NSPECTOR TILLOT frowned, concentrated over his ball and then played a gentle approach shot to the fifth green. The ball landed on the edge of the groon and rolled to within a foot of the pin. Ho put his club back in golf bag and smiled at Kang.
his
Dr
"You should take up this game, Dr Kang," he said. Away to their right the thin mist was lifting over the Atlantic and the water was beginning to take the sun sparkle.
said Dr "Years ago," Kang, "I played a lot. Now I prefer to watch and to walk around with an old friend."
Chance had brought De Kang and Inspector Tillot, of the Paris Surete, together in this small French resort. They were old friends, and old adver saries.
Walk carefully
To
"A your age it is beller Kive up some things," said the Insprater At your age at WITH to have decided to walk Carefully They were in the Kron now and with a precise movement of his putter he heted his ball.
De Kang rinded, the morning sunlight caught bas Thule- Jened glasses and has round, Bhudda-like face gleamed
ar old,"
"Sixty-but
walked carefully. worries."
קונו
ການ!
condensed, 1 have always I have
sale 15 "You are wrong." Iprelor as they waited in the
sixth tee. "When we met here even though I am on holiday checked with my bureau. There Two outslandi g affairs concernding you. Although we do not wish to press them."
ofte
or
"For lack of evidence!”
the 1
"For old times' sake,"
"However, Inspector smiled. have been instructed to ask youuu
leave France within
10
Wo
days. Il a pity for know you love France. You have a bad name."
"When the dog barks at night it is not always a thief who I am retired and approaches. wish only for peace."
Tho Inspector drove his ball and cursed as it silced away into a patch of trees
'Europe has never known such a successful lowbreaker as
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY. 5, 1957. AN
MURDER at
the sixth green
you. It is a pity that in your young days you did not turn your talents to police work, You would have been famous,"
“Ant be retired on a pittance?
S1, I am a lttle tired of being asked to leave towns and coun-
www tries which I love
come into a small fortune on her twenty-fifth birthday
and Monsieur Fleury was convinced, that Henri Sugarat was more Interested in the money than the girl.
"And Marcelle?" asked Dr Kang.
"You did not report this?" "No. I had no permit for the woupon,"
"A man does not Invite trouble Into ls -house," said Dr Kang, He turned to Inspector Tillot, "You, will excuse me, but this is an official matter.. I shall withdraw."
"Sho is young and flighty and Alts from one young man to Dr Kong walked across the From the auctioneer's links to where the local police the son, Pierre, to the bank clerk, were removing the body of
for the Inspector's ball. It was They walked forward to look very early in the morning and another, no one else
yet on AVIA Buks. The ball be Dat
could by VICTOR fuuri and they
walked
100
נות
A
yards from the sixth green there was a sund
bunker
10 the
right of the fair-
way.
Aa thes пр proached it Dr Rang saw a bag
of elids lying on
the russ by the
Funker.
In the
Hallow 5+f
bunker was
lying downwards,
the
נתונ
Easte
One
hand still grip. ping a club, The
word
Tole hole at the back of the head was marked with blooll.
Without a
Jaspector Tillet bent enrefully over The man and examined him. When he straightened up. he said, "Bullet hole in the back of th head Shot as he was playing! has piroite. The ball's Just underneath istra."
**You know him?" nghed. Dr. Kang.
1
1
“I come here every year. know everyone. He's the gulf professional here, Heart Sagurat, Also I have a feeling that know why he's been killed." He turned and looked up nero's the links. Fifty yards away a small house slood "on
a slight crest,
That's Monsieur Fleury's house, We'll go up there and I'll tele- parue to the local police."
On the way up
to the house
Inspreter Tillot explained for Dr Kang's bencflt that Monsieur Fleury, now retired, had once been the golf professional on the He disliked his young coume, successor Very rnuch, chiefly because Henri Sagarat was love with Marcelle, the old pro- fessional's niece. Marcelle would
CANNING
in the hollow of the bunker a man was lying... Andr
and from him to the harbourmaster's son. Jacques. Bul fancy Henri Sugarat was at the top of the 1st."
