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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1956.
NATHANIEL CUBBINS
S there will be many Lords, though if the lords get foreign visitors to Bri. much poorer they may take fipa
one day. tain this summer, በኒ fow hints for those who may arrive with precon- ceived ideas about us may be helpful.
OUR HONESTY; Our favourite delusion about ourselves, derived no clouts from the old suying "Any Englahraun's word is his trodd."
As a matter of fact among the few people in the country who will pay without a contract or bond are the NovemakerA.
It should also be pointed out that the police spend mon their time chasing Thieves to
Housewives spezad
lot of their
1 Was once wald oi the French that even the President
as tippable if the tip was big enough.
This could not happen in Bri- tain because we do not have a president.
Only a Governeft
TOR readers who liked my
lapse into the old-fashioned long" that looks like an "r" 14 a fragment of a novel "Only a Governelf" written in that mULTATER.
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fast curs or ver roof tops The year if 1850 and the feene of the ancestral time checking Tradesmen's bills, the thrany and tradesmen spend a hat of enfile of a widower, the Mar- whofe eldeft front of Gravy, involves
ton, Fidney, if making a paff at The orphaned governeff. Fybil.
time
check by
wholesalers,
in other words, nobody trusts anybody.
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visitor will dis- to tik mazement That the modest, self-effacing British consider themselves to be tr finest people in the work
He will als discover that the Anest Brities por live sa dat ferent parts of the islands
to England, the first people will be Engl In Wales, they will be Welsh, In Northern Ire tand the tent
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in Scotland, where modesty » national vier. they just !! you there
is nobody like them
"Unhand me, fr." fold Fybd. her foft, calm volce belying the
Suffefed Huth that
her pale
within cheek and the tumult her bolom. Although I am orly In improtected geverneff, 1 am alf a Wen
entitled to your
refpect even if you are the fon of a marqueff or your forbearf the font of a Choufund eart."
"Oh. Mi Fubl" fald Fidney, his moler thick with emotion. "Farbe 1 from me
take advantage of a fotherleff female,
Junt
the blood Cramps run through my neinf and i'muft declare my paßion."
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"You daflard," he fald to hit fon in thunderout tonef. "You wicked daftard."
"I En-
"But, fr," faid hit for, have the most honourable tention towards Mig Fub, 1 hope to marry her fo that one day he will be the Marchiones of Gravy."
A mar-
"Fybil will becogne chloeft footer that you #ink," ripoffed hf father. "We are to be married tomorrow."
"Can this be true, Fubil?".
Fidney' voice founded incre- dalouf.
"Yet," faid Fybil "At I do not consider your Intentiont honourable I thought I would make fure of becoming marchionell by marrying your
father
A bird in the band if worth two in the bufh," added the hmple governell, wooning In the arm of the marqueff.
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THE BIG WEB
MURDER.. on the eve of the Interpol conference in Vienna. If'. fact and Action both. WHO killed Johann- sen, a shy delegate from Sweden? And WHY wa he clutching three black hairs and a
plece of paper bearing a code? CI.D. girl Fraulein Annaliese, trailing a mya. terious blonde, may be about to find out....
"We can't all be Pat, Smythe, Miss Ringbone.”
fact and fiction
It is not
the first
time they've
TT BOTH!
Aut that moment I rolled from under the bed and climbed to my #col. I saw a Agure in front of me and made a grab at it. But I was too Inte. The gure jumped over me, raced
french for the windows and vanished over the balcony.
By the time I dead Kot my bearings my assailant was clean away. All could see, running
swiftly across the clearing. beside the Vienna Opera House, and I'm a little figure, damned whether 1 could have
was
sworn in a court of law if the Agure belonged to a man or a
woman.
Wos
But when I turned ΟΣ Che in my room there. lights
something i could be dk- finitely certain
attacked me as I sleep!
By PERCY HOSKINS and LEONARD MOSLEY baths in the world.
I
TODAY
CHAPTER 4
a1
credibilities of the largest steam
THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE.
They
I swam in the vast pool where artificial manufacture
SOANAL
1
to simulate the impres sion of being at the seaside. plaged into cold fresh-water baths and wnded through warm sea-water baths.
No. 2
The Vitona Opera House, near the hotel where I was attacked
ot.
had
Whoever been there had been trying to kill me.
The
sheet over the pillow I had stuffed into any bed was ripped wide open-and lying beside it
a knife.
If I had been where the pillow Lay I should have been stabbed to death;
was
I locked the doors of my room and closed the windows and climbed into bed. And over since then I have been waitingg for a call from Annaliese.
