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URGENT + PRESIDENT EISENHOWER ANNOUNCED TODAY RUUSIA HAD RESUMED PESTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
CAN BRITAIN CATCH UP? YES!
AS
RUSSIA
ATO M BOMB
carry them
Estimatad
H-BOMB
Scheduled for ! Scheduled for
NIL
Total
· member ́et:
riod.
EXPLODES ANOTHER-
First tested
First dropped from aircraft
First atomic shell fired
First atomic cocket fired
number of A-bombs In stockpile
First dropped First tested from aircraft
Estimated number of H-bombs in stockpilo
1
Scheduled for i
AUTUMN 1956
NIL
Warbands ready but no j
TTY YYYY
rockets to
SPRING 1957
SPRING 1957
MAKAUPIGA
SEVERAL HUNDREDS
LUROTMAN TUKANG PROTE
NOVEMBER 1952
MAY 1956
313155
AT LEAST
SEVERAL
SEVERAL HUNDREDS
! THOUSANDS
ALTOR
Russia
SEPT 1949
OCTOBER 1951
UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
AUGUST 1953
NOVEMBER 1955
AT LEAST
1 MORE THAN
1,000
MORE THAN 100
Britain
U.S.A.
OCTOBER 1,952
MONTE HELLO
JULY 1945
AUGUST
1945
MAY 1953
NEW MEXICO
HTMETNINASA
NEVALA
Rockets and warheade plentiful but bellaved none fired
YYYYYY
---BRITAIN STANDS BY WITH FOUR MORE
These test-explosions which }
flying eritical on two counts.
to
1001
111***
bombs each peeking a punch as
As the
weapon which Kval dt vastated Hiroshima
1
For the Best Time fightin men will be involved to such
Lests the ፡ ፭፡ extent That virtually represent the handing ve of the atom bomb fran
As the dramatie announcement the celestesia for the Forces "Russia has
tested
another
from
Two of the four blusts are curtain-maizers. for the test Britain's let H-bom
24 hardtalej to take place. of Christmas falusid to the Pacific next spring
nuclear weapon" came President Eisenhower, Selener Reporter Chapman Pincher was flybag to Marsings, Australia, where Britain ha holding her biggest stom tesia. Before he left he
the prepared
super- chart above to show where we
So the success of these Aus- the alom race.
cabled Traian tesla with largely decide en lake her acationat prediction: whether Britain
luce as an H-bomali Powor
stand now
And Lai,
his ok
Way
BY CHAPMAN PINCHER
B
IN TEST No. 1, hundreds
of
RITAIN will be a far I soldiers mre 10 De
more
into the 190
L weapon:
the
As they [ee] the heat and
formidable "Indeleinated" military atom of alomie
battlefeld Power than the bold figures
the bomb- scoreboard above suggest bust of the boint exploding on after the critical series of His high steel tower, they will Ienta wha! IL is like to bu tests now starting in the threatened with the fearful fre
juwer of shells, rockets, and
Australian desert.
The NEW
DOMB No. 2 will be expièncied
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The lighter side on a troubled island WITH THE GAY“ GORDONS IN CYPRUS
By FRANK HARRISON
"EXP.
It's amusing to hear how the
HAVE had a taste of guested to step, nut, The Greeks soldierlag in Cyprus have works for T:
piralento - Outside, please," OE out with a three-hour cupants had to be searched, and mobile patrol of the Gordon a thorough check of the vehicles Highlanders, who as you made maja oh may know are among the
Scotland's elite of giments.
We took a route that was new up through the to mo, going foothills of the Troodos mour-
Brah soldier. automatically re- apres into pidgin English
this case: pidgin Scots). trying to make people of other race understand intentions.
when ah-
"You open motor-çar bormet,** į talos—a winding, tortuous road courteous lance-corporal
through the Archangelos regio. quested of the feat driver to be The little mountain villages or glogged. "Me star-repel" And that road are Dascinating, how embarrassed Ule lande
corporal
looked when the
to hang from the slopes by some mysterious, gravity-defying cypriot pnswered im in doroc, and their gleaming white
fluent
and foulties Boglish, stucco standing out against the with less of foreign" "stcent
hillsides than the Scott
of the [vivid green
makes a glorious picture in the brilliant sunlight.
Their beauty, and their
pearance of tranquillity deceptive,
Counge
oď
can
We pass
COY EXPECTATION
The road block soon becamo the stopping place for a clutter ingh on od through
the EOKA-infested of farmers' Jorries,
playcles, and children; and bus hove into sight up with towns of Kalokharie, Petra
the Kato Koutrapha but oli were Highlanders' eyes. lit dozing in the evening sun, with OSPITOUNUT the little families (the men black the women in brightly- ocloured dresses)
sitting sound their front doors on small wicker seals. It seemed 100 peaceful
the Christmas Island H-bomb inpentous idan, believed to be
will
do more than
to be true. bring unknown to any other nation. fert
Britain level with America and
[ca
Russia
deferrent which means closing three year
power-
227 22
They are confident that it will
Bon the ground to simmalate po fritain HEAD
an afonte shell or rocket war- kernict
EXPLOSION No. 4
Is
In
E
ROAD-BLOCK
coy expectation, while at the time they seemed to ad-
same
quire an air of gallantry well- suited to their nickname "Gay Gordons"
Tealised why, I speedily
for one of them voiced the thought that
was in at their minds. "Girls!"* he said, anticipating to be
H-bomb. That is why it is to be dropped from a big Valiant. The crew of this plane will have those who he one of volunteered for the extremely hazardous task of dropping the real H-bombs, which will sel parallel to the coast road, about some belles in the bus.