They found Monsieur Fleury, bluff.
cobust-looking man of Saving his breakfast in his pyjamas and dressing-gown. He took the news of Henri Sagarat'a death stondly and with a steady hand poured himself another cup of coffee as the Inspector telephoned the local police.
"Your breakfast Bah Smells dellelous," said Dr Kang.
"It is bream, and at Dis time of year they are at their best, but they must be eaten within a few hours of catching."
"Goed appetite and a clear CORZRIENCE are well-matched. Henri Sagurat's death dues not distress you?"
Henri Sagorat, and then he took the path down the edge of the estuary to the port. He talked with some of the fishermen about Henri Sagurat and the other young men who had been interested in Marcelle.
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“You own a rifle, monsieur?" poked
the Inspector coming back from the telephone.
"I did, until two days ago. It was stolen from my bedroom.”
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60 YEARS ON: ANOTHER ROTHSCHILD-VAN ZUYLEN STORY INTRIGUES PARIS
INDIA
Pivot
The Baron sets a Of
marriage poser
A
From SAM WHITE
Paris, as head of the Consistoire, the was the complete restoration of SITUATION of con- leading Jewish lay body. He the family chapel, the building was, however, dissuaded from of artificial hillocks in the and doing so by the Chief Rabbi of grounds and the transplanting the France.
siderable drama irony has overtaken 48-year-old head of Rothschild family
"True. 'They have worked quickly. He led about his rifle. It was fourd at the bottom of France, Baron Guy small
It
well In his garden. Rothschild.
is k
in
terms
the
in
There was a special historical Marie-Helene is irony in the present situation, doughter
of ill-grown trees. The Countess
grand-
of the van
Zuylen
The
The majority of male Rothschilds who eloped with a Rothschlid. de have married within the Jewish faith and a great many of these
have been between
ween In this last respect,
'Folly'
Examination shows that bullet from the rifle which kill-granted a divorce in Parls from cousins.
The Baron has just been marriages ed Henri Sagarat. The old man, his wife Alix, the
of Baron Guy remains true to the CHIPOWNER Stavros Niarchos that Henri
which too, has admitted
accordance with learned he had monkeyed with French
family tradition for, remarkably has bought ů Parisian low are secret. It is enough, the Countess is a rela-
"folly." some bonds to help himself to
It is on 18th-century slice of his niece's fortune.
known, however, that she has tive of his.
mansion built under Louis XV In 1888 coninental been given custody of their two
society Honr was threatening him with
children.
was shaken by the elopement by a powerful financier
which was given as a present exposure unless fic agreed
At the same time a divorce is and marriage of Baron Etienne day to his mistress, the wife of the marriage."
about to be finalised between van Zuylen and the daughter of a prominent political leader.
Solomon de Rothschild, She was
10
at
"So Monsieur Fleury sat his window and shot Henri while he was playing an early round of golt?***
"Yes," Inspector Tillot shrugged the whole affair away and went on, "You have made! arrangements to leave France
lumorrow?"
Why should I?
ז"
the Count Francoise Nicolay, a member of oldest familles.
One
the
of the
for
of France's the wealthiest heiress of her The woman was famous and his wife day, having inherited from
all her good taste, and it was she Marie-Helene, who was born a three of the Rothschild brothers who supervised the decoration of van Zuyton,
founded an aristocratie who Dutch Catholle family.
banking the house, A showpiece is o The Countess Maric-Helene is 26. She married the Count at the age of 17. Her friends in Paris believe that the Baron and
dynasty,
Unforgiven
the Countess plan to marry in HER mother never forgave her
New York in the spring.
Serious
black marble bathroom sho Installed which still exists..
In the past, the house had a long drive bordered by lime irves, but this has been distroy-
eces hat uns once now inter-
Quote of Week
the
'for marrying a Gentile, nor sect what was once the garden did the De Kang shook his head,
Niarchos is now van Zuylens forgive of the house. Baron Etienne for marrying a engaged in modernising do not wish to leave."
