THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1956.
THE CHINA MAIL OFFERS YOU HERE A SOPHISTICATED THRILLER-BEGINNING TODAY
Diamonds are
are Forever
"AMES BOND pleked up the jeweller's glass from the dosk and managed to fix it securely into the socket of his right eye.
Although it was late July and the room WDS bright with sunshine, M had switched on his desk light and tilted it so that it shone straight at Bond.
Bood picked up the brilliant- cut stone and heid it to the light. As he turned it between his Angers.
all the colours of
the rainbow flashed back at him from its mesh of facets until Cyc wins Aired with the dazzle.
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He took
by
IAN FLEMING
Meet James Bond, secret agent Meet M, his boss
And get ready to meet a woman
you won't forget...
beside the dazzling translucenço
"Not
Just the
bdilions of
out the jeweller's of the diamond, and the rain- money involved, or the value nas and tried to think of bow colours he had seen a few of diamonds as a hedge against something appropriate to say. minutes before were now coarse inflation,
the sentimentai M looked at him quizzically and muddy.
fashions 221 diamonds for "Fine stone?"
Bond put down the plece of engagement rings and so forth. "Wonderful," suld Bond, "It
understand must be worth a lot of money."uartz and gazed again into the He said one must
"A
pounds
fow
heart of the diamond, Now he the passion for diamonds. the could understand the passkızı
of an For the next quarter hour M led him
through the
cutting." nald M dryly. "It's a bit of quartz, Now then, let's try again."
Bond picked up the second sample.
Ho screwed the glass back into his eye and held the stone, if it was
atore
to the light.
up
uris time, he thought, there Turis
could be no doubt about it
aiso This stone
bad the 32 faceto above and the 24 below of the brilliant-cut, and it was niso about 20 carats, but what held had a heart of he now blue-white flame, and the in- finite colours reflected and re- tracted out of its depths lancel into iris eye like needles.
With his left hand he picked up the quartz dummy and held beside the diamond in front
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a lifeless of his glas. chunk of matter, almost opaque
whole range of diamonds down to a wonderful roles of colour- ed stores, ruby-red, blue, pink, yellow, green, and violet.
0
aut diamonds bad inspired through the centuries, the almost sexual love they aroused among those who handled them und cut them and traded In them. It was domination by a beauty so pure that it held a kind of truth, a divine author - liy before which all other material things tumed, like the FINALLY, M pushed over tilt of quartz, to clay.
packet of omaller stones, all flowed ur marked
or of poor In these few minutes Bond cokmur, "Industrial diamonds.
din- Nol what they call *ger understood the myth monds, and he knew that he quality. Used in machine tools would never forget what he had and so forth. But don't de-
them.
America bought suddenly been inkle the heart spise at this tone.
£5,000,000 worth of them jast chair, year, and that's only one of the meant inarketa.
it was were
other
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at
his
Bond glanced down watch. It was 11.30 Bund pleasure of the thought with
In-try piled with Top Secret Ive had gladly oban- dockets doned when the red telephone had summoned Hum an hour belore. He felt fairly confident that now he wouldn't have to deal with them.
"I guess it's a job," the Chief of Staff had said in answer to Bond's inquiry. The Chief days he won't take ily more calls before Inch and made an appointment for two at the Yard Step on it."
ND Bond had
he's for you o'cluck.
M sol buck In his "That
what Jacoby when I had lunch with him the "Bronsteen told
me the Diamond stones day at
that Like these
reached fur Corporation," he said. "He mid used for cutting the St Gothard his coat, and had
gone into Lf I Wig Hoing
ket tunnel. At other end of the
the outer office where he was that
dentista bus!- scale,
use them for
his involved in the diamond
pleased to
accretary In another bulky registering ness I ought to try to under- drilling your teeth, They're the stand what was really at the hardest substance in the world. Ble with a "Most immediate" bottom of it all.
