THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1955.
DON IDDON IN
T
ENGLAND
talks London, driver became III, and
has with journalists, walters, door- HE reception
Пусть taxi-drivers, Journalists, been rather mixed. Hower sellers, night-club own It was nice to
nec ers, actors, stockbrokers, jour- decora- noliste, new paper seliers, TV the flower
of tion made out of strips
hotel newspapers in my
decked with a atred room Union Jack and a Stars and Stripes, and the letters
mmen,
bust conductora, friends and enemies, and er, journalbrts.
old
For once I have been asked than I have of more queations
asked. hadn't been In London when welcome were very pleasant more than a few hours
rang ni a voice to rend. If I recepted all the the phone
This is the telephone offered
The by suid: ten of cups
you East lime YIRI Were here readers i would be here for Supervisor of the hotel. months, and unfortunately add that the telephone rervice
few here Wen'! as good I am here for only a days.
One letter, from
Jack Davis,
Is
Mr
America. Dk you mean hotel service or Fr3-2
Willow i suid:
Avenue, Edgbaston,
WAS
little unklml.
It was
hearts
mell
fellow! and
A generally.
a Ritat
Improvement.
I am dismayed by the parade of aircet-walkers off Poly Circus.
am
There is a certain amount of and hauteur arrogance some people with the right ac- with the tent towards
always wrong accent, struck every time I come back, whether for "consultation" for fun, by this Iron curtain of the BBC and The accent. nima have not dented it. Per- haps commercial TV will
Feeling
or
the
Brilish have not got in THE the cnun-
jitters. The Americans have either got them
the
United States I
can
[
"Oh, in the country Plens don't be up sent ret I am sure there has been Actually to the Falltor and read, in hear you dielinelly."
Our the service is greatly improved. part: "Poor
almost
I will go on record now and contemplate say I have eaten better leaks, and priva- better counts, better Blah, better (that over-fed comes globe-trotting cheese
in the again) endures in spuden
idays in England than I usually keep us
at in the United States, British formed of what the people food has more flavour and of the U.S. think and say is half the price of the equiva-
break when we
the hardships tions this
correspondent
his effort to
about us.
wat! to hear "Just can't
Over- how This Over-fed, publised, egotistle. Journalis
the life the playboy who lives
has been mitoare, spending his few days holiday
but I must admit
in England.
I am a fauntiral admirer that
and would 1111 devotee
Jent lush in Amerten,
Contrasting
Camer
LE
or a reason~
Tho
HI KASE.OF.. DROWNING- THROW LIFEBELT
feeling in the more
I WONDER WHOSE CLEVER IDEA IT
ble fucsimile.
flussians against
is much bitter and ferocious that here. rate the anti-Soviet feeling in the US. as stronger than any feeling even anti - German
Many English during the war. not going to be another wor people have asked me: There's is there?"
I don't think there is. Prest- dent Eisenhower, very much on line had to be drawn, and has top of his job, believes that a Kul-shok, drawn 11. Chiang while
as discrediter! Tuxt America as here, is no hero 10 millions of Americans,
over
N
At the risk of being rude, I Aunerican believe the
the stupendous. When I salled from brain, which is inclined to tick
slowly there Trectvery here has been doi New York the New York Times
un is sometimes less New York is the dirtiest British,
grasps the apart from fexible and subtle, rily in the
the world
the Far Eastorn Far East." dangers of gome cities in the genhus. Well, London must be one of situation as thoroughly as ours.
the rkynest cities in the world. he is in iced of a strong man
Prom
Whit! I have seen, and his bags around 10 carry
for the bey to apply
necessartly I have seen only worki
fraction of the sprawling giant, It is Immaculate.
ints his weekly diatribe, truth to tell, he is
Jub
Consulting
I
the
HANK you Mr Davis. I have
THANK
spending my
few
in England in
days' "holiday"
in the neWK- in known what
ns "consulta profession paper tion." This means listening and falking for hours and attending a series of lunches, dinners, and It does not ade conterenccs. up to a holiday by my or any- une ly's definitióra.
