THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1957.
HI-YA SOCIET
HALT
靈
SINGLE
CAUTION] LANE
The day 將電路
they made me
WHERE is no sound in the world
quite like the din of a police car gong. Especially when it is just behind
you.
And the calm that follows stretches from days to weeks. Then the postman calls and there ON the breakfast table beside your two-minute eggs is a most pressing invitation.
The local magistrates desire to discuss with you the matter of your speed In a restricted
moments like
ores,
that
It is at that the average man loses his head completely. After explain- ing to everyone in earshot how he is the victim of the grossest miscarriage of Justice since Joan of ATC, he goes to, offee and dictates a letter
his 10
the court which explains that
he didn't do it, he wasn't there.
Too cool
And if he
was and he did,
then he was a harry to get
to a business appointment.
He encloseA a blank cheque
and his driving licence.
I did no such
thing.
Mind you, I did
point out to my nearest and dearest that mine really was 14 miscarriage of Justice. Then I went
to my lawyer,
He is
good
fellow. For drawing
a
No sound quite like it....
BY THE UNEXPECTED INVESTIGATOR
THEY call her, this Unexpected Investigator, Vulgar: they call her Unscrupulous: they HAVE called her the worst dressed woman in Britain.... But nobody-no, NOBODY has ever donlod she can use her eyes and use her pen. For days now
criminal
And so I joined the felons.
ROBIN NICHOLAS was gonged
and fined....... It's the thing that
might happen to any motorist
up wills, coping with rent acl
and such like he is admirable.
But
she has been flying in the one square mile in Europe which outshines, all others for luxury, vanity, chic, and self-indulgence.... *HI-YA Society Investigator. ...
COMRADES OUT OF AFRICA
By GEORGE HOGAN
In the vast Exhibition Building at Earl's Court, London while preparations were in progress for the opening of this year's Royal Tournament, that grand spectacle of the Fighting Services, a young British ofleer met again the African orderly who saved his life in Kenya three years ago.
Here I think my counsel They met, but Second Lieutenant falled badly. Instead of sighing Michael Tetley could not recognise and drooping he should have Corporal Regulton of the 23rd Battalion produced that rolling rhetoric, King's African Rifles who had stood over
Tapler-stabbing CTOSS- examination that would have his wounded body and fought off the reduced those policemen to attacking Mau Mau terrorists on that rubble.
day they both well remember-February
that
He did nothing of the sort. 6, 1954. For Michael Tetley is blind. A He had an argument about
times and distances that sound-bullet entered his left eye on that fateful ed like the annual report of the day and came out below his right ear. borough surveyor.
But there was my turn. Into the witness box I went. This
Before that happened he had shown courage and initiative when leading his was where I would be shown as platoon in a fight with a well armed an upstanding citizen who
would never break the law, company of the Hika Hika gang of Mau It was a pity my first fine Mau iommanded by "Brigadier Batu dignity was a bit dented when | Batu." During an advance in thick I was told to speak up.
country some terrorists were seen to be When my counsel showed no Intention of making me the Sir hiding in long grass by a group of huts. Launcelot of the roads The young subaltern immediately rushed thought I would take over and forward alone into their midst and sprayed do the job myself.
them with bullets, killing two and wound- ing several others.
Request
All I got was a pained frown and a polite request to answer "Just yes or no."
I gave up. There was only the Impassioned defence plea to come and I didn't give much for
its chances.
ringing. And one is and odd coloured socks. Just perts
imagine what the defence is gu But it sounded beller than promptly downeast,
Counsel stands there in black ing to do to them. didn't like this attitude jacket and pinstriped
expected. I certainly convinced towards my cause celebre in the He looks like
trousers, And their viclima.
me and, as my counsel told the a shop walker, The excuses they gave when Bench, the case was in great least. ilc was too conl, too Where is the gown to bitch up they wore stopped,
"What? dispute. tranquil, a little too inclined to
telling
point? Me!"
And sure enough the "I wasn't looking."
Bench see both sides of the question, as he make
"Can't you let me off?**" huddled together and disputed A man like that has not got Where is the wig-yellowed with
like med. the fire and the burning zeal the years of famous court cases?
Pathetic to readjust the slipping blind- fold of justice.
1 demanded counsel, From the moment you have counsel you, undergo 1 zea- change.
Impressive
think what the man is costing.
The explanation that gowns Bre not worn because the Bench has one is no consolation,
I
But there are compensations, While all my Tellow travellers in trouble had to hang about foyer. varnished in trencie, went to a le secret room where the final polish is put on the defence.
Nanchalance
Comes the day when the magistrates expect to meet you "No smoking" said the notice at 10 o'clock in the morning. In the room. My counsel lit a with nonchalance. One is there in ample time cigarette for a first glimpse of this adve- Whose spirits could help rising cate who is going to set the law in the company of a man with such fine disregard for official- dom.