Last for ever."
tab.
to
GIVING UP SMOKING
By Gerald Allen
I give up smoking. All
2
i told
little will power. myself, and 1 shouki save pounds a year-enough to buy two new suits. It seem
I
500
you're
"M," said Bond as she looked up. "And Bill says it looks like a job. So don't think going to have the pleasure, of shovelling that lot into in-tray. You can post it off
for all I the Daily Express
care." He grirmed ather.
"Ion that chap Sefton Delmer a boy friend of yours, LAI? Just the stuff for him, I expect."
I
She looked at him apprais- Ingly, "Your tje'a crooked," she Isaid coldly. “And anyway
hardly know him." She bent lover her
registry and Bond went out and along the cor- ridor and thought how hucky the w to have A beautiful
accretary.
ate two bars of chocolate and a There was a creak from M's
cake,
(ICTOSS swallowed half-a-chair and Bond looked
later. He'd born up all the letters crossed on the desk. "I'll tell
effects of the u.
to
"They my America," said M. **And agree with them. It's diamond by far
biggest
of markol. And those gangs theirs are the only people who could run an operation on this scale."
"Why don't the mining com- pantes nop it?"
everything
dune "They've they can,"
M. "You said probably saw in the papers that
look De Beers
on our friend Sillitoe when he left M4.5, and he's out there now, working in with the South African security people.
"I gather he's put in a pretty
and Comic drastic report
up
with plenty of bright ideas for
but tightening things up,
the the Treasury and
Board of Trade aren't very impressed. They think the thing's too big
MONDAY:
Breaking
The
Chain
to be handled by a lot of separ buyers at the monthly showings ole mining companies, however of the efficient they are. And, they've got one very good reason wanting to take official action on their own.”
"What's that, Sir?"
less.
Diamond Corporation. But for the tast three years
and for they've bought less
Although, as you say, they seem to be selling more and more Jewellery every year. Must be getting thetr diamonds from somewhere.
who
the Treasury "It was brought their nume up a!
THERE'S "THER
a big packet of our meeting the other day. Bu smuggled stores in London. I can't find out anything againsi at this very moment," said M. them. They've got one of their and his eyes glittered across the biggest men in charge over here, desk at Bond, waiting to go to Seems odd, as they do so little America. And the Special business. Branch know who the carrier is to be. And they know who's to
TURNING POINT OF POLICY
Britain Will Not Retreat Further
By JAMES
PARKENDEN.
UTSIDE · Cyprus the retrenchment in political
violence sparks high thinking, a slumber of ideas and an awakening of 'the' traditional feeling. But among British firmness, in all ranks of the island's ripening corn Britain..
chief spokes
force for
felds, the yellow mustard Both aspects were displayed and waving poppies, there is in the recent debate on Cyprus. The Labour Party, so rocently usually a dreamy quist.. on the war
In the dusty lanes was quiet, path after Eden, Cypriot youths with close man, Hugh
frogman debate, plodding donkeys, staring it was left to Mr R. T. Paget, at an occasional Land Rover QC. Labour, to volco-a moro
wire Tory sentiment speeding past with a netting stretched over the Eden's backbenchers had pro- claimed. It was the govern- back to stop bombs,
menl'a duty, he said, "to govern soca but and have the guts to govern," In these words he put simply
clipped hair sit hatride Gaitskell, did not
Many troops
than
Overs
they move about with cheerful keen faces guarding small the core of many of the policies camps in beautiful scenery. In farmed in the back rooms of the towns there are more signs Tory life since the war, It was war--chuttered warmly applauded on both sides shops and empty streets. But of the House. except for the flashes of
of the unisten
violence
the air of Mediter-
ranean languor still prevalls.
Time To Stop
Only at the airfield is the at- So this may mark a turung“ mosphere permanently efficient point, and it would be wise for and military, Wire netting and whose outside of Britain to note The retreat from her grilles are everywhere, bayonets well.
dogs, regulations interests has so long been a and tracker and searches.
future of British policy abroad Since late in 1935 when the that a time has come to stop. military forces were reorganised So the House seemed to say. and the EOKA challenge taken up, the chief suffering of the island has been economie.
Gently Smoking
The slowing
of trade has
The
same mood coloured the negotiations on Singapore, in which the Colonial Secretary look
D hard-headed but not hard-hearted attitude towards
Mr Marshall.
