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AND
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VOLUME
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by
V. R. BURKHARDT
Illustrated by the Author
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THE CHINA, MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1956.
THE CAMELS ARE COMING
By HUGH LITTLE
HE residents of four new settlements in the Saudi Arabian desert arc preparing to Blake what must be one of the most prodigious collective thirsts in the world.
This thirst requiring many hundreds of thousands of gul- lons of water a day to quench of It reposes in the throats tens of thousands of camela be- longing to the numerous tribes of Bedʊuli noniads.
The tribes are about to begin their summer evacuation of the desert hinterland where tem- peratures will soon reach up to 120 degrees F. and every vestige of moisture evaporates in search of more hospitable coun- try.
For centuries, the nommels have sought such sanctuary in the fur-distant usic verdant valley of the Euphratis. But for the past Ave years or 50, they have enjoyed a culous" water supply virtually on their desert door-step.
The drift
"mira-
They have had to travel 110 further than to any one of the stations - al
four pumping
Qaistomah, Rafha, Badianah and Turust that are keeping the
all moving through the mighty 1,000-mlic Trans-Arabian Pipe- Biase System.
To provide water for the personnel manning the stations, the oil company opera- wells ting the pipeline drilled
and offered
at each location
to make water nvallable to loen! people.
Bat 20 desolate a piace,
populations are as restiess T the shifting sonda themselves And, naturally, they tend to drifi to wherever
they
easily satisfy their basic
most wunts
of life. So when news of the man-made gases at the pipeline stations clrculated pumping. among the nomads, they verged on these sites by thousands when the dry months set in.
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ICELAND for the ICELANDERS!
Cummings
JEFFERSON
...Light, LIBERTY,
the pursuit 'of happiness
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With as many as ten thousand camels, each able to drink 30 gallons of water at one session,
thousands
goats and a single sheep congregating at station, water must be pumped
I flows clay and night. vast drinking troughs--each
swimming larke as an averagе bath so that hundreds of camels can drink at the same time.
places These watering available to the tribes until the Arst ruins revive the desert and they resume their wanderings.
118 and this is the most significan; espect of the way of by the water We represente:
slightly fewer tribes- trougly men leave the se lements each year than arrived at the begin ning of the hot seuson,
Opportunities
are
In the bustling townships thal the have sprank up arcund Pumping stations, the Bedouins
H
SCANONAVIA
ICELAND
an
RUSSIA
WHO'S HOLDING THE HOT POTATO!
The Icelandic Parliament the whole population is pusseci
last about 160,000. I resolution month calling for the ending of the treaty
The with
United Stoles and the withdrawal of Americans from Iceland.
and
mly
There Was B row of other
rushed up to hangars being finish. They are
for the U.S.
1
London Express Bervice
their bedrooms
without having to toil over to the briefing-rooma breakfast less.
The
£28,000
Americans, who spent putting up The station, offered to make their TV service avuliuble to the Ire lenders-Irce.
All the Icelanders had to do was buy sols and tume in. But the Government w not having
any.
On one pre.ext and an- other, they blocked the scheme. "I suppere they thought DUIT TV
would contaminate their youth," said an offeer ironical-
But the Americans must stay. If the Icelanders decide to
13
ask them to go, the most like-
ly development is that they will cut down the number of alamen they have here,
The United
States may And Navy Neptunes, which maintain If you have got a parrison of itself in the
weeks a 24-hour patrol in the direction 8,000, next few
to send you can afford fuced with an uncompromising of the Arctic -man's-land home a couple of thousand of demand to get out.
with Russia,
them as a gesture. But the Ice- lunders could never There What then?
huge barracks baso. made of concrete, some brand new, others with scaffolding still enrasing them.
will
The real showdown will come ERE in leeland in June, when there will be new
I think the Americans big, under-populated electrons in leeland. The Penta- place which has con. I know, is despondent over have to dig in their toes as we have in Cyprus. For two over- been
indepen the future. For it sees the whole
flank of northern
NATO un riding reasons, dent republic for the past hinged.
America igno- decade or so our American miniously forced out of this allles find themselves con- valuable northern base.
the with
same fronted
which problem
has been challenging 118 British of late.
There is a demand from the population to leave u bose which essential જ the is thought defence of the West.
would not have thought it to find any similarity have glimpsed unexpected possible
between Africa's Suez, the base opportunities of education of
from which we have lately been kerning
semi- skillet 0
und killed trade lending to employ-shroved by Colonel Nosser,
ment
this fishery
truck mechanics, us drivers, machine-tool operators
or building employees.
They have seen how some men measure success in terms of
stable businesses or secure, well- paid employment instead of in the number of camels they may
possess and more of the youngŶT ;
More
or enterprises associated
were
1 was Although thought used to the American way of The Keflavik base is of vilat doing things, I found it hard not Importance 14 the entire to smile when I was ushered in- NATO defence system. While I to the brand new other ranks
Scorpion
was
"alerts"
which
club.
run that
The money
ND as things sland now, they ere on to a wonderful thing crenerically They are making the dollar equivalent of between £5,000,000 ond £3,000,000 1
A cool year from the basein woges
make alone.
