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DON
IDDON'S DIARY
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
1955.
AMERICA'S NEW CARS OFFER A CHALLENGE
A
New York, Tuesday or two. The handsomest motor- ond-a-half television show, "To. MERICANS do not car in the United States, in my gether with Music," Broadway La tho now Lincoln still buzzing over their en- national on,
Continentai Mark 11.
The Continental is the Ameri- ern Rolls-Royce or Bentley. Its
sational sucEESS.
havo A motor show like ours. Instead ench
The critics are still glowing. motor - car
manufacturer
price is $10,000 (£3,070). You "Stylishly magnificent. inti- new modela on cannot puts his
mate, sophisticated, marvel- display separately in the for an American car,
lously expert, adult, a landmark firma" and dealers' own show-
for TV, the best tvær,”
pay more than $10,000
i am acruit, however, that the rooms. This week most of Americans are still indulging in the 1966 models were un- the garlsh and the vulgar. veiled.
more
ever.
They are bigger, flashier,
advanced than You don't do it yourself" any
1
n
Samuel Goldwyn's latest him, saw a new pink Cadillac in "Guys and Dolls" for which ho Broadway showroom with gold-
wheels and a gold paid $1,000,000 for the vereen #poked vidiator grille.
ights, opens here this week.
TARKKILLS The
musical stars
more, the car does it "guid" as an alternative to the Marlon Brando as a hood and
for you.
Almost every American C now being manufactured self-drive or nutomatic
re at
trans- missions. There
least American Automatic a dozen
transmissions to choose from
I was refine depressezi to read reports
from the Brits Motor Show at Earls Colt ther only
British Arm JN offering 18 own system of mul
out
automatic transiniss PIEL.
Endilise this year are offering
wheels usual chrumlum-plated and grijes.
More powerful
TANGINES this year are even more powerful Some frau evilering curs with inutor with over 300 hp. by Ameri- rating Power-steering and power-brakes are avaliable almost all models
and
Jumps AT TH hendlan
not
s big
دا
on
rear the
The 1950 mutiels here would the appeal The rear unds gre British eye enormous, the gobs of chromium
and brighter, the head- bigger
When 1 las! AIA' motor-curs during my visit horie I got myself to a hot contro- probably versy, but after reading reports on the new Belteh models and aceing Amerten's latest, I am not withdrawing many words.
U ARIA tenadeel, an in mci instances the bonnets too short.
There are thousands of British Lasters about here, but the German Vonkewagen has taken the lead In foreign car sales in the U.S.
Are we lagging behand in Br
Industry anels - Ca13"
Dot love and style ve but in adopting engineering de- vetophants which are regarded Even some hergr as routine of the latest taxicabs here have self-changing gears.
How long?
think
have to Buil adopt mare dramatic stream- lines, even jel-propelled styles.
United
Nations
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or Jean Simmons as a singer and dancer with the repertoiro of a strip-teaser,
CUMMINGS IN CINEMASCOPE
1 naked Bir Çedrto Hardwtoks what part he was playing in his neto flim Gabr Sald her Well, as a matter of fact, the name has crcaped me it's not one of my most epoch- making performances. Anyway, you'll find me first on the left on the Cinemascopla sareen.”
Next, Found mici! shaking
hands with jazotuat- ing
Lasite Caron,
Joan Crawford was tented over a typewriter wondering - probably whether she, uti devole hersal to marriage (No. 4) or to her career (after 25 years of it).
After three days of going round the Hollywood studion, of seeing directors losing their hair, producers going white, and cameramen having breakdowns, I come to James Capney and 1 hear him say: "Thank goodness I'm not on TV, the strain there is terriso.”
