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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1955.
Ella Maillart
curious no
•
) is
Last of the lady explorers more
✩ It's a worn-out old face, she says, It has seen
ELLA MAILLART-" Writing is a sighimore
VICTOR PLANS TO WALK THE CHANNEL!
By GAVIN GORDON
THE winter's
peace, divers
Brussels. In
from men the best salvage vessels have a way Df undercutting The market and getting the best jobs.
Time sor a walk, Victor
van Lent told me. The sca "I'd like everybody to know he is quite sure of this- Eelgium's divers are the best in is at its warmest then.
the world." said Viclar. "Alter
when he talked about fl solo
T
HE "lady explorer" is
80 many places.
by ANNE SHARPLEY/
They write to ask me to take them along. First I tell them I have no money, hardly enough for mysel. Then I say to them
Just go,
If you go, have to travel you will do Life is cheaper on the go than at home.'
disappearing breed. Mary Kingsley waving her rolled-up umbrelin at at. tacking leopards, Rosita Forties penetrating "un-
footing it into the secret places known Saudi Arabia," Freya of the world. She was the fira! Stark in Luristan, Gertrude European to visit the Gogain- Bell in Bagdad. Solitary kund, the sacred Lake of
Religious on the Tibetan-Nepal minded, single-minded,
frontier. drawn by the hot sands, She 19 in London now tu empty spaces and "forbid receive the Sykes Medal from things are expensive,
Central Aalan
*
den cities. And perhaps a little by the distinction of being "first white woman to..
the
Royal
Society.
The medal
the
The medal, she feels. Ix Now we are too modern, undeserved. except for perhaps a man's bicycle Pipe-lines across the desert "pioneering on is Katmandu."
красен that the lady ex- plorer was first of her sex tu conquer. Airplanes and helicopters suggests casier method of explora- tion.
an
This is the age of the large, well-equipped expedition.
But for Ella Madlari, Aged 52 new. She has a life of exploration behind her ard another one before her
Coes alone
She goes andeemer. 4 8.311- plicity Ard currently she goes on a bicycle.
It was 1930 earned that she crossed The Kizi Kum Desert in Decemjer theone
And it was ca a camel meatly that
made she
ther amazing journey in 1934 from Peking to Kashmir with Peter Flem
Three thisand Ave hundred itles. Seven months
The cost of living. 1, seems, in the remnələr fastnesses hus not gone up. "When I travelled through the desert with a sack
cur it was cheap and it is stili cheap. It is when you travel in the modern way that
people want
"Nowadays
put before them. expedition belong to the Keneration travellers that goes alone."
211
I
of
She
goes alone now, however, no longer out of curiosity out of necessity.
bul
the
I have a hille hu in mountains neai the Matterhorn
"When I pedal up tu the und am perfectly happy, If I Deltish Embassy 1973 iny bike had enough money I probably
tell
wuld not travel any more, I they don't like it, you," she
with would
Just enjoy myself look- laughter.
ing at the view from my hul."
says.
I can ronring
It needs courage kự do it. They are People laugh at you
people and to seeing while behave with dignity. When they make
a remark 1 tell thein You talk about demoeracy. This is democracy."
Perhaps her
striking likeness to Beaurier Lillie has something do with the laughter 410 provokes.
New values
Why Is this?
"I have come to the end of curiosity. I have fulfilled my desires.
festation.
"Curiosity is a youthful mani- When you reallar that in chasing thrill after thrill you are really trying
from yourself then to away
She has the sume drollery. The same stile emp nailed the back of her head (except drap that curiosity. that hers at two shillings Kabul, Afghanistan, 15 years
The same olstering me ugo). sanile.
to
run you
1
ved for five years us A Findu in India and I helped of to secure values.
a new seILSE
laughs When she
Men breaks into whirlpools wrinkles.
Jure
So now Mlle. Maillart goes to of Asia to make money,
"It's a worn-out old face. has been to and seen
8
11
many wink
"I like to work only three manths of the year, I hate well- it is a nightmare to me. ink. But books and lectures ure Way I nist make money afford to live.
