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DID IT HAPPEN? Another story to keep you guessing. The answer will be given tomorrow...
The Prince with the pale eyes
Us
informing me that
con- 'fore.
OME years ago, in that they were now my proper- are pure fiction; and all of this Marseilles, 1 was ty. to do as I pleased with. More story so far has been told be-
I gave my mundanely,
wrote it for a "Truc able to render a ser ideration to a lotter from Story" competition. which one vice to a Moroccan solicitors, an English Arm (1 of the Paris Sunday papers-I Prince. It was nothing decided) of immense repute, tisink it was -France-Dumanche very spectacular, and since of their late client the Prince, printed among others that were
by the will was running My tale VA noither of
had
ally had become the owner of truly no more probable and business to be in the three dancing-girls and some probably no more true, and
In Casablanca for received Ave thousand franca particular place where my properly
which an
with that I con* American syndicate for it, and tact (it was no more than was anxious to pay me 1,000,000 sidered that my Prince (for he that) was of value, 1 need dollars and I spent a day's was true, all right, and still
hesitation before de alive and well, as for as reveal no details of it. delicious
ciding to accept the American knew) had sufficiently requited Suffice it that the
Prince offer, but to keep the dancing his debt to me; and then, having was impressed and effusive- giris. With 1,000,000 dollars, I published him. I did forget him.
He ly grateful.
a thought, I could afford them. little man I made him But alast none of these agree- for able things happened; and day about 36-very brown
day my hopes by coffee-
diminished Arab, almost an
and gave place to 'the sad AUROKOMODYZAJ coloured, but with pale blue realisation that I should have eyes which fairly glistened to continue to work for my living. with fervour as he assured I returned to England to do so, and the Prince and his gratitude would never me that he
passed from my mind. forget my kindness, and swore that some day he would repay it in
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measure,
II e Was
Was
full
immensely
As we halted
- one of the Arabe Came across and
t
spoke to us in good Frenchy
They
to
But truth Jaa a habit
appeared indifferent of of the place; and while all the catching up with one's fictions. passage of Spanish Morocco was our presence, and indeed mande not the slightest effort to leave in allended with some risk, James Two years later. I was Tangler on some business, and was born lucky and I foit I the road,clear for us, until we there in the bar of the Minzah should come to no great harm were almost among them. I happened upon an old friend, with him. The whole trip. In an actor called James Cabot,
fact, sounded rather a lark. had been filming In Jancs Spain, and was in funds and no hurry to get home. He had his
by JOHN
JOWETT
We set off, keeping a wary eye open for bandiis and mar- auders, and prepared to take
had killed a Frenchman and his wife already.
Were we armed? Was it vitai for us to get into Tetouan? We said no, and no. The Arab look- ed at us with wonder. "It is that you Then one, who appeared to be lucky indeed for you
us. And in ve their leader, mailoned them met with vaguely out of our way: and as. minutes"-he waved at the bare with a hills-we should have been out we passed him I saw.
Uttle thrill, of sight, and you would have that he 'was driven on to your death. You are lucky men." my Prince.
*
John Jowett, originally intended for the timber trade, preferred the theatre and is now well-known actor, broadcaster, novelist and play- wright. He was born at Wednesbury 33 years ago and, next to cricket and writing plays, "enjoys just pottering about the world, meeting odd people. He describes his character as "indignant, his hobbles "wing and women."
serious about this, and even took some dire oath about. it, his pale eyes fixed on me the while, as if to set my undistinguished features the his in more firmly
It must have been about car, a battered old Buick, with I,
months meanwhile, eighteen memory.
after our him and he proposed to me that was driving we should drive across Morocco, muttered the deprecations encounter that I that come so naturally to back to London one wild night Spanish and French, to Algiers after a holiday in Dorset. A and have 0 couple of days
ship an Englishman, and in due storm was raging and the roads there before taking
for course managed to extricate were bad, but I had to be back France and home.