I am afraid the
view" of England Indied
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wnika
"Iddm-eye has been along
it
Dynamite
the JUST
TUST before
The people, particularly
course much are of Wonen,
mes
the
left New York,
a day or two after the Presi- extra- for dent had asked better dressed than they were, ordinary powers and had been
look ruther
them by steam-roller granted but
most New Yorkers with unpressed trou- shabby.
majorities, creased scuffed shorn,
did not apparently realise that sers, shirts,
and occasionally frayed the keg was loaded with dyna- In evening clothes cuffy.
mite or maybe hydrogen bombs. Englishman is still the world's They said: "The Reds will have to climb down," and weat on to bost dressed.
talk about the bouncing, far the work-
market, booming stock
1955 Our workmen should be magnificent new equipped with gloves to prote¥1
C or Marilyn Monroe, their bands as workmen are in
The Bristor so it seems to America,
Anit
studious ine-are being more about the crisis without being scared,
I feel sorry nieu
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hend
furnished with
ure on
to protect Uheir belinets
when they the
building project. and elean Or instead eral overalls every day, svern!
by of the tin helmets
Strand or the Embankment Northcliffe
House forays into the West End taxi, bus, and foot,
wo
might
WAS TO HAVE US THROWN INSIDE THEM ?*
LIFE-SAVERS AT FORMOSA
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
THE MIDDLE EAST IN FERMENT, NO. 2
BORDER WARFARE,
P
1955
Mertan, on The Yemen Frontier. RINCE Achmed bin local Quassin, 2 Arab ruler, WRA his con-
on squatting
carnest haunches in ference with a British poli- flew tical agent when we into this troublesome north- the Aden west corner of the
Protectorate, within sight of the "forbidden Kingdom" of The Yemen.
motor
a
man young
in
the trip provide them with those extra- Waterloo Station solemnly read-engined Anson plane, out of
from Southampton in the boat ordinary bowler
train, a ride in local train from Surbitons,
driving D
ear through Kingston when the
"How
We had flown 95 miles from the Crown Colony of Aden, in a 20-year-old twin- I heard
tropical humidity to the 50 hals which ing out a Daily Mail leader en-
of temperature Will Chou degree F Far surne elly men and others wear
titled
this tiny and which look quite eccentric Go?" to his girl wille a small
outpost atop a 6,000 to
crowd shuffled shyly near by.
feet plateau. Here there does not seem be any great apprehension about bludgeoned physically. being in New York and other Ameri- as you know, there can cities, are regular air raid drills, siren rehearsals, elaborate marchings into the shelters, festoons of air and a ruid signs and arrows, statement every other week that New York "can be muffed out, and probably will be."
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| POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
YSTEINIM
TO
.1001
*** 1: ARPARK, Zatian! Bracefie
that in the sentence; storaŭ ing! The only factice method of
wizi tuser) ike between PENDEKR.
home
and
The flight took us over re- lentless landscape which looked blood cruelly like the tribal
sheiks fouds between which lurve long rent the Aden Proiectorate.
rival
Our first stop, a cluster of mud huta called Mukeiras and dominated by o Beau Geste the fort, is a focal point of Arab nationalist drive to oust Pro- from the British the rectorate.
Ho
F
STYLE
By Harold Guard
In the mountains where David stew Goliath with a slingshot, an Arabian King's men exchange gunfire
HM with
Harold Guard The Queen'sTM Lavics. takes you
to the Yemen border for a first-hand desolate wasteland. tha
a battle for report
on
Men of the
Aden Protectorate Levies performing
(Photo: Charles Dawson)
a tribal dance.
We sat down with the Levies to a dinner of the Inevitable goat meat, highly spiced with curry and fery hot to the palate. And some of the stories told protard the feast, which we ate sitting cross-legged on the floor, were just as spicy.
Most of them concerned The Yemen,
And the story the was Levies enjoyed the most told by a recent refuge from Ahmed's kingdom. Here it is os he told it, translated Arabic:
"And 50 pt pass
came
Imam
the that Ahmed)
thero wan
from
to
(King because much false money
among the money-changere. was sold that the false money was being made by machines sent from Theresa Russia. Mary Marlo
changing hands,
they were
not silver but of basc
dollars werO
and,
behold
mple of
metal.
Bged steward
of the
WHERE FAROUK SLEPT
From David Burk
shouldn't
Cairo.