(A wallresy who works at the
there F-80 And the Russions hold a good jet fighters shrieked overhead- card in this bass business. They off in response to another of the It has
cost just turned themselves out of Pork-
are constantly £200,000. Its amenities kalu, their own bristling base being sounded 15
most of our British chitby look result of a near the Finnish capital
of radar
something sadly shoddy, and the splendid U.S. base makes as much as a glimpse Helsinki, earlier this year.
which shouldn't be there. auditorium would put most of certain diplomat attached to the our professional theatres to British Legation in Reykjavik, shame. You think the Amrelcans The answer stems to be take a are going to give that away to job as a waitress.) the Icelander?
Now they can turn round with en innocent air and ask what
the United States' newest A-bombers are doing on an in- dependent island.
One fine day
UNTIL Now
it
hos
And get a load of this- the fuel has no trees and
I
no
Iceland
lola of heat. When
on the turned
in top bathroom I almost my hotel ket u toe. Not water, but steam roared out of the top. It comes FICER the hot springs which They show American-filmed furnish water tu most of the
That is really some-
always base has not only its own radio Russians The
have a clever happily turned out to be a station but its own TV station
man friendly civil airliner slightly as wall. snow-bound centre of chap as ambassador
named
Pavel
He of course--but one fine day it thing. Ennoshin. But there it is.
doesn't push too hard, but he might not be. Iceland wants the Americus makes sure that
the Russo- This American base is the shows on the TV, "commercials" hauses of this capital. to get out, about as urgently us Icelandic Cultural Society is do- northern bastion of Western and all. But it's not entirely fur Iceland's volcanoes are thought
Ing its stum.
defence. Take it away — and fun.
to be extinct, but every now Egypt wanted us out of Suez.
the Russians would find it far First thing every morning and then one comes to life. The Russians keep on import- simpler to outflank Scandinavia. they
Allled show the day's weather
troops are sliling on ing "cultural ambassadors," in-
forecast, complete with chart, top of a hot geyser. What are cluding top-ranking musicians. The United States has sunk on the TV screens. That way the you to do when "Old Faithful" Khatchaturian came not long an enormous amount
of pilots can get the picture in decides to gush?
Showdown
the "care
of
the
enormous
generation of Bedcuins are ex- ND supreme irony-one of ago and played the capital and
doing go. changing the spartan monotony A
the main plans for softening the provinces, where the inhabi-money into the base and is still and hardship of nomadic te the blow is that there should be tants swooned with joy. for steady work with the oil in-
As i was motored about the here a copy of the Suez evacua- dustry
Icelandic Government officials fantastic layout, which extends tico scheme, with lealand super- with it.
"We to 25,000 neres, I saw on all sides and main received letters saying. Doubtless there will be many tenance"
Vising
nus were
told the Russians were bulidings going up with tre- thousands of camels and their American bay at Keflavik, with brutes, but after this wonderful mendous urgency io the herdsmen collecting around the Icelandle and foreign tech- evening what are we to think?" sparkling northern sunshine. pumping stations during many nicicus" working side by side, summers yet to come-for the and everything ready for a quick There are quite a lot of Com- There was a gigantle hangar old order changes slowly in the
square feet. return by the former owners "in munists here in Iceland. They covering 138,000 desert. Yet it is changing, all case of emergency" (meaning polled over 12,000 votes at the That makes it the biggest build-
global war).
Remember the same....
last election.
that ing in the whole country.
or Non-U
HOW TO TELL WHO'S 'U'
IN YOUR LIFE.....
choice."
He never gives Medical-U is something It is part of the same snob- cult that makes specialists drugs "by mouth" but "by over and above the tech-
(now called "consultants" in the oral route."
nical jargon which all doc-medical-U) insist on being ad- These are a few examples tors use to distinguish dressed as "Mr" because "Dr" of the special language themselves from the "lay is too common. which distinguishes the public" they serve. This "Post-mortem examination," polished practitioner from need for technical talk, for instance, is now being re- what he regards as
to placed in refined the which drives a doctor medical hack.
use terms like "bi-lateral
It is the professional circum-orbital haematoma" for what you and I would call "two lovely black eyes," is genuine.
Nworth his stethoscope (upper-class)
U
"necropsy."
non-professional to
circles by
It is no non-U as to be almost admit in the medical journals that a certain operation "often causes death." The
La U-phrase "carries a high level" of mortal-
When
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
top-drawer doctor counterpart of tha
We are all more likely to ty." take the advice of a doctor Finally--the U-doctor almost and non-U
who says We have a invariably refers to his earningu. "cures" his patients. He (lower-class) method of "macule" on the face rather as his remuneration." "renders them symptom- speaking
forced to speak of some task for which, as au- than one who bluntly tells which he feels he should be free."
thoress, Nancy- Mitford has us we have n “spot,” or better paid he usne what, in any He never refers to "the pointed out, distinguishes who prescribes "magnesium opinion, in the absurden, phrase
in any U-parlance: "This per beat treatment" but always the pretentious from the sulphato" rather than vico ought to attract ? larger
"he treatment of plain-speaking.
“Epsom salta.”
gee' in the way, he puts its ag
"Cornflakes
taste so much better with brown sugar on, Mummy"
It makes all
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