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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1956.
NASSER TRIED TO FRAME ME
Donald Edgar flies out of Cairo and tells
the first full story of the Nasser terror
Over the Mediterranean of Niever Despota need ruch row that Nasser has men
We met several times.
N
story of
The Britain,
nkwking
They drink so much Scotch mander-in-Chief, Aly
Amer-
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in the fashionable Liars that were against the Suez adven- they must be quite a drain on ture and were thinking that it arresh two Britons Onur storted by mocking the Ministry of Pinence.
might be necessary to overthrow Western O winked obviously and Naber if the worst came for "spying."
volce: the worst, honour, justice, muld, in a rather loud who principles of this tyrant
! Trull. mocking our "Some people listen foo much, rules Egypt must be told
nchievements, crowing over don't they It is a story of a fantas. or impending detenl tie plot
incriminate Britons working in Egypt. i am writing it on the pla
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knowledge that Na Mlang ta Fran the
We realost on the art et James Swinhorn and Curls Pittek That action
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despotism had been in a hod
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But then he Egan talking against hi master, Nasser
Meet Farik
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Che night in an elegant dal mverlooking The Nile night when the moth was at
when the tlf.
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Every Bettade pastil been Miligeted to peterare
involve him
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Was Karily like Beatsh fatigadier Tonga age, the same bearing, the Pune peindache
Ester, Omar called uz tekle | 11 "know the British are Kong to come fir Who are By going tex Place Nasser
th You must kn
Thit at lunch Brigadier Farik, a big, heavy man who looked older than his 30 years, tadiced all right.
"Talkerd of England, of the Ho had taken there, how he had passed the and how many Start College, happy years the had spent in the countryside in
England.
many
LET'Nea
He added that he had resign- ed because his position had been made difficult he was a friend
Tupporter and
ot Negulb, Nissor's predecEMOT.
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But, more was to come.
said Omer, "Brigedler" war comes would the army rup- port a return of Farouk?"
With a gesture that showed that between friends every con-
Farik ndencz is possible
said: "Perhaps not Farouk. But the
The talked of his carver: Until two months ago he had been ron-yes," Staff offer on the sea front,
And the under Omar's prompting he began to talk with hats itt
So bland
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Canacion
THAT they had decided to ki
a triops in the Gaza strip
THAT lenst 20 Russian Midis had already been crashed
pupil plots THAT
way in of jet Training with charge Czechs working under him
THAT the Germans had not been a great success with the Egyptians But that the brain of the mandng was a certain General von Baecker who had But let's met as if by svod nr Rommel.
They
1 admared the sins reproche* –
French cates ng this
Impres the tong The vents Carro rand "Let's meet with Burich to-
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That was it. I had a tuljor- made story. All I had to was to wille it and go to the cable office.
But I had been making au inquiry or two.
found there 15 110 Mohammed Abdul Farik who has been a staff officer on the I raell front. But there IS a colonel of the same name in military intelligence,
After that durch the web bes gum to be epun more and more vigorously.
Omar said he had arranged for me to ineel the finer hvad j of Farouk's steret police.
I said No.
He tried to interest me more meeting with a certain uneusy eagerness by now,
No wonder. This was two before the arresis Swinburn and
and Piltuck
brigader had
days called Conturice laiks te repel Israeli wek their commander The evil of Egypt grows from
"Brigadier, Bal
we are day to day-a strange tyranny But wing to b
we catrol that is borrowed from Hitler That's what the swines ut ur tiks no zetion. Our ond Sindin but has its own
in just don't know how to special Egyptian favour. the them
"Beemose $ Cuppies they have got to know that I am anti-
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As one man who knows the THAT it would be two years Egyptians west raid Iu me: before then Russian qulmen: "They are a people of bottom- lea drecit You think you have could be med emeiently
Park then rald blundly that delved down deep enough wil most of the senior officers of the know
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"Dunno what effect he has on Nasser-but, gosh! He frightens US!"