Ipenhouldn't have ha
has cost me 876 plastreS (nearly £9) to spend 鎢 night in the royal suite in ex-King Farouk's former river yacht, Kassed Khelr,
tourist attrac
που tion.
A
I have a stiff neck, be cause what I thought was A pillow turns out to be " second bolster — and a hard one at that.
The bed itself is also hard, despite Ita elaborate shape, its tapestried head- board and. dully gleaming gilt paint. But perhaps it was all right, after all," for Egypt's former potentate. He is well covered.
Set in the walls of the bed- room old Ivory in colour with lots and lots of gift flowers, leaves, and saucy cherub facos is an array of gilt switches and rosettes that look like bell- pushes.
NOTHING HAPPENS
I push those I can reach from the bed, Nothing happens. walk round the bedroom, furnished in gilt and mahogany, gilt and
tapestry, gilt
marble, gilt
and crystal,
I
and and
gilt. Every bell-push in sight is attacked.
I wander
Into the
dressing
room and the drawing room, And then push more buttons. into the bathroom. A plumber would have been fascinated by the crystal, marble, porcelain, glass, and other equipment. But the bell pushes aroused no response.
to the
Where are the
What has happened royal retinue? dusky, baggy-trousered servants who swarmed to do the royal bidding at the drop of a pin on a think-plled palace carpet?
have been con- They must fecated by the revolution, along with the yacht.
There are, however, two tele- phones. We are tied up, por- manently, to the Nile bank be fore the Semiramis, Hotel, in Cairo's posh district. So, in the end, with a sense of heresy, I order breakfast by phone.
Soon a grinning black face, shining between a red fez and a flowing while galablych, póps round the drawing room door, and announces: "Ring-ring no work"
be-
Having now spent several *So the Imam summoned his hours In regal-or erstwhile
royal regal-surroundings, I am coffers. He kept many lakhs ginning to understand what of dollars in bins
the under
prompts a potentate to cry: "O earth at the Palace of Hap with his head!"
and Plentifulness in
killed Ex of the local guards, rifle and made his way over the piness
They came
from the Yemen border to Merina. town of Amsomah, which can be even from Mertaa. There is a regular Yemen army garriton there, and there were regulara among the raiders," Potts said.
The Arabs at Mukoiras sald
Sa'no,
MELTED
"And, behold, the Imam sald must unto the steward, we count our money to see how false and how much
"He walked for five miles
on his Iron shackles over the mountain roads with heavy ankles," one of the Levies said. of the "He 19 A sworn enemy Yemen now." George Henderson, a dour the may behind the trouble was
We met other escapees from much is
of is true silver. British on Aden Sheik, Hustela Damand, the Yemen who had tales Scot from Stirling, is
at present is enjoying terror to tell, and one of them Agent for the immediate area, who
the "Whereupon
steward that two brothers, All related large enctuary Inside The Yemen, quickly placed
and Mohamed Nasr, were busy waxed anxious and said unto share of the responsibility for
Am50mah We drove with our Levy ese scheming, in
with the Imam: To count our coffers agitation on the anti-Brilish
Ahmed, cort tire 21 miles from Mukeiras Shelik Hussein, the Aden exile, we wound roguing my absolute ruler of The Yemen, to Mrts to se for ourselves, to warm up the border warfare. changers in the
thor 10 who has long claimed the West crawlug along as less
as part of miles per hour over a mountain Aden Protectorate
roud carved by hard about as his own domain.
an emergency route to that 'ald could quickly reach the threat- ened village.
the court of King
SNIPERS
i
SPICY
in Aden, and the tasic would teko ten years, For the royal. reserves are estimated at 200 million Maria Theresa silver dollars.
*
ANYBODY'S MEAL
Anyway, breakfast is as good as here. Buitably attired in my bluo silk dressing gown, I pre- pare to receive it from's throne- like chair (more gilt and tapes- try) in the royal drawing room. But breakfast does not savour ot a palace banquet. It is an hotel breakfast: anybody's orange-juice in a glass; bacon and eggy in a china dish with a metal cover; toast, brioches, and relis mingled democratically on and one plate; a china cúp saucer and milk jug And-
dear
paper. meta dear, serviettel without even a erest co-St.