1,000 tracs T оп an explosion
Xeros-Nicosia road more powerful.
I am mcIVE
eflee's
down that there were bound
Alas for their from it, and. The bus groaned to a standstill fond hopest
Presently
miles inland joined the the (with which
WO swung
the entire foot- than and disgorged
Letka, and
nothing else. footballers, The
nothing iesa Australia
T- full-dress ulmost than hearsal for Christmas Island
the From
decide familiar) at the village of Astro- ball team from the town of It has been cleverly contrived
will bomber experts so that it will also serve as
rond-block was es- A what evasive action the crew meritA,
and then tablished here, atomie should ordinary of *ཟླ་་*
the lake 10 escape the
through Morphou Cypriots to R.A.F.'s devastating blast weapon
Christmas pressed on at
and set up another block, which Island.
the
tr
Among
11
troop
concentration
Wen pos
Cl
This sounds a remote hope in It will provide vew at the position revealed in information about the new
Bit The big band scoreboard such effect
screebo mi dots not what the biliary tecties
"how is the outstanding genius ol Penney N
a designer
stockpile.
of
I will als produes facts and Agures bout the intense ground-alonie hardware. shock which would be produced The coming Christmas Island if an atomike bamb or H-bomb H-bombs are based on struck the earth to produce
crater Shelters of dit- huge ferent types have been built in the shock zone,
THE
a
TE No, 3 BOMB, which will be defonated on top of tower, is the final test of the triggering device to be fitted in the
to super-weapons
be dropped from Valiant bombers ef Christmas Istand...
Everything depends on ԱՐ which success of this device, looks like being another winner
for Sir William Penney
authoritatively can
state that the defence chiefs believe
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amready being carried out inven active dust set tree in Australia Australia for this purpose I will first,
will be in a caring the exact reveal in my next despatch, size and weight of the giant
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All vehicles had to be stopped. and the occupants politely re-
If you could face your
problems today as this man faces his...
AN ASTONISHING INTERVIEW BY MERRICK WINN
round his
neck on
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and this character became hop Icsa with
when the lance-corporal
Wigglingly
SUB-
gested to him that pockets might be full of bombs.
had
something wrapped In a handkerchier which tho lance-corporal made him open, A bunch of mouldy-looking carrots was revealed!
The footballer was reduced to convulsions of, merriment
regrets I've done many when the Seot intimates with a
twinkle stupid things, wrong things.
in his eye at the carrots were probably a new "But what is the use? If I type of
weapon of the BORA faction.
had my life again I'd do these same things. I'd be the same *No terroris"," the Cypriot person, I wouldn't change." chartled, with less command of
ibad English
Aoma of his But what would be give for fellow countrymen. "Rule Bri- Low torc years of üte? tannia, all gone finish. But me Would be, for instance, barter no terroria"!" the books he has written?
babbled something He then Greek which had the whole "No," he said. " wouldn't football team in hysterics, and
'OYCE CARY, one of It hangs
What were Joyce Cory's first Britain's greatest a black cord. It was to call for thoughts when he knew he was die? "Well," he said, novelists, is dying, about his room.
if he fell help
while getting going to But not now. "for some months I'd been hoping barter when I went to see Joyce Cary will not get on of for a cure. him at his Oxford home, it bed on his own again.
***There was a doctor with a seemed natural for us to
brand new treatment. He tried they're it out on mo. talk about death.
and so,
How to meet it and how to face the fear of it. What It will be like to die. What happens afterwards and all the other problems that perplex every one of us.
But it was not a gloomy talk. We laughed a lot. We laughed because co
still many people think him a woman ("Joyez was my mother's maiden name") We laughed at the doctors who, decided, know not much more then we did.
we
His dignity
DEATH has
not touched his features yet, except to shade the eyes a ittle, to pinch the checks. This it has done with dignity, even beauty.
And if death has touched his mexif- spirit it has done so cently. He is almost unafraid.
"We must all hate to die," he said. "But I think now I can accept it.
one. Not for 10 more | of life. It im't that youre Think my books so good, but me and they're some-
It didn't work. thing I have done with my life," Poor fellow, he must have been So we came to the final prob- terribly disappointed....
lem After death--what then? Ho stopped, because he had Joyce Cury is not a Christian in suddenly seen the funny side of the Christian conse this. We laughed. He went on:
Then
had a tremendous feel- I have to much ork still to do.
