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THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1956.
Don Iddon's Diary follows the flag to Kenya WILL THE JUNGLE KILLERS
I
GO UNDERGROUND?
Nairobi
I told him I'd never seen A
Bald RETURNED a few Mau Mau and he
So some re- hours ago from the ould be arranged.
cently ptured terrorists were petrifying forest produced under henvy guard, Here in the bush auf and bind a look at members of the the bloodthirsty, witch-doctor- tangled jungle
Fidden gangs. They were 3101 remnants of the Mau Maut, any lot, but stood up abed who terrorised Kenya, hide ently and glowered. in enves and bairs.
the
FTs ę'། 1710 Mat
the Man. brutal of a killer, are on the Thaten hundred are ad rapen 11 at large, although the
- arists Y dama phi more than that
WISH 11.11 to Flat 1 Beitel Almy, the podac
Mau belmat
الف
Late Jack th
Tap 1
15-
iMiel
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It war the tray of 1.1 valersgr-1.
Hallett, [k] Culonel Wol terpaling spouses, 1say, an subaanching Cloveras nent oficial, that I should en
Not knowing what RP ty tim uvedverd -ty14”|,
Only
explain who accompanied the an The Fatal Hosen
Licht
Be is 33, but parliament according to our informants is now a blubbering wreck. We him dead or alive anul went there in a price of £500 on his hend
He might surrender, but this hard core of terrorists who are Jeft don't surrender easily.
Still fear
1 KRW
were
We pushed on to a can of
King's Shropshire Dafortry OLK the edge of the
THE prisoners There Major Tell-fed and strong, although Atalare Fures! Deigto the perfect English
They had unly reeeply been school type, look Over,
wim captured out his area of upern Thus, while h
Lacerta Prally expandet, showed the Us maps with plapenots mark am Pads jantank and Be it of
and euphared
1 coli
$fe and rady ** hove dune wil a whoky and
without the soda, bat
and clubbed to the
andon
This
ww fret conalty," and the major cheer fully but Hene's got much do
Wild life, perhaps Jow
Our patrol
the real thing
TAL 1 not phoney
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Actually
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who LO
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Skaded at hureb
Chattert wacher
Harrington.
11% 171.
then the Tertent
you'll have to watch
This handothe
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Th. M. Man have l The Birt The ahatweg 1 desperately for survival, hyttys
was heche Bedry, thanar
multorus ournal For teal vattle- When our chaps have to lock old fir elephant. Instalo. Phase
"No Thor
--Nest whene
the
d
Happy troops PRIGADIER GENERAL
Arb. waith wan half
water of paletin. ak w kafed unt the jungle which is called 11. forest on fast bereabouts
Aften abant hal
hour's
virove HT me to The
14 Eritr Carujt among the bamboo teves
guard saluted
i
The dgh-ing has by no means stupen During the past few days there have been clushes Inve Bat Willant, but smashed the Mau May for the bre being anyway
we
us the quatlieation because many here fene the Mau Mau have gone unidessgound and whit
evolt and rampage agita,
My frica Robert Buerk,
Something author
terrifying back with marabre details of Cavaler and blowly ath, is hete Aut he tells me. There could be a terrible
Val a11 12 Shangheler.
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have about 50,000 Mou We Mau behind bars, but we
but at trast Kiping the the Kroy or "moderates" and hope they will have learned a Jedible lesson
The Governor here. Sir Evelyn Baring, wit asked me to call on Halm, sud "Obviously we con not keep thousands and thou- Cands of prisote is behind bars
wallera part the barricade undeOutels It does not make And I told wat the mea
I say the Man Mao j
Co of them. Tanese-Corporaline-tenths resten as of now John C.
hand killed a Man wana krake any furvea .. Min just a few days ago
od hum, to twillers and this Shrop life
They It ther Datballs
H
-Where be this happen** asked, wasing my.elf back in New York or the Savoy Grill. Harrington sand 1' was
CUN saht "Near here, good Tesining for the Troops, Three or four miles away 'Th and they liked the work
Clint Wat:. in the bush of len or patrols
learned that one of the last of 12 men o fewer. with native guides and
The Mau Mau leaders, Dedan Kimathi, who is chil at large, dogs, go for three of four days
mesumably aeg here, has gone at a time to hunt the terrorists On the way to the bul talled on District Comm- sinthee Noel Hardy, at Maivasha
Sturdy, a shy, sensitive man. cubedeel sold: Tungs turve
although anal alown DOW here it was very back
Dedon Kimath calls himself General It used Ittel Field- Marshal Sir Dedan Kimathi He has declared the bush to be the
House an Cuverturetat jeg Think he pestiles over his own
Reliability..