She was the sort of girl who places." Then she will
net 50 dollar-and disappear-
cd to Rues. 10 walk
Caucasus in otkudde.
Her achievements range from making
appearaners
outrageously and laugh.
Strong hands.
Yet her
strong
$tile
Jouts
Olymp e skling and have liver lacquered nails and hockey for her native Switzer- her shoes fres elegant anic! land to appearing on the Paris pointed. Magt.
in her latest bock, La
the Sherpas," she is still Arst-
SIX
And then will go on to de- plore the lack
enterprise among young people now.
the
At last she has Jound the serenity to live in and inve the Europe she once hated and ran away from. -
"Ásla helped me to under- stand more about Europe than tld ever have done by re- maining here."
{COPYRIGHT)
WHO NEVER
REACHED
HOME
By Hugh Lunghi
is now DVPF Aix +▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ELEPE) only conclude that similar letters they Fud themselves received months since the S- It is now over six months had als been dletnied under viet "Committee for since the Soviet "Commition pressure. Return to the Homeland" for Return to the Homoland”
But what probably roused the Kravest doubts in their minds was founded. Judging by was founded, yet when the about going bark wea that iney the broadcasts from The Communists lay hands on were made to provide incrimina- Committee's
special anyone who scoms eager to ting
evidence
about fellow radio station it hus had return home, they im- countrymen who had returned. For example, while they were Home success during this mediately dash any hopes awalling repatriation, another period. People are 'brought that lifo in Russia has family named Sokolov were
Own
to the microphone to relate bacomo normal. In this given a much-publiclaed send- off to Russia. On the next day how happy they are that article, Lunghi tells how the others were thoroughly in- they have returned to the the Communist authoritios terrogated at the Soviet Con- Soviet motherland after treat those who think of sulate about the life of the
✩ *
years of "misery" in the returning to the U.S.S.R. Sokolovs in Germany.
West. They are sure, they say, that their compatriols
It is not clear why the So- still abroad will live as What they experienced on their vict authoritics should want way back convinced them that such information about those "freely and happily" 48 This was wishful thinking. who have already returned, it, themselves if they return. This group of people was as they say, "mistakca" are for- And then is one thing which composed of 34-year-old given. The reason la probably every single one of these broad- Yevgeni Nemov, his wife and not unconnected with
a my- casts Inesis upon. They all say two children, and two
sterious condition laid down in single that no one need have any frar
men, Leonid
and the latest amnesty deeree Kharcvich whrisoover that he might be Boris Sercbryakov, After being collaborators with the Germans punished in any way come aken under the wing of the
and those
who have worked in even bluntly
the phrase Soviet authorities
East
"anti-Soviet organisations ini forced labour on his return.
all the
the wer." The latter Berlin, the group saw
for-
iwin," said one Idthuanian.
broad-L these
for
since must
We were Lining of Victor's
all, they called Lindberg crazy Anyone in the West who says Jamillar trappings of Communist atone for their "mistakes", đêm
so is apparently a liar. "In the plan to walk the Channel, one of Atlantic night; and I guess I'm Soviet Union mistakes are the few feats of exploration and no madder than he wos." staying power left for Man to
So far Victor has never spend achieve. It will mean, says Vie-
than half a more
day below the lor, saying under water at least surface. This is one of the re-
whole two
days and nighis, gulations for divers; and a long without an interval
for sleep. plunge, with plenty of move- And, whereAS the distance as ment in it, raises new problems. the crew lica is only a bit over One of the most important is for twenty milta, Victor expects his the boat to bu in close touch course will be about ity miles, with the diver and to know at
I can't tell ull I've had Unit
neo moment's notice where he ist
to
study the maps," he said. for his bubbles, even if they "My average depth will be any- Cine up near the boat, will by where between 10 and 130 feet, that time be a long way and even in daytime it's pretty the diver.
dark down there. So I've got to
map
me
KEY FACTOR
from
So full arc cagis of reassurances SCOTC that one
m
clares officialdem.
the decree, by some sort Above all there was the of service to the motherland. familiar Agure of the secret The Soviet authorities
want evidence of res with armed police officer,
13
activities" to put to submachine-gun, who WIS
Soviet
extra those from whom accompany them to the border pressure on
parvices, on this and to whom all their personal they demand such cannot help documents were handed over..