SOUTHERN SUDANESE SURVIVE AT GUNPOINT
From DONALD
WISE
Kitgum, Uganda. HAVE just driven back into a day banana-land after spending dodging Sudanese Army machine- and gunners and elephant herds
The
cele-seeking out the cowed and hungry people brated
Lonth birthday, of Southern Sudan. but UOTE Wis LOW Kong will it be before we revelry. The headquarters on H
instrosite The wraparound the East River is a much friend- windshield. great boon to ea place than it used to be, visibility which American car
The other day I was surprised jebuduced two years ago? How
To soe Vi
Kuznetsov Jour long before we try out the elec
ing in the delegates' lounge ironik eye which dips the hand-
and How surrounded by admirors, automatically? lights
Mr Jacob Malik a1 the bar ng before the dashboard is cushioned with losun Tuber to drinking vodica. leisen injury in accidents?
41
Ilave we considered atuachi-
Our main, Anthony
Nulling, " distinguished
ng zalety-belt to the front performance. reats as Ford is doing?
·
What with Nixon at 42 and
I ask these questions at the Nutting at 35, this is the young risk of making people angry mum's era is Anglo-American again, but only because I belleve affairs.
We
ore ultra-conservative and
slow to adopt new ideas.
Our
Tire
sports and encing unsurpassedi, luxury limousines
30
Vars
uz
I have been touring the show- ons here during the past day
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OFASPIA
It is a day I shall not easily forget. The cries of the people asking if the British would come back and help them still ring miserably in my ears.
My speedometer flicked up nearly 150 miles long the furnace-hot roads of Equatoria Pro- vince, east of the White Nile,
I spoke to Greek traders, white missionaries, naked spearmen, Southern Sudanese policemen, shopkeepers, and just plain, ordinary Africans I met slogging slong the road from Somewhere to
Nowhere.
All All were frightened. All were hungry. detested the Northerners, whom they call the Arabs.
Over the border
And all--and I did not have to beg the question once all asked why the British lett them at the mercy of the predominantly Northerni
Governmessed
1 crossed the frontier at a point that shall The road is officially closed. I remain nameless. had no permit.
To get one to enter the Sudan from the south you must apply at Torit, where the mutiny broke out two months ago, and which is about 150 miles inside the border.
art
But, in Alice-in-Wonderland style,, you can- not get in to apply for a permit to get in.
So I drove to a point where there is unhappy, nervous corporal and six men wearing the khaki shorts and black slouch hats with black cockades of the Sudan police.
The men are Southerners and the corporal has already done 18 days in Torlt gack-and had savage beatings for talking too much to British police officera on the Uganda side of the frontier.
A bottle of Indifferent sherry, much agitation and hesitation, "d suitable gift, less worried looks, and I was across.
Trigger-happy
SCARED AND HUNGRY,
THEY ASK: WHERE
Northern movement is in mili- harden your heart. You cannot tary convoy.
give them all something. There Omdurman radio boomTIS. out are too many." insulle and cries of **Traitor** Not so long ago Briush dis-
British trict officers were working in at Basil Duke, the last District Officer in the Sudan, Equatoria: Judge their efficiency who is now stationed at Moyo by that question thrown at me on the border in the West Nite all day long"Can the British district.
como and help us?" Two more corps of troops are Remember the life and hard being recruited in Khartoum to times of the Southern Sudanse deal with a worsening situation. today by the
of an remark Meanwhile Over
the border important Southerner who made picked Equatoria Governor - General Irresistibly of Malaya under the stream the fugitives a carload myself.
Tago Abdul Aziz explode with up a Japanese occupation.
"But," saya handsome Robert when he told him: "Put one Yates, of Rothesay, Scotland, British District Officer back in at Tort and in the South will be the young police inspector Atlak border post, "you have to peace."
ARE THE BRITISH?
The face is that of Reporter DONALD WISE, Bod
the situation Ex Love in his graphic cable;—
bo
BRITAIN and Egypt, who jointly governed the Sudan 54 years, agreed to Sudanese self-government tri 1953.
The country of nearly 1,000,000 square miles has nine provinces-siz fr the North (pop. about 8,500,000, mostly Moslem) and three in the South (pop. about 2.260,000, mostly pagan),
predominantly Northern Government was returned at a General Election and inaugurated on January 1, 1954. That began a three-year period during which Sudan is to Choose full independence or unton with Egypt.