Jewess. Despite the feud which house. "Unfortunately, you must."
broke out as the result between "If I could put the police in
is a grave matter here for
Rothschild my debt-maybe they would
the two families, the head of the Rothschilds money was used to restore the forget
the troubles between us?" to divorce, The head of the "How could this be done?” family held in special veneration near Utrecht,
12th-century van Zuylen castle, JEAN COOTEAU: "After buy- to the then Ing toys for all my grand- "By proving
that Monsieur by the whole of continental
fabulous tune of
and grand-nieces 1 nearly nephews Heart Jewry as a powerful protector, is £3,000,000. murder
suddenly remembered I had the traditional lay leader of his
godson whage existence Tillot frowned. people. For him to marry Д This enormous Gothic castle, alwaye forget. I bought him the Gentile makes the matter even with its 100 bedrooms, has been biggest teddy-bear I could find, more serious,
one of Holland's showpieces ever only to find out later that for The Baron felt this so keenly since. A special feature of the the past five years he has been that he offered to resign his post work financed by the Rothschilds a colonel."
did not
Fleury d Sagaral."
"Epector
Dr Kang smiled, "Why should I help the people who wish to send me from France?"
"Explain," Frid Inspector Tillol impatiently. "1 wili arrange the other."
"Henri Sagarat was not shol by Ficury from the house as he was playing a stroke from that bunker. Sagarat was a profes- stonal golfer. The club that lay under his hord was a putter. What golfer takes a putter to get out of a bunker? No, he was shot elsewhere on the
links and carried to the bunker under the cover of mist."
"Sacre Dieu!" The Inspector
sat ng went
Dr
on blandly.
"The soles of his shoes had no sand on them. Somebody just pitched him face forward into the bunker and put club by his hand. Somebody who wasn't a golfer otherwise he wouldn't have made The silly mistake with the Then
Д
Powers
by JOHN ATKINSON:
THIS is the land of Kask-
where they take. salt in their tea. This is the land which Nehru has drag- ged into India in spite of the United Nations, and in face of a three-million Muslim
majority.
Nehru's threat was chal- longed by Pakistan before the UNO,
· Pakistan said that it was the last chance of peace."
Pakistan has two fears that India is plotting to attack her through Kash- mir; and that Nehru may divert the rivers which feed, Pakistan wheat.
This
is Kashmir .......farmers skim the Jhelum river fa gondola - Like shik- hars boats and sell their Crops in Srinagar, the Venice of the East.
Kashmir is about the sizo
of Britain. It borders India, Pakistan, and is close to Russia.
Indin claims she needs Kashmir
defence
Where Words Are More Perilous buffer. She wants to pre-
I
Than The Sniper's Bullets
From STEPHEN HARPER
Aden.
FLEW with the RAF into a rocky air strip at Dhala near the Aden Protectorate frontier with the Yemen-and found a pot-shot
war.
It is war in which words and the clever use Nasser and Company make of them
are far more dangerous than the bullets that fly who did it and why?" "Somebody who saw Henri as wildly. a rival for Marcelle's hand and
Marauding Yement tribesmen wanted him cut of the way. I in bands 50-strong, armed and
"Yemen fancy. The auctioneer's son-"pald by the
Govern- "But he
plays
the crags golf and ment, roam
of the wouldn't make such a mistake | high mud-coloured mountains
over the putter."
"The bank clerk, Andre?”
"He's on holiday in Paris."
"Then Jacques Bonvals,
the
of the borderlands.
Long range
harbourmaster's son. He doesn't From there they take long- play golf. He has a small fish-range pot-shols at the British
SAUDI ARABIA
YEMEN
SOMALILAND,
BRATE
KADMRAMABUT
ing boat and delivers bream in security forces, attacking the Voice of the Arabs denounce the early Fleur morning to Monsieur homes
of loyal chiefs, and hysterically as "aggression." house. He could steni pillaging.