next morning. I agreed, Tangler was full of myself from the scene and in London
and so I pressed on as fast as I unrest and rleting Just then: from his presenco; and
dare. Suddenly, as I approached there had been a skirmish only should
like to say that I a commer, I saw a figure In the, the day before, and a European thought no more about the road ahead of me, waving im- had been killed. and I was not periously for me to stop, My sorry on this occasion to be out episode.
instinct was not to do so. But the fellow was standing right in the middle of the road, and I be had to pull up or I should have been run him down; and a moment. later, as I came precariously to
POOR
But that would not true. There had
the
in the Prince's eyes ***** a halt (for the road was slip- sincerity that had con- pery), and he at length moved siderably impressed me, and aside, I was profoundly glad
I believed (I was young) that I had.
that not only had he, like
most men, passionately
SHAKEN
I
asked James to stop,
werw
UNKNOWN
and he did. He saluted
and us gravely
companions The Arabs then rejoined his
by the roadside, where leaving
they the rond now stood and watched us, as James and
resignedly turned the car round. striking
saw the Prince's eyes rove ap- off across tho
and then les praisingly over lilm, burren fields, rest a moment upon me. They
.but 215 WC
evasive action, for we were un- halted. the Prince sald some- armed. The roads were long and thing to one of them, who then desolute, and for many miles we came across and spoke to us in saw scarcely a soul. But we had good French. just sighted the high white Icasbah of Tolouan, the capital Were we going into Tetouan? city and a turbulent place We said we were. The Arab where, if we
to have shook
There was his, hend, trouble, we should certainly find trouble in Tetouan, he told us. it, when we came upon a party some insurgents hod set up a of some, half-dozen Arabs road block outside the city gate straggling over the road with and were shooting at Europeans their camels and some sheep: and their cars on sight. They
were
IMPRESSIONS OF THE
wore the same pale eyes 1 ro- membered now so well. Burt there was in them not a fioltor of recognillon: and I realised sndly that my Prince did not know me from Adam, and I felt as if I had lost an old friend.
I said nothing, but nodded to James: and as the Princo turn- ed differently away, James let in the clutch and we drove off back to Tangler.
wonLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED
PEOPLE'S CHINA: PART THREE
PEKING-WORLD'S MOST
P
little
SECRETIVE CITY
EKING is a secret city.
By RUSSELL SPURR
#
The servant? He was shot in family quarrel over money.
Tho Jops confiscated bla properly,
Such capers wouldn't be per mitted today. Foreigners must
meant what he said at the For I could now see what lay time when he said it, but round the corner, and, this was struck down by that he was one of those a great tree,
which lightning in the storm, rare souls who would con- had fallen impassably across the
barely ten yards ahead, Its grey stone houses tinue to mean it afterwards; road,
for the But
chance of this and from time to time solitary wayfarer's (for such
their huddle inside during the months that deemed him) intervention,
courtyards among peculiar- followed, I allowed myself must inevitably, at the pace ily private flower-beds and reed-filled goldfish
The Congress. is made up of What government among the conform or get out. A friend of
democracica over 1,200 delegates elected on decadent
could mine is longing to stay, but ho to speculate what form his was going, have run right upon
is not + It was ponds. Its teeming alleys
Communist. The gratitude might take.
a one-party ticket to represent marshal such support?
and their They were hard
My rescuer had moved round Waver between blank grey ns widely months-I
It's no good pretending this is security possible the
..police The all done by love. The Com- snoopers. harass him at every was living in Paris, and prices beside me now; and as I turned. walls, broken only by the various national interests. were high and
Father shaken sudden red of a laquered army is there, for instance munists have more support and turn
respect than ty,
solle bloc of khaki-and there certainly more
Those Who Stay him and won-entrance door,
are Tibetan, Turkish and other any. Chinese Government since de: what stran- "Its people seem to prefer minority
colourfully the 18th century. groups,
No opportunity is missed to But
the child-like enthusiasm needle him. Travel permits adre ge chance had their own company. From clothed, listening to translations
tele- of the population for whatever turned of the speeches through brought him to ancient habit, perhaps, as this lonely spot
phones.