This does not mean that no
affected shopkeepers more than further attempt will be made deadlock. others. But many householders to solve the Cyprus
are already signs that an on the island see little difference may be made through
Thera
to their previous life.
which on
Foreign This contrast
of sporadic NATO,
Minister Selwyn Lloyd is now ferocity with the rural calm and ageless panorama of the engaged in discussion.
on the farms changing season
The possibility still exists of is reflected in Britain 100,
fresh consultations with Turkey For the Cyprus issue has be-
But then with Grobce, normal in British politics, the keynote come
from the British like an en point of view Emoking
gently
will be reallen. foobled volcano that everyone the value of Cyprus to Britain Icela SUTO will never now and also to the West will not explode.
and
be obscured by the actions of The chief reason for this is those who would break Euro- the wearing effect of time itself pean unity. It is now at least In which there has been no certain that Britain will uphold. effective means of challenging that value and, until a better the government's polley,
arrangement emerges, will stay Another reason has been a
to govern in Cyprus. deep-stated, and growing mood
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ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY
WORRIED ABOUT
YOUR TONGUE?
By CEDRIC CARNE
'HEN Mr Gibbs put out onzemia it is frequently red and
Since
was furred. "Are you in the engue tends to occur in respira- tory infections, in local infections "Man called Rufus B. Saye habit of looking at your of the mouth, and in any fever. go out with him to keep an eye in Linches every day at the doctor. I always examine it for should I say we of
Nothing much known
about tongue?" I asked. "Oh, yes,
children do not smoke on him.
American Chub
Piccadilly. "As soon as Romle Vallance Plays golf Sunningdale. I know it's the scoreboard a furred tongue with them is of camt across the story-It Doesn't drink or smoke. Lives of health. And that's why be due to an infection-typically was leaked to one of his narks at the Savoy. Model citizen.” I've asked you to come to tonsillitis or one of "the" "infec- in Soho, to one of his Squad' as he chooses to call it --he went straight off to the Treasury. The Treasury talked
'Ghost
at
★ ★
much more signilleance." It may
see me it's been coated lous fovers. now, on and off, for some "Yes, yes," Mr Gibbs saldim-
1
NOT A CAUSE
AST week, I decided to suspreted he wasn't feeling quite
give up smoking. All up to the mark-been smoking, lock
too much, probably but main- dozen aspiring to keep the authe table at the man who held thined a dignited alenco.
at bay, and just carried on slog- a great deal of his affection and
all his loyalty and obedience. That evening, I didn't feel too ging away at my work.
The boss was in bad mood and Molly and I had grand,
I awoke after lunch. He hadn't had 2 words. Next montiing. with a nasty taste in my month, cigarette for twenty-four hours, and felt glad I'd stopped smok- and was a nervous wreck. Seem
"The point is," M PAUSED
he went on unemotionally, ed incredible that I'd never ing. My tongue looked awful, as ed to think it was my fault, and
strongly advised mo to tako. "I've got rather a tough assign- thought of the idea before. it was.
my "damnool|ment for you,” what he called When the other fellows
ideas" elsewhere.
M put his pipe down and on the train heard about it,
He called me in again, an trour leaned forward with his arms they were inclined to chaff THE chaps on the train were full
to the Board of Trade and then M SHRUGGED his shoulders, time. Of course, I wouldn't patiently, "but what about my me. They said it was only Lucas, a very sensible type as a
worried if I had some arred tongue? I'm not a child. of childish jokes, and even I'd written in the morning, and you the story and then you can both their Ministers formed up "But the diamond business be
But Nor have I a fever, for I've taken to the P.M. And the P.M. gave is a nice, well-regulated sort of digeative upset. was smoking a cigar as big as a decide whether you wurst the first morfiing and my rule, refused to believe I was al- telescope. Made me feel quito take it on.
my them authority
temperature already,'' It to use the family affair,
an haven't. I just can't account must be caused by something. and there's resolution wouldn't last long. ready feeling the benefit of my queer -- must have been the
Service.
impression that the House of for this coated' tongue." "A week ago," said M, "one
Do you think it could be dủa 19 But I could see that they abstention.
