"Pare
Moved house recently?
THE JEEP WIFE
I
takes her home with
ber-round the world
London,
Taounds a crazy, thoroughly haywire place to way of getting from one
another. It may well be the maddest
voyage of 1955.
Elinore Carlin, a slim, black-haired,
skinned American, planis
olive-
to travel with her
husband, Australian-born Major
Benjamin Carlin, from London to Australia by amphibious Jeep.
4
It is a nonnal Jeep with boat built around 11; a peculiar looking craft 18ft. long with a spare tyre on the stern and a bunk where the back seat ought to be
It is called "Half Safe," and the Carlins have already driven
It across
Atlante Oreati from Halifax to Northern Airtes and up through Europe. They Intend to get all the way round the world
This trip to Austraia, staminx this month, means months
The wife-and the home that moves: MIRS, BLINORE CARLIN.
and in the lower picture the Jeep with a boat built round it takes to the water,
face once cream."
week
with cold can Navy-pay about £ 18
And what if you get seasick? "I am seasick," saya Mrs Car-
utt
the road, crossing snow-capped in calmly, "all the time." mountains and arid deserts. means weets at sea, with spell of at least 10 days between lunutails crossing the North Pacific.
UIC
How, what, why?
How do you cross an ocean by What do you take with Jeep? you? And why do you do it at all?
I wani uut to the Carlins' basement fat in Regent's Park to And out. Here are Mrs Carlin's answers:
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What does a woman take with her on such a trip?
To wear half a kit-bag fuli of clothes is the limit-two pairs of shorts, one pair of slacks, a cotton skirt, a couple of blouses, two pairs of shoes,
ocross
tinis
انه
out
werk-to support them.
THE · CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, - FEBRUARY
Then Ben wrote a book about the Atlantic crossing. The £1,000 advance royalties-the book will be out in September- pays for the next lap to tralla.
We arrive--
Aus-
TEMPESTUOUS JOURNEY
1955...
AS TĀDUCĂ, AFTER, BRING SUNK, DROWNED, STARYED," PARCHED AND RATIDI BY CANNIBALS, IT MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE JUST TO BE" CAPSIZED IN SIGHT OF PORT
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WHAT'S BEHIND THE FORMOSA SMOKE-SCREEN?
Ꮤ
By JAMES WICKENDEN
"HAT is really behind than the Nationalists. But, the heated wrangles, until a few weeks ago, it the threats and the was not the Communista bosats. of the two who had the initiative but Chinesa sides battling round Chiang Kai-shek. Formosa?
He operated.. Large guerilla forces on the mainland.
Tho Clearly, the revolution Communists have note in which reached its height in Formosa. His air force scoured 1949 with Mao Tse-tung's the Rod count for hundreds of victory in China is not yet not been over Formosa for elk miles. The Communists have over. This is not a new montha and then only in atruggle. It is an old one, recommaissance flight.
The exodus of refugees and China is still in the flux of
ex-war prisoners has boen_from civil war.
the mainland to Formosa. There
Oro
Britain's recognition un- has been aone from Nationalst intentionally tended to give aron into China,
What is happening, therefore, the impression that
the is that
the Communista Communists were undis- striving to reversa this puted and the government initiative; to cut out the constal of China settled for all time. influence in China. The struggle falandis essential to Chiang's True, the Communista is essentially strategic, ond control the largest slice of without the moral significance China and are far stronger the Communists have tried to
paint.
TWO PICTURES
RICHES AHEAD FOR
THE IRISH
still
CROSS Irish bogland waste a cover a million
the
grey Sea, lonely
acres
BOG-MEN
By Vaughan Jones
thatched roofs shading iged spade, he
wn back door. "With a two- Dublin.
bo
to develop any
than needed other rough soil.
Now the State is prepared to lend the necessary machinery
WHAT of support for the two
regimes? In Chéna Aince last September Peking has striven hard to raise recruiting fever among the youth and has failed. The fallure has been repeatedly admitted in Chinese papers. Finally, conscription has just been introduced, as well as tighter police security measures. On Formosa the picture different. There is no lack of support for the Chiang regimo, hard as it may be for some to belleve.