Two minules
later
I dis-
As the remainder of the gang scnt- tered he reformed his platoon, straighten- ing out the line with the rest of the com-
any and then led his Askaria forward to. attack the terrorists who were now firing from cover. More Mau Mau were killed but the advance was held up by accurate fire.
of
ex- first class
In search of more 50 rifles and hand-made grenades Lieutenant Tetley guns. The citation recorded; moved among his men com- "He has the qualities and covered that the only argument pletely ignoring his per- has done all that one they were having was about the sonal safety. It was then pects
Boldier." size of the Anc.
that he Wag seriously Though I did get a ono
wounded and homily from the chairman...
Corporal Now he is a patient at St that's more than the others got. Reguton, his personal order. Dunstan's and is studying
As far as I can remember hely, came to his nid, standing physiotherapy. said I looked exactly the kind
And their pathetic fetlers. No wonder the Bench shrugged and ploughed through them at the rate of about every five minutes.
great
listle
MBE
Was
his
When he
by The
Read Unexpected
this. page tomorro!
PERFECT WAY TO GET
A HEADACHE
YOU know the sort of person who is precisely punctual, who is over concerned with trivial detail, who hates to depart from strict routine well, Mrs Wallace was like that. She was so fussy that it wouldn't have surprised me if she washed her hands after having a bath.
Often these
people are of emotional tension. "Stop, rest and intelligent, yet they stop," the signal infers, Tako spend a twopenny halfpenny it easy." Some doctora "cläim stamp to send someone a bli that eight out of ten people who for twopence.
have migratnous headaches can be cured if they They may give other people with their emotional problems.
are helped occasional headaches, but they tend to guffer regulur headaches "I don't think I havo
problems, Mrg clared,
themselves.
"excopt
yבות
Wollaed dem my young worried about
And as these weaklings paid their anes and tiptoed out of court I had a burning desire to catch them by the arm, persuade of character who would try to over his body and fighting met
Askari orderly One is inclined to turn club
them to stay to listen to a really take away the good name of a off the attackers until they again at Earl's Court the On the way I passed a gaggle conversations round to forts and of policemen having a
defence. To sce what hard working policeman. He dispersed. shirly
Reguton wrila just for
sounds of military prepara- the chance to
sald the impression had struck mentioned in dispatches for bring in "My counsel says" or or was there a
cigarette, Was it my imagination could be done.
It was time for me to be put Elm forcibly as 50on is he touch of panic in front of the dock. I resented entered the court.
"Pay £2, his bravery and devotion to tions were going on around "My counsel advises, ..."
in their stares? Were they say this, Why wasn't I allowed to please."
them. The 'Services atmo duty. This is most impressive and if ing 10 themselves sumething
stand in that little wooden pen, It was four minutes pas! noon
sphere was one they both your barrister gets stuck with about a Deniel come to ludg writing careful notes with a gold when I joince the criminol some very odd opinions,
understood, but their minds then ment?
Immaculate, cool, pencil,
and classes,
went back to a different radiating condence?
Outside the court my counsel Magistrates take a very cruel and I met.
aspect of soldiering under Michael Telley, for his a hot sky and in the silence "It WAS a pretty advantage with this headmaster-
hopeless Indignation part in this action and for of the open country where tring schoolboy approach and I case," he said. My
to the A.A. about seethed and bubbled but all courage, leadership and ini-
every bush held danger. am writing
could say was "You did remark- tiative displayed on other t
It was the first police witness ably well"
"I don't think I'm that moti- daughter;' I'm occasions, was awarded the Perhaps Michael Tetley eulous" Mrs Wallace protested her billous bouts" who quoted me as saying when And then the confounded
"What? Me? I fellow asked for a lift and all M.B.E. He was responsible was best able to recapture "In any case, doctor, what's all Very often I was stopped
the offspring of wasn't looking."
with my migrainous parents suffer from the time talked about casts he for the killing and capture the old scene. Certainly ho this got
periodic billöus attacks. Doctors had saved from disaster.
recently of over 60 terrorists during was not distracted by the migraine?"
have called these Not quite all the time. Once three months operations faces around him. He She didn't know that there attack "abdominal migraine. he paused to say "Look out
such thing as migrain- It has long been known there's a police car over there," and for the capture of about could not see them....
that oug personality. Like
Mry migraine runs in families. Wallace, these headachy people now it is established that child
"headaches" feel their responsibilities keenly, ren can suffer They are perfectionists who their stomachs. want things to be Just do. "I thought the stomach- Socially they are as proper as a brain were connected only in duchess on ddality and correct as men," Mrs Wallace said drily, alone, first with Lenin, then two and two making four.
"Yes," whose bust she with Trotsky. caressed with her land as she said,
but talked,
that's why I've come to "Then, Gandhi; ho was truly HOC you
always sorry Theso hand- that Winston refused, to meet | eches Inter- himkir
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Frio the court I went. In front just below the Bench sat my counsel with bright-backed | legal books in front of him. ...