Diamonds has an awleward look On the
"The only way to get to the about it. way to the office
my teeth? of the high-ups in the Treasury
Nothing more than Mr Gibbs's association ot were secretly impressed.
Brought with bottom of the business is
to that." bought some wine gums to chew, I was lato leaving the office, came to see me.
fured tongue with digestive up- Scott, at the office, bet me and that as Scott bad to ask and when I got home Molly said dm the Permanent Secretary follow the pipeline to America I couldn't keep it up. I whether I'd swapped smoking she might just
It had and son where it goes to there, well have to the Board of Trade, Os
Bond decided it was time to pots is a common one, though not
I examined them and foundă. diamonds. Seems And the F.B.I. won't be much put the 64-dollar question, "And based on fact. Nor is a furred. laughed.
for drink. The sweets were married a night watchman, and to do with
call help to us I'm afraid. It's a where do I come in. Sir?" he tongue linked with constipation, than in excellent condition. "Easy as kiss your hand," I quite nice but a bli insipid, so I did I know I'd dug up her patch that most of what they
"In any case, 1 nold, "it is It gen' diamonds
the desk as almost everybody belloves. in the world very small part of their battle asked, looking &CTOSE said. "Just a matter of will sent out for some stronger ones. of parsley the night before?
And into M's eyes.
"Well, I know many mouth known that dental decay, even power. This first day will be the By lunchtime, I'd eaten a pound was obvious I'd stopped smok-are mined on British territory with the big-time canes,
breathers have conted tongues," when grom, does not produce percent of all it's not doing any harm to the ing in the nick of time. My and that
States Rather out United
"You've got an WOTSt.
appointment said Mr Gibbs.. the After that, the craving and a half of them.
furring of the tongue. will just fade away."
in London. By the Diamond reverse it anything, It's only with Vallance at the Yard iri”****** "True" I said. "Also smoken But Mr Gibbs wanted to have The boss was in quite a good nerves were so jumpy I could diamond sales are carried "Got
craving already?" mood for once, and asked i
Corporation.
England that's the loser. And ·M looked at his watch-"just tend to have furred tongues.” something wrong with him. I Scott asked.
sticking to my resolution.
America is outside the juris over an hour, He's going to
Imow he would go frem doctor his M shrugged "Certainly not.
shoulders. diction of the police and M.15, alaṛt you off. They're going to
to doctor with his furred tongue said he was thinicing of
"Don't ask me why, The British Only the Service can handle the pull in this carrier tonight and
and, spend, as much giving up anoking himself.
money on THE next day was worse still. got hold of the business at the job.
the pipeline In put you into
I suppose everybody belleves. quack remedies na It would cost stead of him."
that a furied tongue is a sign to buy his wife a fue coût. X to hang on to wrong. The boss was infuriating we've managed
that something is wrong. But miggested that the furring 'was' enough to put up I femored and Scott was worse. Asked if I k. Now it's a bruge trade. Fifty Diamonde?"
Bond's fingers curled softly the truth is that a furred tongue probably the result of smoking.. round the ovens of his chairs as common in health, as in escaped million pounder a year. him and went on eating some convict in my desk, because I biggest dollar-earner we've got.
"Yes, of course, Sir" said "And then?"! **
dreaso.
"I don't smoko, doctor,” he big Bond. "The
American THAT'S just like Scott. He's a biscuits I'd bought at middelt kept sending the boy out
do said triumphantly. come illnesses "So when Strangely enough, I
something goes Jewellers. On West 40th Seces weak type himself and when:
"And then," saki M matter-
"Then it can be related to "you're going to affect the tongue. Doctors don't wrong with it, the Government in New York and the Rue de, of-factly, he recogniacs determination in hungry at the end of the day, other people, he doesn't like it, and had a sandwich and a ga deyil a steak and
"Much better give the poor sets worried. And that's what's Rivoli in Paris. I gather they smuggie those diamonds into just ask patients to sick it out your diet," I answered. "Espo the
At least, that's the to see if they smole too much cially if you cat overcooked and way home,
M looked mildly rank almost as high as Cartier America. and accuses them of being of beer on
happened." felt so the result that I didn't much said.