The hand-over of Administration, police, and defence was completed last summer. A small force of British troops is still in the Sudan, but no Briton or Egyptian holds any influen- Ital post.
On August 18 a mutiny at Torit of Southern police sparked off a general revolt in the South, Northern troops were sent down to contain it.
JUBA / SUDAN 4.000 TROOPS HELE
REPUCHES STILL FLEING OVER BORDER
TONT
#quatoria
ATIAK
*KITIUM
UGANDA
MERS
The
accepted daily rallon seems to be one cupful of grain and a little water,
It has been a dry wet-season and the boreholes aro almost their exhausted. People with own smallholdings have a little food, and those in the towna for less:
I hate to imagine what it will be like when the dry neeSON sets in with temperatures up to 120 degrees at midday.
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They flee
Martial law and the centuries- old battle of the drought and disease make a monstrous com- bination
The frontier belt is alive with refugees dodging army patrols
down newly, sent
to bar the bolt-holes into Ugando,
In this village where I write
000 refugees have been fed by the Uganda Government.
Of the 183 fully-armed Sudan Defence Force deserters
who
It's a pain
to be proud of
THE greatest bores of
all are people who talk of nothing but But their own illnesses. what happens when a doctor talks about his personal ill- ness?
Then the picture changes entirely. For a doctor does not load us with a 'mass of
detail irrelevant
to BX-
by Dr. Bellamy Hobson
*Dr Morton had three opera tons. One was by the late Lord Moynihan, one of the greatest surgeons of his time, and an- other was at the famous Mayo
have been interned by the King's #ggerate his trouble and Cinic in America, He is com- African Rités at Gulo, 40. have gain sympathy. Instead he petent his wordlet is that is
back,
to judge the results, and
•
'and doesn't
mond
alipped away to find their is able to compare his case. L families and try to bring them with others and regard the your uicer has given a lot of
trouble thing objectively.
Baglly, the modern operti At least six are known to And out of this something ton of partial gastrectomy is a have been captured by the may emerge that con help godsend but you are likely to NorthernerS, What happened fellow sufferers. Many of our continue to have bad digestion to them is not known.
most successful' and, if you don't want more look Lomlluk Lokida, chief of the specklets me themselves vie trouble, you'll have to tall, naked Letuka tribe, escaped tims of the diseases wish which aber the thing for the rest of Into Uganda from Torit gaol they specialise. By being both your life.. After a time a man would sarles and hospitals. They have two nights ago leaving only two doctor and patient they of Sir Heneago Ogilvie once
appear smiling. Mostly they stopped all social services.
spoke a few words of English
and seemed glad to do so.
leading and
have
tribal chiefs working under the two points of view instead
said: "All the best people Northerners in the whole of one. There is no petrol, there is no
More than a million people have pepile-ulcers the ablest, Equatoria telephone service or post, there... What does the future hold for Britain suffer from duodenal the most hard working, and the is a shoot-on-sight curfew.
these friends of Britain?.
ulver. One of them is a doctor, most conscientious members of The fear of the Arabe raiding who had no fewer than 30 the community."
Duodenal mufferers. fre the Juba guol is crammed with their countryside for daves is as haemorrhages. Out of this
And it diMcult to political prisoners, mostly as yet alive as it was in the nineteenth wealth of personal experience types that untried. An unknown number century,
ho has written a book full of relax, dimeult to delegate their first-rate advice of Southern Army and pollen
impos dor fellow work to other people, sufferers.
alble to watch the clock. They are tense, go-getters - En fact, just tho sort of people we need. tenacress But it is this, very
Igestions which upsets their dis and leads to uletes.