What exactly these services are thinking that they do "protest
has not been specified. But at too much." Of course, there is
icast two of the group which no doubt that fear of what the
Thon there Were the
long did
not reach Russia wero Soviet authorilles may do to interrogations by the secret specifically requested by the So- someone who has lived us some
a police. Naturally they ware vich intelligence organisation to free individual abroad the asked about
Soviet emigre return to Western Germany main, if not the only,
organisations reason political
in spy on
their fellow emigres. But they were also one of these was which prevents many hundreds Germany,
Nemov, on of thousands of Soviet citizens Interrogated about individuals, obvious choico, since his family from returning to their coun- about their friends and fellow was to be sent back to Russin a course which steers clear
countrymen Hving in the West, of all the known How Victor solves this, and try.
ES hostages for his good be- wrecks and eli the
Is this fear justified? No one and they were asked to supply havlour. trickier a number of his other 'prob- A
of lists of addresses. Recher potholes. Then, if I can get the lems, will depend on finance. can really tell yet because,
ticket sea-bottom currents behind me Another problem is the cold. coure the
back
the to tactlessly,
polico accrot and they're different from the As hour follows hour it gets Busstakes may indeed be for them because they had not one-way ticket, officers even got angry with ones near the surface-It's quite colder and colder. That's why M possible. I
given in
In post-Stalin Russia. brought lists with them.
citizens they Werx ex- better winter,
sca is unikkely that
will be pected to have known
said the officers. himself well given the opportunity to
of mak-
Nemov wha mnd to sign a first dive when he was 20. Very ingged in electrically heated ing the BAMO
prepared statement accusing sh second time. In other words, no other Russian Iving in Munich however is one is allowed to leave Russia of murdering a fellow country dashed their hopes that life in 1949 that he achieved his amble the food problem. tion of becoming a professional' exemple, no way in which a back there.
some Soviet
- There were diver. He «rcilled' · down near diver can get his hands to his trans had a forotaste of how the were, for ample; given, for, the`: Rifmilan :"pultoritles "to | days ago some
when words were put into then if things weep normal in Antwerp and has dismantled
Lac's
through the helmet, Victor
mouths by the authorities Russle there would be no need wrecks and searched
Communist authorities. plans to have his food, oh his the
run cargoes in the ports of many back, in baxe, and it will all be treat those who return head prepared scripts to record for
special
ecial campaign or to Each bag will have 曬 people nearly went back to broadcasting by the radio station set up racial committed to
people to return The trouble is there aren't tube connection coming Inaldo Busda-but not quite ey of the "Committee, fon Retum permude GenBugh" "WICKY. What's more, the helmet, and Victor will be said they had been. Impressed to the Homeland. They were Russia, would be open even in Belgium waters where able to choose tube and by the "Geneva spirit and bad (also
A
an hour" hay, average a mile Victor wants to do his walkBut it.is, to say the least of it. Soviet
FIRST DIVE
when tho
. Even so he perversely warm.
Vietor, who to just 33, did his plans
soon after this ho was deported cushions,
to have
anyone
A
After this preview of post-
prising that the little group of six fled back to Western Ger many on
the very day they were to have been repatriated.
The Blovict officials who re- ceived theso Russians eager to "return to the homeland"
Stalin Russla, it is hardly bur
by the Nazis'; 'arfd ̈It wasn't till. The key factor here is, for again once he has been enlload man in oxiled ather, occasions, Russle had, become bormal. But
countries.
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