This sort of madcup venture is understandable for a man like Ben Carlin. At 43, he has bec
The fact is that while the a mining engineer digging gold In Western Australia and coal in
poverty, And at least he has no For Gowin-one of the most and grant long loans to bogland glamour of Communism has Peking, joined the Indian Army of the Republic of Ireland. fuel problems. He cuts his turf the desolate bogs
i Galway-s farmers who wish to do the begun to wear thin in China, the
into of when war broke out, and is On their rims huddle little won't know what you're talking being transferred
rich same.
Nationalist Government has To cai; two dozen
interested In ail white-washed cottages, their about if you call it peat) at his farmland by the men from
learnt from past mistakes. But baked beans; three dozen thus of fanatically
Nor need the new crops bury the world has given Chiang fruit; 101b. of biscuits; tea and mechanical things which move.
dices down
for ever the hidden stores of Kai-shek a bad name and will "Ben has built Lwo
The men from Dublin-es re- lightly against the misty ave, ten or more feet into the presented coffee.
by the Irish Sugar turf beneath.
not forget it. This error pre- Immersion heaters into the dash-
purples and dark browns derk soggy mass and casts up Company-had studied scientific From the State a farmer can vents a clear appraisal. of his board for this lap-coming
and greens of the bogs. Their the spits to dry on the heather methods of soil cultivation. They hire a bulldozer which will push position today. 110 Allantic
poverty-ridden owners exist covered bank alongside,
agreed, of
of course, that Ireland aside strips of the now fertile
Chiang has not helped his oWN food was cold
Sometimes he is content to would
He can dig out his cause. His proclaimed inten- a few acres of rough There is some excuse for him from
never
quite Old top soll.
"any Bul 37-year-old
quit as sʊORI Elinore does land, with a couple of pigs into his
as water, scoping Ireland again once ita bogs had turf and, that finished, push back tien of invading China trench,
timo now" walle withdrawing prevents him disappeared. But they believed his soll onto the lower level. type. and B acore of hens. digging lower. Sometimes the
Irishmen do not claim that the from the Tachens makes not seem the pioneering
19 Bleck and svelte.
it preferable to give the poor of the Land and a rough more food.
of their clothes, Potatoes are the mainstay le
country will
appear as a paper tiger. likes comfort, Pretty
runs the water off al exotic dishes.
But they Before the war of them all, though the hens
The city men set to work on rapidly be changed. she worked in the same job in have the advantage of being a he cuts down to a watery Gowla and ignored the predict that the great bags and Then his lol folk, who shook their heads the bog men which characterise he came small-town bank for able to scratch around for new-won land will bear a crop at their effrantery
will eventually In thinking their country grubs.
of poor potatoes or straggly oats they could beat the bog. disappear as surely as the vast Why does she do it?
until yeras of tillage have add-
They talked about mineral oil fest which ones covered much ed some richness. And so the and bog soil, and their idea was
of England Irish have slowly
much the men driven back so simple that the folk wouldn't
But however the bogg.
believe it could work.
from Dublin seek, the bulldozers and the rotovators are unlikely to lend them to any forgotten oralisation among his troops, communities buried in the wilds invasion. He wants to drive as
aro .on tiptoe for where they speak only Irish and preserve heritage.
To provide a touch of luxury: elgarettes bottle of whisky, a (30 a day cach). I rolled 2,300 by hand before we left Halifax." had To read: "Nothing. We spells books on the first lap, but we book on tred to read a word."
"You do it by staying awake, atcering, with occasional
with a bunk, made up
army horse-blanket. hulry,
pillow- insisted on sheels and cases when we started out from Halifax, but they got so wet and sticky that we gave them
after a couple of days.
up
The money
And to give way: "Nylons, the "You do it by eating a steady lipsticks and needles. In
North African desert, the only diet of baked beans uul
that pleased the women can. By getting so sleepy that thing
vyts open by were needles." you keep your
of
£
She
10 years.
"Well," she 'drowis, "it's
She
80
Only Poverty
nice to arrive at the other end.
It gives you a sense of achieve- ment.' And we arrive quite often!