Ing of ingency
W
in
it was with great good humour that the and back-slapping Highlanders hushed them back into their bus and bade them a cheerful and noley forewellf FOUR LOVELIES
Immediately afterwards a 'car drew up containing • family man complete with four “layety His religion la complex, and Cypriot daughters The Scots personal. It came out of suffer-fell over themselves in vying ing.
with one another to make I shan't finish it. "Of course,
dives "began trying to write when capture-of
young ladies' I have 15 hair-unished novels. i
They succeeded, and I new novel, you
I was 31. I had to go on trying, smica never start know. I carry on with one I'd end falling, until I was 13. Unii was remin ed of the oft-repeat-
I had found my religion.
ed pronouncement that, by and batore. given up, possibly years
"Britain's best ambassa Lagre "Now I'm doing a novel called The Captive and The Free, my first about religion. I'm writing the big scenes first and then I'li all in the rest I always do that."
"It would be harder if I knew the date, and the time. But I know only that I shall die some time--so do you, so duos every- on
There will be no pain. paralysis can cripple all his body, but it cannot hurt him. E lay there, propped up on Neither Can it hurt
his mind; Have pillows in a four-poster
right to the end his brain will Het coughing. He went
His wait
Pathetic?
Perhaps two years. Perhaps would
not so long. The paralysis creep ing over his body reckons with
um
You
would
The
not
His belief
“I balleye in a personal Power, bigger than me, that I am con- tent to call God.
soldiers." were
dors are Britain's These Gay Gordons suredly no exceptions. "But I cannot believe in the
Finally we were on our way divinity of Christ, in eo inspired back to Aberdeen Camp, balta- Bible, or in the miracles. And
of the Gor-
Hon
headquarters 1, um inclined to think there is dons. I was pretty estevótis, fole no after-lito.
we had to pass over numerous
meeting- "I think my death will be the culverts favourite end of me.
places of EOKA bombs. A truck "And I do mind leaving the blown up on one of them would come to a very nasty finish in- world. I mind very much.
deed in the river below. His message
who has
I
Upon
"Oh, yos," he said. "I look life as a gift from God. I
LTE stopped again—this time for
bed, and locked back on his 67 be clear.
on: "I shall not be able to use He also looked, years of life. but not sadly, to the time that think so could you see him. You a pon much longer, but I can
And my feeling (of-upprehen- I'll go on as long lies abroad. The time of waiting, would feel warmed; and you still dictate.
sion was by no morbi velleved wish that you too wil as my voloo Bauta."
been by the inquisitive attentions of have in you to die like this,
So do not imagine self pity, or the only sign of fear in all the has written come of Britain's company for a time, shoot-
It was then that I mw in him So the man
Joyce Cary for 67 years, who a huge black: variture that hope no calendar. There is only one brooding.
three hours I was with him. He finest prose, will become nothing ing and floating disrally, over. "I never think about dying, I said "You see, the paralysis may in death. Nood he have lived? certainty: there is no cure.
and occasionally sweep- head, "There's a chance it will slow don't think people do in my affect my voles, and sometimes,
ing down to take a closer look position.
I never talk about it I think it is already doing so." for a while,' ho told me.
at us. It came so-mear, that “I "But
You're the first person at the moment I
either. tkm deteriorating rather rapidly." to whom I've really talked about
of a head. I told him, truthfully, that his did nothing to earn it. Now the could seo its bald monstrosity
distinctly, and It was a statement of fact, no 11.
voice was clear and strong. He time is coming to give it back glittering body · eyes behind mone.
"Dylang jo something
you said:
the evil curve of its beak; "I think you mean that. I have no right to complain."
What was the most important He added: "I'd always hoped must do alone,"
It's a relief to hear you say it.”.
Cypriot villagers will tell you thing life has taught him?, He that a vulture podsesses second to die suddenly. us through a
Then we talked about the old, said: would leave bullet in the hood.
His hope
this sight, but I dancy this one was old problem: how, at the end, to message Seize the day, for cross-eyed and must have afraid, is the slow way..."
deal with our regrets, our Te there isn't much time."
strayed from its banoful "beurt," Slow, and certain: With al- THEN he said: "It to, frankly, more for the things done and
When I left him he began to for 1 am glad to report that wo ways a new sign, a new abudow. a rather solitary nitair. But the things left undone.
write again, He hasn't much finished our homeward Journey For instance, the allyer whistle it is a loneliness you must
time.
without miliap, a accept. There is no escape,
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
YOUR NEIGHBOR.
MR. CRAD REPORTS HE SAW A MAN SHOOT OUT
OF YOUR CHIMNEY AT THREE AM.
SHOOT WHATT
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NOT A GUN A MAN HIMSELF
HOW.
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"I've hundreds of
PLEASE FORSET THE WHOLE THING, OBVIOUSLY,
HE SAW SMOKE
AND IMAGINED. THE REST.
PERHAPS HE WAS INTOXICATED,
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