RUSSELL SPURR'S REPORT ON SINKIANG
No. 4
MARX AMONG THE
T
HE Kazakh Stock-
breeding Co- operative undoubtedly
was
In showpiece. Everyone was
brought to
800
it.
The
the
jeep drive from Urumchi the tribe, could conveniently be made in a day; the last few miles up rolling turf slopes to the domed hilltop, where nomads pitched their tents, ΚΟΣΤ muddy heavy-duty tyres.
The Chairman Co-operative,
WILS
with
the
big mun
NOMADS
cut the Muslim wcrid
from
To Le in re-
Mongolia to Yugoslavia. reproduced, of course, staurants al over the world With # was served great greasy plates of pilau. another dish known beyond the steppes. combination of rice and diced meat.
But greatest deliency
میری
Paris Newsletter
From Sam White
NO ROMANCE,
SAYS MME FATH..
Paris,
CAN give the facts about two intriguing reporis con- cerning the future of Madame Genevieve Fath, widow of the dress designer Jacques Fath.
The first rumour said that she Intended to marry the 44-year- old Duko James do Cadaval, saich that sho
The second
planned to give up her business.
Both stories are untrue.
First, the Romance,
The fact
mata
is that the duke is
with
a married
two His
In
1x ⇓ carely
children Lille Portugal. Portuguese one, but he visita Portugal and dotan'l even speak the Inguage. The greater part of his considerable fortune derives from the French side of the family. His grandmother is
a De Gramoni, A faindly, which holds Jurge interests in the great banking Arm of Credit Lyonnais.
AN OLD FRIEND
lives THE duke
THE
life of bachelor-Uke freedom in Parts and big only fixed address here for some years hus
been Madame
The Travellers' Club. Fath denied any romantic attachment to the dust,
"не
is a very old friend of mine and
he was a close friend of my husband," she told me, blushing dellcately.
added, I am
She
however, "Happily.
not yet old enough to enter a nunnery."
As to the second rumour
Fath told Machine
that M3 while it was true that the had
had somewhat disappointing ren on she had no intention of closing the business.
All the big houses, sh ex- plained, have done less well this year and she attributed this to the high prices in France and increasitut
trom competition Amerleen and Italian fashion houses.
She had been ridiculed for
many fura in winter collection, ons critic
using
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Buying that her dresser
hod though they
for skating designed
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her
icoked
been
In
Moscow, und another com- plining that the fur trimmings made them too expensive,
Madama Fath countered the last charge with what seemed to be irrefutable feminine logic: "What they don't sccm 10 rtise is that my dresses repro- pent the cheapest posible way of wearing furs," she said.
Madame Fath finds one great dificulty in running her fashion house, and that is that she cannot sketch her ideas,
"This means,"
she said, "that I have to explain my ideas to a designer who puls them cn paper for mo."
ALL ALONE
all LONELY death has beinilen
the
The rule of the kept their place: in the people, economically divided old Headmen WAN over. huts, Not now: quite a to specialised sections Everything was organised few peeper in at me from covering milking, breeding,
wa? a flour and cream paste (2) semi-Socialist lines. Ume to time. their hair butter and cheese making made with the greatest ingenuity I was inside a sheep's lung. First the Surely they had been be- braided beneath little en- and animal feeding. fore? I had always thought broidered skullcaps, and old in the butter
lung has to be removed from the and cheese
sheep by hand. A kaffe might the nomads ved 11 com- silver coins sown 01 to making section. Across the damage 1. Then the seasoned munal life. But no, before their clothes. Some carried valley, on un identical hill- mixture is eased into the revolution there had chubby children in grimy top, were the tents of the heen rich and poor. The sailor suits or blankets. enttle breeders.
poor
with drooping moustaches, rich exploited the
made the customary speech
welcome.
He led the nomads' labour.
It was an
of way into the round, hide-
same
rooms all over China.