It sounds to me like your thumb with because It feels so good you stop.
hammer, when
bottom
Right now, however, the Irish THE holdings are passed bog-men are discovering they are sitting on riches; the very from father to eldest son, bog which they considered only hitting who unquestioningly pre fit for fuel can one day make
family Berves the
wealthier than name them
their there rather than emigrate, green-grassed neighbours, like his brothers, to the fabled riches of the United whose water-logged wastes are States.
Utterly 1ew
dabbing them with paper Where does the money come
from? hankles soaked in cold water.
Well, when they landed In England three years ago they
But Mrs Carlin Jus! laughs "By getting so tired that you were flat broke. Ben had to don't know what day it is, and rebuild the superstructure of the "I take to numbness very well." barely whether it's light or dark Jeep, so Elinore went to
Mary Hewat
work
o ilred that you wash' your as a secretary with the Ameri-
HARRY ODELL
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England's distinguished artists
DAME SYBIL
THORNDIKE
has
Independent, worries-except
In
the wilds
still the refuge
Green Crop
TN brief, it was not to cut away the turt to the poor of Connaught, subsoil, as the local people had done from generation to genera- of wipe and tion.
duck, woodlook and plover, a
he great experiment is proving his succes2.
COINCIDENCE
SIR LEWIS CASSON
James Leasor sets you arguing alongside the news IT'S
in a final recital
at the
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4
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IS PRECIOUS
USE IT
WISELY
skin disease and liching
Miligal
Leeds.
Two cars collided about two- months ago. Out stepped the drivers. Introduced themselves.
60
TS uncanny, incredible, 00-odd miles to confound Mr when the wind blew a new
of Wetwang, paper into his face,
He brushed it away, then TRUE! That is coincidence, Xorks, and Mr Cyril White, of
saw that it was his own local the phenomenon which has
paper. bocome a talking point all
He read it casually-and found a paragraph saying 'he over Britain since the Death
had won 108, in a competition. Penalty debate in the Com-
That is the sort of coinct- monis recalled one of the
dence that is none the less im- strangest coincidences of all.
pressive for its homeliness, Timothy John Evans and |John Caristio-both hanged for murder, both living in the same road in the same houer.
Two Cyril Whites, from miles apart! The odds against, said the local police chief, were bigger than the ordinary man's chance of a winning ino on the Treble Chance."
face
SOUND REASONS
BUT the reasons for it aro sound. They are the same reasons which prompts him to say he will not quit Quernoy and Matsu.
wants to
He
who
provent de
their ancient Celtic hard a bargain for American
aid as he can,
for Calling To visit such communities has, a dream of Indeed, long been the city men a dream so vivid
a stand on Quemoy is his highest demand
on the U.S.A. It is part of the Oriental procedure of bargain-
reluctantly agrees to withdraw, the Americans will be screwed
defend Formosa
It was to convert the bog that their existence has éssumed surface into rich crop-bearing substance amongst patriolic Irish. It has that, when he
distant from the boglands.
+ Fond.
First they started on a plot
altile
more than seventeen neres, They drained it, they cleared the heather from it and levelled It, They broke up the surface •
The Quest
to up necessary
no-
bis
Why blame him for thut hopo? Nema does not. Despite nil the speculation. on his at- to a spade-spit's depth and not AND it was to find these for- titude, Nehru refuses to say that for carting away for lightening gotten Irish that I myself Formosa belongs by right to the heavy
land elsewhere, as was once accompanied a group of Communists. HIS Arm #no the local custom. Then they patriots who went trito Con-comment" on this question in added the necessary fertilger naught's wilds.
London and his stated the chemists hed
took the train to Sligo luctance to a conference on We previously aralysed the turf-and
they
and there they assured us we'd Formosa are important guides find them in the mountains--|| tho only sowed mixed grass and clover.
BULTO anes to "and it's not a word of English opinion. The surface dried and firmed,
ed, they'
''ll spook," we were told. We In three months there was
a
combed the mountains and found And the CHIT thriving green crop. new land was so solid that little hovels where the women
went
and the men nearby farmers could drive their never seen in trade, but they says, libo Edeo, that an bullocks ncross it without the directed us to Mayo. We searched informal cease-firo is the best animals ainking, floundering to tre bogs of Mayo and they told immediate solution Beyond their middles as they had us that in parts of Conniemen that he will not taik.
and Galway we'd be forelemers abandon his, coastal Islands and This means that Chlang must an' all. We scoured the ro
"
foretold.