She has not been in with
touch
me yet, Nor with her headquarters.
not
Bul if CID Vienna is worried, why should I be?
"Fraulein Wittee has already Informed 129," they told me, *that she is likely to be out of
Vienna helped to kidnap and kill Uttle I explored the steam-rooms, WASN'T too Johannsen," Annaliese must the dry rooms, the gymnasium,
realised have
what and once
massage
parlours, Le alarmed, of course, would happen.
needle showers and the hot air when realised that
The blonde, to escape from tanka. even peeped into that Fraulein Annaliese me, would putomatically make part of the Diara Baths where for that section of the baths Austrian enthusiasts for "nature had disappeared somewhere
where inside the vast swimming So Annaliese
a man couldn't follow, culture" meet to swim and talk
had
after without the benefit even of a Kone pools and steam rooms of her instead.
bikini and I thought how silly
"I know who she Is and that Sir Ronald Howe, the chief touch-and that she will con- the Diana Baths.
they all looked sitting like that
where she is going," the note British delegate to Interpol, tact us sa ooon as she is able, I knew, despite her youth
at tables drinking coffee.
Bald "Do not worry about me, had decided to resign from the It is a usual thing." Just before nine o'clock, feel- I will get in touch with you Metropolitan Police at the end and good looks, she Wus
DECIDED my best plan was
ing cleaner and lighter, if hard-
tomorrow." It was signed by of the year. Now we under- just as efficient in her work
to wait. I bought a ticket of happier, came back to the
Ronnie why Sir
bad Diana Annaliese. It was followed by a slood her male work admission
of the as any of
entrance hall and went inside.
for news of Joel"
P.S. saying: "Please don't worry, turned down the offer to be the
I had no doubt that it note with the attendant Baths and asked
next President of Interpol. on the plain- t
Fraulein Annaliese.
was genuine and that Annaliese clothes staff of the Vienna (plus a large tip) to tell Anna-
liese that I would be waiting A new altendant had taken was on to something. C.I.D.
for her.
the place of the burly men. He i figured it out this way.
That
I went back to the in the insisted on veritying my name When I pointed out the blonde evening.
from my passpont. And then he and hung around with a few of chief at Vienna CID just in going into the Diana Bolha and For the next two hours handed me a note. It was brief the delegates, We
there bad all case
was something said: "There is the woman who explored
her message. received the news from London wrong with vaporous in but reassuring.
teedn't have worried.
I
colleagues
RED
Was
seven
the
RENE MacCOLL'S RED CHINA NOTEBOOK
SCOWLS TURN
TO
O all this week-end I have Adgated and waited. I went About 11 In the evening. I decided to call it a day, but just with the Interpol delegates to a performanco of "Exon before going to bed I thought I gala
Giovanni" at the Opera House hotel had betler telephone Annaliese's and hardly heard a note of the
music.
SMILES
FOR LAST-DITCH BRITON
the bar,
dis-
and
to
This morning, I was sitting disconvolately on the terrace of
"We know all about your my hotel when a man in a light said visit to the Diano Baths, and suit came up to me and
Well, cheerfully:
what trap- we expect Fraulein Wittee report in shortly,"
We had a dato szid the pened to you? CID night clerk. "We have a
to meet and talk yesterday, re- amberber? Could you malce message saying she'll be calling ** us tomorrow.”**
GOT into bed, read the news-
It was frue, I had arranged to meet and talk with O'Brien, the Australian Interpol delegate, and thrash out some mutual problema
papers from London. and He was a sympathetic man, I then settled down to sleep. was in a mood to confide what I didn't sleep well, I had bad was worrying me and I told dreams. I had dreams that
I told I him all I know. was at sea in a small boat with about the kidnapping a beautiful girl, and that a murder of Johanneen. shark kept leaping into the boat him about the blonde and about and talking bites at the girl the killer who had been
with but that I couldn't do anything her.
about
it
becauso my KUITE
wouldn't move.
I woke up in a sweat and
looked around my hotel room.
*
him
and
Gold
WAVE of smilles, 100--and of these only a hand-
Now. Travel restrictions have lifted
under the new and Briton and ful were born in Britain.