It
was
арасе. the porter
to
means
انه لاره
Settling Down
The
tribesmen
were shed
The government the
In Reverse report these great changes, never
Today he Grubby children gather impact
tells of the part of their diet. of Communism meat and butter, but ed in the doorway. They on the nomad cattle men. such foreign delicacies
cabbage and turnips.
were warmly clad, for de spite the sunshine
the it bought
High Spot
д
# roted
markedly and ccentric member of the Frmch arly carey. He was the Mar- quis Justn Boniface do Castclingt, the last surviving Pon of the splendid turn-of-the- marriage botwren century Arna
Gould, the American Illway heiress, and the Mar- quis Boni de Castellane, Jason's two brothers
In tha twenties His
now mohar, the Dowager Duchess de
Talleyrand-Perigord, સ sil!!
alive.
Jason lived and died a recluso in small inn in the village of Salerne, in southern France, He had lived there for 14
years, completely cut family and Parisian society.
anick
The in
off from his
the lung rough the orifice, a' few drops at a time and cautiously, other- wise it will burs The whole process takes up to a couple of The div. of labour had They wouldn't have been
hours. The lung is then ted ulf. Earnings with string and boiled for four so forward before, said the pprrently pud
year would be nearly hours in sail water. Eventually Chairman. You see, they doubled. Log cabins were being it bursts and the expanded mix- covered tent where the ac- Something akin to a
new had equality, with the built for the winter retreat
fure, now solidified, is cut into coutrements of reception revolution is taking place gradual abolition of class the valleys. A relpol was being small cakes.
elarted. The wolf menace was were laid out on the floor. in Sinkiang, China's far differences. Women were
teams of hunters
with There
The were
same northwest province, Re- even
allowed 10 divorce guna presented by the govern- cigarettes, the
same ash- mote and inaccessible, their husbands, once it was ment had killed so many that it trays the
bowls of Sinkiang
Every day he took his lunch was extremely rare for a shrep always decided they could no longer to be carried off. One was
man had Now for the high spot of the evening meal alone in the candy that adorn any of the linked with mystery and live together. Ah
PR, done so well he'd been pro- meal-mare's milk. I had noticed inn. He continued to receive a plush curtained reception intrigue. But
considerable since
the laimed a labour "hero" of wolf wamen kneeling to milk the things had changed.
income which he devoted to efforts ring and been given a medal mares Bs.
at restoring the jeep drove up. Chinese Communists took
the ruined family chateau near and a free visit to the wonders They reckoned to get two plat & disappointing over, development of agri-
ef Urumchi.
from cach a day,
Balerne. It is allowed
dating
to the back anti-climax even whon
culture and other
24 to stand for
Crusades, hours in sitting
had estab- leather bag the cushions on
He was a bachelor, and all in the dairy tent. of production has gone on
of of sun-
were contained equivalent munching a cake
his possessions a Then stirred vigorously with a Russell Spurr is
a small sultenso which he dried sour cheese.
first Western
re- actually getting a taste for general store at the foot of the wooden stick and served.
hills.
nomade milk is aerated and sharp to the brought with him when ho mcat and vegetables. Greenstuffs had butter, cheese and witness
want to live at the inn. and tongue, like dry champagne: a formed sold them goods at previously
controlled medicinal drink, I was told, but One night Jason Anished his in | evening moni, sold good night Milk, prices. Two doctors were station- one that should be taken
moderate quantities. ed at the store. They made re-
An over- to the innkeeper and his wife not
This visits to gular horseback
the dose
can of mare's milk
be and went to bed. as neighbouring tribes. Newspapers highly Intoxicating.
came Most in the Kazakh language
and there The meal ended with great revolutionary of all they up twice a month,
learning knuckics of holled multon was keen competition $18.00 was cool. The plains and economic contradiction that were settling down to farm to read them among
the older pats of creamy butter, scooped a patch of land. It wasn't illerate tribesment.