The city men went on to a bigger tract of bog, 3,400 acres In parts it was thirty-five feet deep in water, slime and turf,
A Success
a
BEST SOLUTION
' .' .
mots parts and the children the influence be exerts from store
from
the
menfolks offered menfolk
poteen," but that.
of
ropied
the doorop
and
the
an old
Bagorrah, it's
questions ye21 on etter hadither side.
them. That is his lom, f. But the Communisie, too, mdat abandon their offensive inten- tions beyond the coast. It is fair share of bitterness for Then we
If there Is a Geneva-type drover who had penetrated nought's furthest wids. Nehru's line. And what he says Coconference this will probably be Many people have girango, plial, and met her brother An exenvator cut the drains Honotir," he said with a wink i will be the most important It is a coincidence, so extra beliefs about 'coincidence. They there. He was also having treat-throwing up the furt to be delad that showed he know himself to factor in a predominantly. Aslan
THE THEORY
It was the sort that happened to Mrs Lily Hornet, of Hendon, who broke her foot a week or THIS time they brought in sim. GO ago, went to Edgware Hos-
pla machinery to help them.
ordinary, that some people have hold that lightning will never ment been unable to bolleve, bu
"TOO MUCH of a coincl. strike in the same place twice. And then out of the run of and harvested for fuel.
dence, they my. "It couldn't
be
true." But nothing is too much for coincidence. It is a chance in a million Q Billion. put it happens,
CO-PASSENGER
*
that a second shell will
land where the first fell.
wonder.
hard
"
met
The
be more civilised than any of us, discussion. maybe yo'll find them on the slopes of Ben Bulbin
Know All
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
the
pot trivial coincidences, thero como fertil Walk Carried in fruit if yo'll try back in Mayo
one that makes us pause for a mounted on light, hollow steel Dr. Horace Levinson, tho
teot mathematician, dealt with such moment, and think again, and rellors pive feet long and five bulky to sink E across-too beliefs in a book he wrote on "NEW HOPE.
through the still-soft surface. "The Science of Chance?"
the "rotova Another machine, For these are coincidences to broke He recalls how in. "Por with no outward, easy explana- inchoa
up the top eight como Simple, Captain Marryat tells tion, but which give courage machttie which sowed the good HG with a It happened to Thomas of a midshipman who
shepherd with sacking round and rolled it in.. Hodges, now serving never bead out through a shell hole in and now hope to men
་ pressed.
his feet seit us back to the parish years in gaol for the man- the side of his ship, during a Admiral Sir Robert Burnett slaughter of his wife's lover in
*battle
The bay was harvested the priest, "Sure, 'tis Father Donnelly belleving that tell the story of such a one Field 1852.
* the odds were 33,647 and on an ley Fusion convoy during ho surrounding firmed the spanks Irish," he informed us.
was bigger than that of who knows every child who shambled out. of his home bail would
some decimals that another the war di
men from Dublin, went on to through We
nt the village wo called that day hardly knowing what
being hammer other cropa,
on Father Donnelly, genial and he had done...
the same, hole.
pretty badlys 23 he says,
rosey-faced, who knew every- Ind was right in thinking the rouchi wo that I was a turning and sugar best, They plociod
Dr. Levinson agrond that thờ, was very, very worried. So They planted barley, potatoes thing that happened in the wilds, chspoò of 'two shells bitting the over in “my, mind
What is the truth, Father" whether should go on and seletad ermint and peppermint-for, we said, "about these people who Losses or turns, backs, for home
there kull out, my Bible, and ope
A bus pourly run him down. The driver sening his distress, stopped Ță Proming ambiance,
** Bochtes culmbed. în
-be, bad' Just/kiled.
not
come
THE WINNER
But he was wrong in be
ume leving that after one shell had qufe indiscriminala)
landed, the chance that a second.
would ind. In the lume place. is throuLE.
any; smaller than the chance it:
would hit say other, apót sgründ
sill have our
ring: America.
`are so
word of Englan Esadotsa. "To - the acre,) up'll tell you the truth,
barley: 10 tons of pilled - sadky, "The
have furtboecí
the lads who! spesi
Ballina and