It looks as if he friendline sa
can again visit pensation But the difference 13 that holiday resorts. As two of them almost out of the wood courtesy from the
whereas
the were leaving by train for one of may be home by the end of this two years Ogo Chinese has recently en- British were stili getting really these resonts recently the train summer.
treatment from the guard busiled and sternly
British I met some of the veloped the startled British tough
Chinese, today it is a trans- fold two Chinese in the same colony La the RAF club, business community, the formation scene.
compartment to leave instantly founded by, William McBane, of $18.00 remnants of tho once Not long ago the polleeman so that our British friends may the Mollers shipping concern,
18.00 tremendous commercial and who once a month visits every enjoy their Journey in peace."
who expects to stay indefinitely When did this extraordinary 15.00 banking complex which not British resident was harsh and
Most
DULL CITY
I suddenly knew i wasn't alone, EVEN mentioned the clues come about?
we had found in Johannsen's contemptuous. Officials went in change so long ago did multi-million for desk-pounding and deliber- British
It was of the first time dead hand, the human haire, people Bay it began
my life that someone had tried the night-club leaflet, and the pound business in Shang- ale rudentes. No travel was during the visit of B and K to
The club has all the right to buryle my apartment or hai,
allowed. Many Britons, called Britain and was speeded up things hugo propeller over | attack me while I was sleeping. code.
announced she
Tell me about this code,” Until 1949, when Mao's "responsible persons, were kept when Britain
A HAF pennants, I had made quite a few enemies intended to revise the schedule coloured photograph virtual prisoners in China. -
O'Brien sold. "How did it 35.00 Armica swept into this huge
of the in my career. of embargoed goods to China.
read?" Queen, and mixad writi for So I know what to do. 7.50 city-one of the worki's
MAGIC CHANGE
And who is around #lill to lunch served by Chinese
I told who rolled over vory slowly and
"That's the trouble,"
"It doesn't seem to be 7.50 biggest, with
enjoy this unlooked-for change were old-time stewards in the quietly pushed my plow from 6,000,000
for the bobber?
ever, como Royal Navy, population several thou-
under my head into the bed and like any code we But the fact remains that down between the blankets, CTOss before, and wie di para't 5.00 sand British were in what doctrine of the
All Johaninaon break it down. sknufated behind the new Chinese attitude Meanwhile,
wrote, were three groups of 4.00 was then called "the Paris has to accept ultimate responsi Failly the most
At the same fimo, bility for seeing that his firm's Alm Forarth, a red mousta has lost a huge commercial, 1.00 of the Orient.
"What WONO, to
they?" assets are completely liquidated ahlood, Boot, who returned to banking, and road, estate pro- my eych in favour of the Chinese, 116 Slangbat in 1940. offer. Japanese perty and, in many cases, has the semi-darnicies of the Vien- O'Brien. I took out my note.
received no buildings handed over and tha
com- nese night, I crawled first cut boul, and cald: "514-74-22/1
O'Brien said: "For houyen's 1.50 Today Britain's commercial Inst penny exuried before, after internment. Forsyth, achar- not only
tered "scopuntary, agreed to. permation, but has been forced of bod-and then under it. position there is a squeezed endlers palaver and document represent other + firms who to pay through the nose for the From underneath 1 lay there salce, why didn't you ask me
about this before. I. can, tell you' 30 and smashed dragment of what Alling, he is at last allowed to wanted to pull their own top privilege of handing it over. and wasted.
leave, the country, ...
men out of Shanghai. At one '・ And
the The Paris of 30 it was. And anyone suggesting
About 10 seconds afterwards what that code menna, A
I thought for a moment and I heard the whistle of wind--- Suddenly that the Shanthal of 1050 bear
tha charge
Отот a rip-rousing 30 the slightest resemblance
to magic. One long-term, British time war "omponsible person". Orient"?
for 14 different "fama,
port, it is now so dull and as if someone were moving an then added: "Yew and I think Paris would be looked at very resident was asked to, to with This entailed on perous sedate that the crew of British Instrument swiftly through the I know why only Johann Enkel strongěry fribeed.
the local polico prefect the other amount of red tape in both ship often do not bother to go air and thank a tremendous thua wide drom us Autralians--could
at decipher it." When I was in Shahghat lost afternoon and urged in the monses of red--and Forsyth'ss. 'ushort, though they are given on the bed above me, SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. Shore were all around madlost wag to the tile
"Didi." in od though; -motivo - fairly de- the rucs of the town. .KOWLOON 300 to 400 British in Shanghai Quance in favour of "Sino proming periods as the compli- the last of the night: clubs, was and then an exclamation-in
Now the total is down to a bere British harmony and peace,” osted exchanges dregged on. closed down in 1956,
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FORSYTH THE SCOT
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adrians to and all the loosening-up, Britain heavy breathing of aloinking foliers and numbers,” Danced
fast to get usad
There was a, pouse, mi strunt, ut MORE TOMORROW