policeman stopped. "This "Let's see if this will fetch
the
sud- we get a taxi now?" is Number Eight all fight," he them," ho suggested.
"Not worth it," the policeman
wald. "But whore's your man?", denly
and ralaing Where indeed? There was no He stooped down How could he have fee paid. "The next turning leads sign of Geraid.
the flap of the letter-box with gotten it, when it had been the Into Farley Street. It's only a
Lanning's thoughts whirled, his finger, whistled three times Lanning could see little means of bringing him into his short street. We'll do what we Had he crawled away?. But how through it. They both drew of the man except that he present light Gerald, slumped can to make him comfortable, gould fre, with his injured knee? back and the policeman said, on the doorstep of Number and then we'll call an ambul- Had some passerby picked him, "If they open the door follow WAS wearing ordinary Eight Gerald, whom he had, ance."
promised clothes.
Who are you?" he gasp, ed, still breathless.
"A policeman. Hero's my warrant." He took a card out and flashed his torch on
All right," said Lanning for the second time come
I'll
He fell into step beside the policeman C
The fight was out of him by now the didn't think running awayek Ins
ING POST LTD felt enormously
to take to hospital,
and diamay, Lanning felt
In the midst of his contrition
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twinge of Irritation at the thought of Gerald. It Gerald who had got them into this mode
and... siffler
Gerald,
Vaner with practical Joke, an headquations in Farley Street. If Gerald hadn't" "been "Enid's brother,
she hadn't been so devoted to him up to spa
But rescued he must þó,
For a moment Lamming.
Entertained the idea give his “captors; tha
to
up? Perhaps, but in this street me straight in, and stop when 1 AARON BROD KANAs he spoke a gleam of
Here is LP. HARTLEY, the last of; the team of best-selling "authors who between them have "written this gripplag thrillut./2
You remember. Cront
et the stageR Splotto: GEOFFREY
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light appeared through the slit of the letter-box, and Zooitaps were heard.coming to the door." It opened a crack. The policeman did not wait but pumhed it and *plucred in, with Lanning hard at he heel. Under the hail light the Policeman stopped: 74 kuAS ph. Ing the a doorway, D
CIBE the room' opposite, which was nole lit up, Cora and Radek, were standing, astonishment son i theli@fac
the
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