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The cost
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when we "Operation Anvil," awouped and rounded up 30,000 suspects, was the turning point,
Some people here, like Air- Commodore Howard Williams (retired), deplore the trend to multi-nation government
black Hams fears "a within two years.
Wi- revolt"
Crities say: "There Just aren't enough Europeans 19 the show
in Kenyn there are more than 5,300,000 Africans as
બી
Europeans ពណ៍ thousand Asians.
against 30,000 ainty Nairo only 16,000 whiles as aguinal Astaus thousand Africans.
The problem Jaun plex
a city of 130,000. has 1 A.Ul}
eighty-odd
IN evin-
At all costs we must pre- vent any further uprisings and
masstert.
The Governor, who intends to
The maintain
stale of emer- "We must have gency, sava!
law and order."
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British, with their fou
high. are mautaining law and order i
which country primitive balewood Beltain enn be proud.
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rethes with bates
AUTOGRAPH
FINGER
HUNTER'S
INDICESTION
RECEPTIONS
SURFEIT OF
MAYORS
PRIME MINISTER
HANDSHAKE
SQUINT
INTERPRETER'S
EAR
DRINKI
Cummingur
"NO, NO, DON'T SPEAK OF AMERICAN HOSPITALITY-I WANT TO DIE IN MY MOSCOW BED"
Sir
Beverley Baxter,
MP, heads
A MOVE TO SAVE THE
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ENGLISH
London were
and there now
Wis
NHE Governor also foul mare This has cost a lot British taxpayer is pouring in
£1,000,000
month. it
Special Branch men, œcurity types, were i what were needed and we have Chern. You can have the best any in the world, but you have to know whom you're
there
a as a protest against Barrie's us real estate. emerges You have to know
cuts which Sa where to shoof,
Cause
across sentimental whimsicalities. geting foformation was
was vital."
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(11 Government opponents
፡፡ common House 1 could not help thank-
calise. A recent example ing thal only 3 year ajto
was the series of debates on Nairobi itself was a vily umier
the death penalty. But now mieste.
where wOBIET a place
with stuns went shoping
In there has arisen 21 their handbags.
struggle in which individual Liberals,
and insignificance, Socialists Tories have formed a com- man front.
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THEATRE
do not I loved goddess of the stage, theatre in London will cease to actors speak!
As one of the owners of the great Macmillon Publishing House.
touch he never loses with reality nor the importance of self-expression. It is because of this amnity to the arts that In our we have great hopes struggle to save the theatre.
Bist
in the factories has been significant. Amil Queensberry tried to flog Oscar tion
Wilde during one of Oscar's first followed by mass production of VERY
that cheeky
nights, and where my own play entertainment,
When the Parliamentary then in the political young fellow. Noel Coward, in 1941 was a spectacular flyp
only a short line life of a country offering his witty ribaldry it is going to the highest bidder budget was
we held an all pamy ahead, meeting in one of the Committee of Com- Yes the fooljighle are going Rooms of the House out ce by me.
mons to which we invited some
I might be argued that in the of of the leading personalities
clash of world rivalries and suggest that
How well the the British theatre.