I was poor-and trere
were times when. I could have done with some rich healthy gratitude,
and
it killed, stout tree.
DID IT REALLY HAPPEN
YES
NO
Put your tich in the space abore and keep this ponel by yau ent!! tomorrow ... when the onnese will be, givan—with another, stay in this series by...
Frank Tilsloy
Did yesterday's store People Don't Change, by Narah Lotf actually happen? The answer her NO.
to
thanks
to save my de well as from the restraints on this dismal, of the Communist regime. storm - tossed Officially, Peking is quite.
09
Like A Theatre
night,
I was the most secretive place in Workers from mines, railways able to see him
Till the world. Sealed lips, sus- and other industries have been closely.
selected, not to protect their then
the then
normal own interests, but to carry had picion, are
lie
not
exactly
13
like a
tho
Ingh
down at the leaders choose to offer is moment. Constant visits are scarcely spontaneous. A rigid demanded
to security head- system of repression and control quarters to explain and re- turns mass emotions on and off explain minor lapses in the web
a tap.
of restrictive legislation. At the moment. the CTY is Why was a servant not "sabotage," and a witch hunt is properly registered three years
offence fully undersood? ago? Is the seriousness of this
in preparation to ginger up
Yet whten I បទទ there
irt
My friend sadly admits
China,
over
in
his
But the months went by without so much as bag of rubies from him then one day 1
a blurred equipment of the petty the production unters by back duction for the Five Year Plan. read that he
In the Party bureaucrat,
advertised at the sessions.
January everyone was obedient- had died. AL
Now In what other country is the theatre, And that is
It looke at first glance like a demanding the liberation of "crimes" and prepares to leave once my speculations returned, I realised with some surprite
Formosa,
Posters and window
other I dined with him the right and my reveries were agreeably that, even standing beside the residence of the President
unmention right
displays caricatured red-faced filled with
night. We talked of retirement prospects of in- car, he remained a mere blurred only unknown but
The Hail of Magnanimity Americans. goose-stepping Even to ask where Mao uned with are lamps Af ono. Chinese territory. Now It's all Modiera, Majores, or ablo? heritance, I even wondered how outline of a man. But now, of Tse-tung lives
South raises sets of
But all around us Doreet. exactly the news would be course, I knew who ho
WOJ.
on a stage, alto the Prest masked end,
saboteurs wary eyebrows.
wore lighting brought to me. 1 imagined I did not speak. His pale eyes
In bombs under factories. And, the neat candle-lit room My guess is somewhere in the dlum of the Congress.
wall
the redwood scrolls sturdy Arabs, on camels laden rested on me appraisingly for a
significantly. unmasked furniture
the select pieces of with gifts, arriving suddenly moment, and I had an idea that all forbidden part of the For- cludes most of the leaders and more
of the figureheads of Com counter-revolutionaries standing blatien City, I picture Mão, one day at my shabby lodgings, his head nodded, as if well con-
trial before the Feople's Courts. Ming and Boong pottery collect
ed over a lifetime. In the Hall itself, packed in kneeling before me, announcing tent. He spoke politely: The the new Emperor of Heaven, munist China.
He will be lucky to get many City's Charm humbly that henceforth I was debt is paid, M'sieur." Then he enjoying
like sime matinee goers, are the per- the Cald of Meknes, or wherever was gone, and I was alone, pale spesial Pavilione beside the spiring, fan-fluttering, delegates. It all spells out a simple of his treasures out of China,
The foreigners who do stav it was, and they my devoted and frightened, in the
darkness
A bell rings. You almost ex- threat-work, or else.
follow
the Communist servants.
nd the storm, beside the
Peking still has a certain be- the overture, but in troop I pictured splendid houris, wreckage of the great tree. washing my feet with rosewater Now, here I must admit that and reminding me provocatively, the last half-dozen paragraphs
Love Is So Very Indigestible!
By Chapman Pincher
seclusion
the Бате divine
the
ornamental Pel Hai lake.