The whole populace of Mertaa
The pewter coffee-pot, though, turned out to greet ua, headed
"Thereupon the Imam was in youthful Abdullah bin Freat anger. He
commanded has effect it has a couple, of The Land Rovers with four- by
cutwigs on Its handle, in wheel
drives
Naib or local the steward to bring and Mohammed, the plungei
money We were ceremoniously
from all over the Emir eithered
chongera over the rocky sur ruler. With him was his mill- troduced to the Prince,
for the Achmed bin Quaesin, a tall, face with frightening precipices tary "chief of staff," Mohammed kingdom and Aden
His full re- at our side, I suddenly felt we Abdurrab roundly dattering phraserpers galia included a silver-mounted would be safer in the 20-year- handful of "government guards alver dollars and separating
over the who held off the Yemeni attack the pure from the false. old Anson 9,000 feet riflo and curved-sheath knite.
on July 18 after six of their craggy pooles
number had fallen.
fcorsome Arıb,
He flashed a glistening white- footed smile through his black board.
"You are welcome to visit my country. We are picaced you have
take an interest in our problems,” ho said in Arabic,
come
At the highest level of the plateau we looked across a half- mile of no-man's-land at the Yemen town of Amsomch.
WATCHING
J
The wafter, I thought, might greet
me with one of those
is rich; (Every police constable le automatically called "Sergeant", and every "The steward was strild and
in trousers Your begged of the Imam to forsake Hohour"). But what I hear is a such a task because it would
"Good morning, businesslike cost and great air." mean much
The Naib welcomed us with traditional sweet tea inside his Beau Gesto fortrend. As a labour. palace, it would have served as a backdrop for any Arabian Nights entertainment,
Through bipculars we could in
And I fear," he said, "mány of the pure dollars will be
As we were being entertained mirsing because in their purity the fort, the Levies and they have melted in the great The notables of this little
gathered about sce the regular army barracks, Government guards were on the heat of the sun and are no more. Arab village him, and soon we were joined and Potts said he could dis alert outalde at scattered look Only the impure will remain
stealthy. by a detachment of Aden Pro tinguid the Yemen soltery in outs watching for
snipers in the rocky mountain éectorate
recruited
approaches locally. They were to act as our escort
Levies
their flowing white rober.
They are on the top of that tower watching us," he added.
Thereupon this Imam waxed
Imam waxed wrathful and the steward was dlung into a dungeon, where he We smoked a peace pipe -- a slays today. All these things hubble bubble with the Nalb. happened a month ago, the From then on, imtil we reach while the populace sang songs of -Tho refugced al ed Mertoa, which is two miles welcome. Potts said the words
Comparable from the badly defined. Yemen were
NOT VERY WELL
The heavy damask curtains. are drawn aside, and outside, the Nie bestas in, the bright, warm sunshine. Cairo has long boer about Ite business-come king, come revolution, come £9-a- night pretender.
∙1 bathe (the bath is Farouk size) and dress and set off to resume, my rightful plebign the place.
"Can't take chinoes up here thera days. There are snipora ready to ambitus on
to the im Yemeniter were selling bullets me sides," said Yotkabireman Tom Potts, an RAF flight lieutenant border, the Levies Boots were promptu lyrics of West Indian to diskont
the alert for possible calypsos. But the music was Protectorate on ambushes
purely Oriental
h command of the native de... fachment,
stones
Qu
We were met in Meries by A small boy then performed - Potts, told us how on met Jure ghel Absbullah Hussein, who for us with a plaited face gave 18 His Lovy detachment won bollers to Merion, the next until recently was held prisonor aling, nlnging village, about two miles from by King Ahmed in a Yemen unerring accuracy at long di Rovers and
tariota Thema the Nalb, told us torttious. gol, the Yamen, border
The flawan cokoletine in this mountains to
"A bark of Yemenites about
gant, elderly Sheik
the AI step out on deck and
of three the door of the rœal milte shuts dollar,
behind me, I look again at its aleaming gilt crown.
„Potts
The Lovios
1 feel there should be an in“ scribed plaque beneath it, read-
óróleine" | Farouk kept here D