up and caten straight, in hande 18.00 their heat were only a dusty only socialism could solve.
fuls. The marc's milk flowed Now there were still rich large, only about 300 acres, 15.00 shimmer beyond the pines,
on the tent. The Chairman lay 25.00 a spot to be avoided until and poor. The rich had as but it saved buying wheat One Wife Only fast, and a replete slience settled back picking his strong white at least the first frosts. many as 700 head of sheep from the plains.
teeth and gazing thoughtfully. Women were cooking out and cattle. No one had con-
The
are Co-operative
The Kazakhs
Muslims, through the hole in the roof. Chair dike most of the nomads. The 25.00 side, their tents. The hint fiscated their property. But
own per- Co-operative had fis
Sleopily he said: "We have 35.00 of charcoal-broiled mutton the poor, who might have founded after the
taken a stock sonal priests. The old marriage marched for along the road
it cncloend a cheque for 100,000 7.50 meandered across the grass. had only 20 cattle, now got man had
all Scelalisme",
franes (about £100) explaining A couple were riding back more from the government, breeding course in Urumchi. rites were still performed,
in a note that this was to bowl of water, Girls tended Outside among the lengthen-cover the cost of publication from the doctor, 20 miles Their immersion in the co- He came back full of tech- present sipping from the same
where wages nicalities and Socialist
marty at 18, boys at 18, The ing shadows an old woman was the
Sompany's communiqu 5.00 away the woman sitting operative,
or curing a skin with milk, Children
editors Among the elegantly astride her horse ware paid for labour as well tions to train 10 assistants, avenge family aves three
the four chlidren. Once it had been were collecting
the
scattered received this
was the in heavy rod robes and as for the shares of pro- then banded together 1.00
ensured first 18 families. That was the custom for the richer men dung for duel. The foals were editor of the Comm
papir Libera'ion.
all-tho boots, an alling baby in the perty contributed,
That was now forbidden. Those flautist was prac!Ling, per- other Paris editors returned the more equable distribution a little over a year ago. Then have to many as five wives. being temporarily untethered. A 3.00 crook of her arm, The
results were quite sensa yho had more than, one wite sistently and sadly, in the sun- cheques to tho company, and 1.50 grandmothers ran
out, of wealth."
wcre1 allowed even ilt deorway of a tent. The wind refrained from commenting oo Each family re- already tional. 1.50 toothless and wizened, to
It sounded to me like So- colved 1000 yuan and 30 ordered to maintain docm. But sprang up, anncuncing its ar- the incident, Liberalien gave
the rival
with a watery roaring the matter full publicity, .30 bombard the mother with
cialism in reverso, '
baby sheep for its first Chinese marriage laws, ('mono- through the pines. .30 agitated expert discussion
year's work.ANA
gomy 'was the rule,
TO READERS "Grect progress" mumbled 30 before the whole crowd dis- Things had changed from.
appeared inside a nearby the old days. Necessities No one had ever mado Lunchtime and cook the Chairman. "Over 100 nomad NATHANIEL GURDINS 1
brought in delicious „spiced co-operativer."
the sick; list. This socounts for On Sale At:
tent...
the non-appearance today of his Hke benbricks, oil and cloth anything like that money knobs brolled on steel skewers SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. The Chairman sat beside, had been exorbitant. Rich in the hills. Others rushed over an open-air barbecue. The He was almost asleep. I ant popular humorous Wed
KOWLOON me on the floor telling of the men could, buy wives for to join. Now there were kebob le perhaps the nomads cross-legged on the floor won feature, which will be awes
revolutionary changes in sheep and cattle. Women 105 famikes, & total of 642 Eratost contribution to world dering wind Karl Mark would
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Next morning when his coca was brought up to his rocm he was found dead. He was 53. The suflence in his room was cure.. fully packed as though he had been prepared to leave that morning,
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