Bond. "At least and Van Cleef and Boucheron idea. What do you think of it?" or drink too many pints of strong soft foods. Whatever the reason, snappy, Fortunately, 1
of diamonds nowadays. · ·They've come up at i could afford to ignore him. Taney my mipper, and Molly was
I'd no sooner told him to shut £2,000,000 worth But when I been-mindedly a bit short-tempered with me up then the office boy started are being smuggled out of very quickly since the war.". fished for a cigarette just then, Good thing I wasn't nervy complaining that it wasn't his Atrics every year!" you'd have thought I'd done wall, or we might have had a something ludicrous the way serious rift: Soott carried on. The silly ass simply couldn't understand the
one, it would fade. Logical,"
have screamed.
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##
But if I had He "No need to be mappy about fold Scott, who said that was THE next day wh wins went Beginning of the century and
it," said Scott.
difference between habit and a craving
the last straw-we'd had quite with already in the last two
WIS
sheltering
buns and sweets.
with
06
for
onions," he
across at
Tho
job to rim my errands all day. "That's a lot of money," said These kids think they can get Bond," "Where are they going away with murder nowadays. 107”||| Thoy don't know what work 199 Scott mid the kid was right, and
We
5 it was, I just got straight we nearly came to blows. All that day, I showed a good up from the table, put on my were all bowling our heads of deal of drive and initiative in overcoat, und dug in the garden winan the boss came in and aske dealing with the work, and I by moonlight for en hour. When od if we'd gone mad. He meni WAR ́t at all surprised when the I came in, Molly had gone into od to think I was the cause of bors rangt for me to discus in a neighbour's for the rest of the all the trouble. Jatter we were sending to our ovening and the fire was out, On the way home, I felt po fl Next day, I felt a bout of flu 1 thought. I'd boiler - get the
·best ollents,
I wont cinto his room alert and coming, on, and thanked my doctor to give me the once over. purposeful, mod: I could see he stars I was fit enough to have a After willing two hours in the noticed the fact. He looked at good chance of shaking it off. queue avitually got to see me and talend - 12 I wam foding ·Didn't fool like.../
to him: He went through the metal
moody. 1 unid. I was finas'He said : 4owa; in the usual staan ang usunt · listening, am thianping
When the odd compartment,
my now a non-moker
My pa samowo "Not mucts wrong" with F
I looked"
• rasolusion, the boss gaye a nasty bishops, lagu b
molt sakh said he hoped I'd mado The olde
Into performance and announced:
Just cut down smoking VOLT Stuffy. The to prove doctors don't time.Dimoult typy, the Boott said he hadn't noticed it, know what they're talking bow. Then he told me has the and was surprised that, as man about, I'va!: Boom chain-smokine letime I'd written was balderdaal, like myself in the pinic of coris avarance, and Tre never gol mod a Low other "thlags" that dation, ushojaid betonttected by mbules my 110. wekoed to me untocestry, I stach a trifkč.1 kiot my
MANDRAKE THE
WE'VE GOT TO KEEP.
LOTHAR FEC.
THIS FOOD TO SHIM
WE .FIGUREO
OUT A WAY--
HOW LL WE GET
"Ever heard of the House of
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"Yes," said · M. "Those are the people. They've got a small "Diamonds are Forever" by Ian place in London too. Hatton Fleming, is published by Capt
to be very big at 124, dd, garden, Ueed
MAGICIAN.
THE FOOD IS LOADED INTO- BOMB BAYS OF BIG PLANES
DIAGNOSTIC AID
Of course,
tea (for this is a cause also), it just doesn't matter "NUM Examination of the tongue cán He still looked doubtful. "As be a valuable diagnostia aid. a matter of fact," I continues. "I have furred tongue myself.”. Thus, in diabetes the tongue But I kept my tongue in my sometimes is dry and red and a check, "bit. painful; In pernicious
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