This is the foundation of the the rifle any time. He СТОБСК They range 40 miles Inside Yemen Government's complaint the links carly each morning—.” the Protectorate's frontier, to the United Nations that "the ·
Inspector Tillot RVOS on his
nearly half-way to ' Britain's RAF? is bombing Yemen foot. "I must go and see the strategie fortress of Aden- towns,” local polico
and the largest oil refinery-in
"Do not forget the matter of my stay in Franco, my friend."
Inspector Tillot smiled. **It
there
I is surrounded by thick rock walls eight feet high and *TCck-built observation towers with loopholes for rifles, Faths are lined with walls
high enough for a .man lo crawl slang under fire,
vent Pakistan getting it and allowing U.S. there.
air
bases
Nehru's family comes from Kashmir.
When Britain split the Indian aub-continent Into India and Pakistan 10 years ago Kashmir's Hindu ruler, Maharajah Hari Singh, handed his State to India, But 80 percent of Kashmir's people are Moslems and rebelled against the handover. Supported by
ormed tribesmen from Pakistan's frontier, the rebels set up a Free Kashmir Govern ment
Shelk Mohammed Abdullah formed a rival puppet gover- ment with the support of In- Pakistan troops. Then troops went in:
The fortress with its 250 men -ILAF Regiment armoured❤ car crews and RAF Regimani- | officered levies-is under
dian fre most nights. So is the camp of the Camerons,
So far the levies have accounted for more than 20 Invaders.
The Yemeni have claimed to have knocked out more "tanks" than the levies have armoured cars. There are no tanks with, the British Army In Aden.]
up
Nasser's ngents back the Cairo "aggression" broad- casts with plotures of an Egyptian sokiler 'shooting at British bombers, *** the world built for £45,000, Dhala to see dust clouds raised We jumped from the plane at 000 after Abadan,
Yemen's radio dally incites Against
by a vehicle approaching at top tribesmen of the Protectorate narauders, you wish, I could get you a job well within the territory for speed over the rocky tracks. A kingdoms to revolt and throw will the Sureto. You would be which Britain is
the British out, 10-ton lorry lurched to a stop. responsible, Invaluable.
the R.A.F. has flown more than From it long-haired Arabs of been more than 70 incidents.
alone there havo "Work for the polica?" Dr Go sortles in the last two the Aden Protectorate levies The Emir Kang shook his head,, “What'
Shanful Bin Ali weeks.
raced, rifles at the irall, for the in Shalf toyed with a farmer ever got rich by planting
gold No bombs have been dropped, nearby peaks to
and boiled potatoes?
handled In the future but the crags where sure-footed attempts to shoot up the
Ivory
curved I shall work, but my fees will tribesmen, some naked except
dagger in his silk belt and told Behind came another
gels worse daily. me: "The situation is bad and
plane,
In Dhala
be high. Work without pro- for blue paint, head feathers, from the nearby fortress camp at is a sack with a hole in it." and bandellers, con dido
aro of the Cameron Highlanders, "I blame the Brilish."'I have: strafed with cannon-fire from Then camo armoured care
R treaty by which they are Venom Jet-Bghler and slower throwing up choking: white bound to protect my people. flying Lincoln bombers,⠀
they arg notsending These are the attacks which Wo went in trucks to the enough troops, to fulfil the Yemen's radio. auki. Nasser's levies fortress, camp,
Thursday: QUESTION OF TAILORING
dusti
tho
Poppies curiay in breeze that sighs* ACIDEN the Alps - but these poppies are blue instead of red..
The fighting stopped eight years ago with United Nations intervention. The United Na tion organised a free vote let Kashmir decide whether to Join India, or Pakistan, The States agreed. But the vote has never happened.
Instead Sheik Abdullah den manded Independence, and was goled. His puppet parliament wielding authority only in tibi zona occupied by Nobru's troops voted for irrevocable ac- cession" to Initia,
On the strength of this vole Krishna Menon has made his marathon statement in the Unibod Nalons, and Nehra ZAR Kiymadą, his grako, eus