(Shouldn't
they look
Htle more dusly?)"
It was the second who looked at his book and recalled I had ulso said "Can't you let me off just a this time?"
1 sat the back sneering at
the police patrolmen witnesses
What a fou they looked with- The rebel who made Sir Winston see red
standing around.
on. Reeeding
rounded
et their caps halr and
shoulders, without their cat's and their Intimidating gongs they look Hike Jockeys without herseJ.
They even wear red and green pullovers under their uniforms
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Anne Scott-James
VERY so often, the Now 72, still
stiff, dull ranks of hearted
warm-
and vital, still
High Society throw beautiful with blue eyes and a shock of curly white hair,
up a rebel.
I have been talking to sho lives in an Italianate
house hi Hastings. Clare Sheridan, sculptress, adventurer, and mystic, who has just published the story of her stormy life.*
We sat and talked in a studio full of busta- Trotsky, Lenin, Gandhi Churchill-and of blocks of A daughter of one of "the wood waiting to be carved. three" lovely Jeromes," For her adventures are by Clare Sheridan makes her no means done.
Д
BLANK SHERIDAN
*) 1920 painting by Cienta Diri
cousin, Winston Churchill, "I long for fresh experi- seem vory conventional ences," se told me. "I want bird. Indeed, he has spent to go to China and do a a lot of time in the last 50 head of Chou En-lai. I con- years ticking her off. for her sider him a
very great he first gave me wild behaviour.
leader. Perhaps one day Socialisin For in that time sho has the Chinese will rule the bren Bolshevik and Roman world.' Catholic, has known palaces
and poverty, travelled from the Sahara to the Rockles, [been awayed. by Munthe.. Trotsky, Gandhi, the Pope, and had a flaming row with Mussolini..
L
Į
He cared
the idea
of
a saint. I was
Great friends
was
to do
she
fern with my Gocial life"
It is strange
how migrain-
I asked if Sir Winston had ous headaches
forgiven her for going to Russla often occur at
in The twenties, for he
All in a
doctor's
day: by
CEDRIC
CARNE
ASSOCIATED
But
in
and
I explained how the younger the child the more frequently WIS migraine
manifested in
abdominal symptoms, As children Prow older abdominal
symptome become. Icas marked and the headaches more prominent.
a kid," Mra Wollsco admifted, "I myself-used
"When I
WOR
•
to get those bouts of billous
was week-ends and holidays. When feelings. They said it was che
furious at the time, while her others are rowing down the father was so ashamed that he river on a sunny morning the retrieved f
to my appendix, and in fact dared not set foot in White's. migrainous people are lying on
their beds with the curtains say that they can
Some fashionable SuryCons "Yea, Winston is
an old mon drawn. It is as if all their anancially well off a lady is by now and his memory is not very worry about detall during the the number of scars on we are the greatest of working week has caught up abdomen. This may be friends I am most anxious to with them just when it is time fetched but undoubtedly a ma
good,
And out how he will react to to relax,
iell how
her
for
'moved when all they have is
"abdominal migraine."
my painting-since Christmas I "I suppose mental overwork of young people are stil have started painting in oils.can make the brain ache," Mrs having normal appendices ro-
Wallace said. "We nover, discuss, politics, | we clash no violently..
"But we bave much in com- 1
LIKE A BLUSH
"So atop worrying about your young daughter,” I mià, "there. 'is_nothing wrong organically.
"Then, Troisky, who alone of the early Communist leaders cared for art, and helped me 'mon; for one thing, "The Jerome But headaches are not caused with migraine mufferers, whether when I sculpted him. Tho, rent gift of long life. He has out by the brain aching. The pain the migfainn be contred in the were absorbed by the revolution, lived all his political generți-is simply due to blood vessels hoad or in the abdomen."!! but he was a Jew and coud noi tiòn, and I still have toy strong | widening and stretching. insked her
More to the paint) as I had who were the shut his eyes to art. They were right arm for modelling in wood exciting people she has obecnied, but he could be wlity or stone. I can't believe I may vessels round the brain open for preciseness and perfection. "Emotion, makes these blood indicated earlier, was, her thirst met, for Mrs Sheridan has and gay."
have only 10 more youre to live. wider, " I explained: "The same Only Mra Wallace" wouldn't known hall the garnt figures of
"People say I have had a as those vosols in the skin de agreo she was like that an this century.
Mrs Blackcon was amuzzled, sempenazis life, but I wouldn't when wo blusti," "Firm I would say Axol vian-lem, to Moscow in the first chango it.
Pour "Anyway I must go, doctor," To the Four Winds (Andra Munthe, I sayed with him in terrifying phase of Holsbrviam,
Indeed beadache - in offen, she said, glancing at the clock.-- 130 virtue in nothing more than a red signal "Tye aready taken 30 milautan Deutsch, 529.).
Capri when I was young, and and spent moma dioxy adiga socauity."
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