philosophies the date of the We received wit
from theatre is of small importance. was apt to fluff her lines as
exist. Whether I is New York, and style and sincerity
it is not 80. When Napolean the nurse) in Romeo and of Parls or London, there is and them. In fact, they beat the
he in Moscow was contained Juliet, but she dwarfed the always will be a threatre-going politicians hollow
spent many hours drawing up game, into public, augmented in the holiday star-crossed
the code for the French theatre. At the end it was setcon by visitors from abroad. when Buttheatres will turn more and that
And it is on interesting historic a motion should be
in Paris fnct that the thestre the
nare to musicals and less and down in my name on the Par-
still operates under it. Jess to plays, except when Hamentary Order Paper which the subject
# of a play is uf is circuloted every day to type that excites controversy or MPa. The only reason for choos- has a "shock" value.
ing me us the sponser was be- cause of my dual afliation But it is not even as simple as with Parliament and the theatre. the London Here is the motion Is it duly
new
The question we have to put is this: "la the living theatre worth saving?" If then the answer is "Yes," what does the Chancellor of the Exchequer intend to do about it?
Just to underline the fair- ness of it, the theatre does not have to pay anything at all to the Treasury if no one buys a ticket.
lovers
even
she fottered ou to haleony.
Tails Or Nothing
Therefore
Bi
TeVenue
WILS
to the
the Exchequer.
til
Where are
pattern has
and, after
Tele-
that nt
roads
at their own
decided put
The Response
falling
ali
Vital Difference
O we shall go to Macmillan~
Stories
Sociales together,
with one or two Liberals thrown m, and we shall plead for the life of the living theatre.
We the
shall ask him to remove entertainments tax because It is unfair and because it is de- structive.
THE theatres rang up the erst get their training? The appeared:
long stablished curtain at 8.30 p.m., and never changed. Students go to there were raised eyebrows the Royal Academy of Dramatic in the stalls Art. then to the provincial re- If any chap
pertory companies In Britain we have what wore a dinner jacket instead they have learned in that rough
THAT this House, reallsing is caled "The Entertain of tails. In fact, at Covent school, they invade Lond.
in a dinner
the Importance to the pre- ment Tax." The principle of Garden a man
Unhappily and inevitably, the
stige, culture and well-being of No doubt he will answer that, it has a simplicity which jacket could not sit in the
closing
of down
provincial
the nation of preserving the liv if the tax is taken off, the in- would not confuse even
It
tails a stalls.
or theatres is proceeding at a fast- ing theatre, and noting with con- dividual theatre will not receive
er rate than in London.
cern the continual closing of more. In fact, the only result stage detective. Here it is. nothing.
vision has so allered the habits theatres and music-halls in all would be that the Exchequer When a theatre-goer buys a
the parts of the country, resulting would we can agree that of the British people
get nothing and ticket at the box office n
tax, despite 8 p.m. the trafe on the ntertainment
by theatre mainly from losses caused
would get the same give the box office receipts less enter amount as now. To which we portion of the sum is re its basle unfairness, would have in the country would
that, for tactical to the theatre impression
talments duty no harm
below would reply that the tickets mitted to the ('hancellor of done
and would have brought a useful purposes, the British had aban- minimum running costs, urges would not be reduced in price the Exchequer.
Chancellor of doned the island kingdom.
Her Majesty's Government to because
the ever-rising costs with- necessitate the maintenance of Where once the family made investigate the situation
to the local out delay and, in particular, to the ticket price visit
at its present The vital difference is get all repertory theatre and saw their consider to what extent further level.
the present limited of favourite actress playing Desde closings can be avoided, by cx- that the theatre would mona as if she had never heard tending of Peg o' My Heart (which she range of exemptions from en-
At any rate that is our taske to include duly the tertainmenis the week before,) played
of entertainment in and that is our purpose. And family goes to the local cinema all forms
person if there are businessmen read- Take, for example, the
ally present and performing." ing this who think that our of a recent British musical call- and spends the other evenings which performers
The response was most en- case is not sound, may I ask ed "The Water Gypsies," which gazing at TV.
im- bravely challenged the
couraging. Erom both sides came them this question. How would messages from MPs asking that they like to be taxed on tum American musicals ********
over even if the Anal result their names should be added.