Mock Parliament
for
intruders
some
pect
the
in
line.
The Presidium, juniors first. At witching charm. The kind that. There aren't many and I've
end
the
d of the procession, in used to grip visiting foreigners met them all at one time or this order, Chou En-lal, Liu and becalm them for years. another, The half of the lake, that is, Shao-chi and Mo Tse-tung.
American doctor who Oplum and other now forbidden The beyond the hump - backed A burst of applause, greets pleasures may have helped, but made the Long March with the marble bridge, where armed
Mao. He walks there were also the palaces and 8th Route Army. The American. guards watch
across the stage, stooping parks, the curle and embroi professor of English at Peking the among
drdoping willow slightly, one
hand raised In dery shops in the old city, and University. The American news- Irces. A setting somewhat like acknowledgment. At his in all the timeless haggling with paperman now editing a Chinese,, the famous pattern plates except
foreign langungo publication. A nunong the polite but dishonest dealers. conspicuous sent for the surly young men with members ho stands and claps. Those shops are still open. New Zealand Sinologist, several sub-machine guns.
himself.
Well, that's my guess. I may That is the Chinese
They are better stocked than Britons and Frenchmen. Com- ever, now, bankrupt familles pro
not be right. There are other munist way of saying "Thank disgorging their last treasures, stories that Chairman Mao lives you."
out of town and motors in daily. Stage-managed
to a luxurious office.
We will probably never know.
Their Attitude
Prices are ridiculously low,
Not all of them, are Com-. since no one has money to buy.
But they all fool tha The only customers are meme munists HOSPITAL nurses and students stomach subsided dramatically
bers of the diplomatle corps and need to damn American who are in love are being after his wedding. asked to take part in a medical Dr Hunt also found that while
I have at least seen the great. Then he slumps behind his occasional visitors like myself. perialiam" and support. Com- experiment to find out if the another man was involved in a man.' :
entirely the munist claims. to the monopoly Twice,
in fact. At desk and begins sribbling But It
Jan't
the story 01 peace,
fuze not necessarily any thought of getting married is legal dispute his 'stianach pro- | cossions of the National notes. He seldom looks up curios. I remember
4. Still, it's not! of the eccentric English baronet. giving them indigestion."
„duced, un excessive amount of People's Congress
throughout the session, ack. The me thing happened Getting into this mock parila-
carefully who paused In- Peking on a political viewpoint that makes Dr Jack Hunt, of Guy's Hon while a student was overworking ment is a project is itself for stage managed. The speaker of world tour. Forhaps it was the them stay. Most of them have pital, London, plans to make for-en examination
it is being staged in the Hall of the day ascends the podium and atmosphere that affected him, spent their lives in China. They detailed examinations of their Thom effects are due to an- Magnanimity, one of the Im maps Into the dine cameras, perhaps he was that way love the country and the people. ho came anyway. ho Their present attitude as digestive systems a few weeks xiety which can be caused by perial audience halls inside the. There are no surprises anch
trofalow much a revulsion against the of the Kuomintang: and their weddings kind of mental cubed trends, a copy lok vanished from view for 23 rottenere
Hunt believes, Bo the prospect tourist section, but in the very his speech and a little gh year,
They possib His experiments so far sug of standing at the allur ral nerve centre of Chinese Compasses through the hall so 1200 small hut while als houseboy regime de support for Chine goat" that affairs of the heart may be enough P to upsets m
feel munika
people, dutifully turn the page pocketed the
women although Comminiam isn't i can give you heartburn, by sensitiva stomatal for 'causing the stomach, to sot tree beforehand.
The British Authorlifen stri In vain to contact him. So
formula for pütting too much acid. "They may also But brides cause “cally-wobbles" by, over- penalty(ty al
the barohit's bankier, cu speeding the digestion: rate, cooking rives
Tert on dre«24«y«
who seems to have
mar:
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of the
area
which
the Supreme Polies
oprene will fake up, the - theme, Ý
pacagla) columns, with repo
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