In the back of my ear I had tins of food which I dispensod With a white flag flying in wherever posable. Everywhere cowardly, fashion from my car I heard the same story, got the roof the accepted precaution same questions. against trigger happy
Did I know the Nairobi tele- Askaris have been summarily patrols, adopted by the few re-
number of Archdeacon, shot, maining white missionaries I phone
Shaw. Central Missionary drove alone over the Unyama River and up the hillside, into Society chief? Equatoria
army
7
Could I tell this naked man At first it was difficult to see driving two ridiculously small anyone. The Northern reign of goats where Bwana Smith or terror has taught the Southerners Jones (for whom he had once that it is safer to dive out of worked) lived now, and would sight into the tall grass then I ask him to help the people? stick around and be questioned.
the
Anyone found wearing presentable shirt and trousers is whipped off and arrested under suspicion of being a looter.
The reprisal
Forbidden
It is unlikely that any children will be sent back to school, if
for this reason,
and
GRADED UP
In this 1914 war this doctor was medically unfit for foreign rervice; in 1939, at the of she became a naval magcon
when they are reopened, served -for the
duration.
-
GETTING ON
Treat the ulcer as, "you" may, you will not alter its ow temperament. The answer, as Dr Morton rightly says is that a man has to learn to live with
shoot them, that they are thole Governor-General of the Sudan, to. Torit,, and somewhere near is: a“ pretty, game, manj but he proper corrective. In real life, his ulcer, to give - it, what · IL
One splendid mountain of The Sudanese Army goes to man who had probably served in the King's African Rides, persuado
I nosed carefully up the road asked me point blank why the great pains to Southerners that they will not
Sir Alexander Knox Helm, had Magew spotted the green and friends. They are just not be not come South to see what was red cockaded hats of the Sudan
Force Defence
Around going on.
machine-gun. mounted" truck.
Hoved.
The roads are overgrown.
burne saw empty villa villagos.
There wore abandoned small bodings' with the crops choked women and children with weeds, or gone to seed, murdered.
There was little or no food to
What
IS going on? Nearly 1,000 people are known I slammed the car into
August, when
:
The Southern hatred of Most of his life he has been a North appears as implacable us
ship-surgom--and ti your, idons the Arab-Jew antipathy, on the of that trade are based entirely Gaza strip.
Arabi Abdul Basit, Northerner on a recent flen i might be District Commissioner in Torit, pod thing to read this book as
and adulterous ship likea
to having out his assistant, a drunken
humour it, so that
it will leave him alone and minds
Many
patients when told, let him get on with his work. Southerner, round his area, in surgeons do oot long survive his read. He sleeps
It does not mean that he can- under his they have a duodenal ulcer, niti loaded automatic on a
Billow.
doctor. their
“Must” I have all not enjoy life, cannot go to lạ what he thinks of the this diet and medier Can't banquet. It does mean that he
avoid a few food I go and ba've
drink on an empty Food?
proferably not drink
.
the
shouldn't
to have died since the mutiny bush ́and #lipped away quietly, 39, Tho Uganda, Netlogini Colva par / and get eld-or de grand cut out, atost
Northern This was, probably the platoon Party, once bellowing in full ƒ It. is'. motoethnos, dificult to all should's have his "mbals;
that, that thing lays at all explain werd of one second lieutenant and 20 volco for unity, with the Sudah beri bennessy ka all that; ; that regularly, get proper'sleep,land:
men living in thym
down
remains of of the whole Upper Nile Valley,
a the matter.
can be very good indeed, there, butter of him, There are now 4,000 troops been burned very but is now most noticeably allout on while the maults of operation rovers lot this: temperat be and by the markorta There based on For a roodon lost soul for the North claims to have is a Amall risk of dying undes Read this book if you have rounded up all but a few the operation, imrid. facratiter an ulcer. Not only is it a fine
having Yarn, of a man, who had n wing nothing worth buying in the town from which all the divilima GVTORST
I had do wish to see the inside mulineers (they acuit, 700 ure binger, chiante) or will
ila and eume, out on shops
have fled into the
of a Torit gaol, I wanted to get in gaol) and maintain that there trouble out and write this debutchi fan man - only “80; rides missing" in 198
Sheaths How to
Where I thought I had spotted nekvily, for the revolady BOMBOLS GAVIN into the bistan, VENEERING TAOMIGAT would stop, la Lightinvalgsreise, 14 They have stopped
that
a in the forbidden military
your trou