Yet there was one disturbing showed a loss? factor, There were morc Yes--we have hopta, Long and it played to blg DUT the Chancellor of the Socialists than Tories who wont-
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living theatre, may the theatre live to tell it became professionally in- business for eight months. And Exchequer in his ivory tower ed to save the
what the Enancial
was
takes his toll even though the just as there were more Social speech and drama the continu
of the British people terested in the theatre and Peter Saunders, who presented repertory company Is heading Ists than Tories in favour at ng story
abolishing hanging. The Chan- through the ages! for bankruptcy. realised that it was not only it, leat something like £30,000.
Salaries
paradox. celler of the Exchequer, who is the Now comes a form of entertainment but
the of course a Tory, would have to powerful Stege Union While the Treasury robs the custodian of our speech the and the continuing story of "Eqully would see to that. The dying theatre of its last pennies, take that into account, Naver- different theless, we decided to ask the got their agreed rates it takes orchestre
an of Chancellor to receive arts the thoughts and emotions throughout; the Musicians' Unkom view of the imported
mide of the British people.
sure of that, And the opera and ballet. I agree that party deputation.
although **- owner
got his these two arte, of the theatre
European in origin, rental promptly each week. But sentielly
A
Golden Age
But today the lving theatre is a weekly fighting a losing battle of sur vival. To paraphrase the famous words of Sir Edward Grey in 1914: The footlights are
go- ing out one by one"
case
DMITTEDLY, such a tax portation of would have been no great stage! ever since the end of the hardship in the early 19209 Hitler war. It was a costly pro- when, incidentally, I first duction
that have dominated the British Ivory Tower
were
result?
cut- nover
an entirely
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Garden Opern Scotsman named Baird. In up
the end. Whatever Covent the cinema there were silent happens to the others, he al- hand out thousands upon thou-
sands of pounds to ballet films, affectionately called ways wins.
opera and ignore the essentially British form of expression, the drama, in the headre?
"flicks" by the public. The
gramophone had made
One One By
progress and was delighting us with opera stars and
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Man Of Destiny
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POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
DOPAL of
Harold Mac- NO it passes to
millan, that brilliant, unortho- dox, enigmatic figure wito Is being touted as the Conservative Party's man of destiny it, and when, the party needs such being.
song hits from musical AT this point the logical mind life. The Wall de to tie ter him when he was ADC to
comedies,
Не
fascination The undying this island kingdom is centred
Mony Canadians will remem- upon the variety of ile national
Duke Devonshire at In fact he acted might argue that since every as a symbol and cherish
but in tho
to according
tradition theatre in London is presenting own language even though it is Rideau Hall.
and the boss's daughter- the valleys. The Scot dons the kilt married It was a golden age in some current attraction there is spoken nowhere the British theatre. Shaw British drama disappearing.
no danger of obviously
and Lady Dorothy Cavendish, on any or no provocation utters blood-curdling shouts as has a deceptive drawl which is was at his zenith, Gala- Certainly they are doing busi- he leaps bare-kneed into the completely out of keeping with And just worthy was feeling his ners as usual-that is nit of them air. The English sit in happy his penetrating mind.
in the stands os the when his detractors decide that way from the novel to the that are left. The famous Galety play, Knoblock
Theatre is now some kind of a white-flannelled cricketer stube to is a snob, he will suddenly
Scottish form business building. The enormous the ball with tris bat and adds brandah his
at them. trustee Investment · as a Stoll Theatre, built. by Qwear
labourer grandfather nothing to the score.
And now upon this varied Harold Macmillan was an im- dramatist, Arnold Bennett Hammerstein's grandfather, to
into offices. The scene there has come the en- mono alccess as Minister of was failing in his attempts bo converted
St James's Theatre croaching plagte of television Housing-a post which ber in- lovely
Aneurin ⠀ Blavan to bridge the wide gap whore Dickens put on his own the destroyer of conversation, herited from between Hborature and they, where du Maurier charm the enemy of individualism and but he was not at all succes»
M produc- tyl as a Foreign Secretary. drama but even his failures bis generation, where Lord self-expression.
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"Well if 'cultural #k- changes" means that we get the Russian ballet and they get the British Council "I'd say: Str. Anthony's driven' à : pretty shrewd bargain!"