THIS
NOW
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1958.
THE BIG PUNCH.. IN TRUE FLEMING- STYLE
@
JAN
FLEMING
THE CASE SO FAR.........
Rockets!
THE SECRET OF CRAB
KEY ISLAND IS OUT...
THE MYSTERIOUS Doctor No holds British Secret Serviceman jamos Bond prisoner on his Caribbean island fortress of Crab Key, With Bond is sea sholt collector Honey. Doctor No talls Bond that as a first step to power he stole the funds of a Chinese secret society and bought Crab Key. With highly paid "slave labour" he built a vast fortune trading in guano. His story is interrupted......
A
CHAPTER TEN
VOICE behind Bond said quietly, "Dinner is served."
It was the bodyguard. Beside him another man who might have been his twin. stood there two stocky barrels of muscle, looked over Bond's head at Doctor No.
Apcton N
His stomach, The knife nestled
on
the
By
Ian
It Happened 40 Years
Ago Today...
Fleming LAST NIGHT
You know them. They weigh about a pound each and they are as big as saucers. At this time of year they coms. up in thousands from their holes near the shore and climb up lowards the mountain.
"They devour what they find in their path, And tonight they are going to find the naked body of a woman pegged out,.,"
A Moan
There was a moan from the girl. Her head fell forward sluckly on to her chest. She had fainted.
OF THE
LAST
TSAR
So much controversy and drama has surrounded the strange story of the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia that it has tended to obscure the horrifying details of the mass murder from
Bond's body heaved in his which, it has been said, she alone escaped.
huge hands of the
left the knife slip back to below prile cut of his voice, "it may No had really got himself into chale The
It happened just 40 years ago, Yurovky led the way down- his armpit and then fall inside interest you to know that the business.
guard were like fire round his
Alexia could not walk Bond reached for his
on the night of July 18, 1910, stairs, chom- arms. He couldn't even move
and was the most ruthless of all and had to be carried by hla the kimone against his ribs. He vast majority of those fallures tightened the silk belt round his have been caused from Crub pagne and emptied the glass, the chair-legs on the floor.
in the blood-stained father In the courtyard out- He mid harshly, "All right,
Doctor No spoke a sentence i crimes waist, Mirting the knife across Res.
Without side, Nicholas could see the diam Doctor No. Now let's get
Chinese. The guard behind history of Bolshevism.
or warning, the
Ho Tvar shape of a motor-iony. with the caborel, What's comfortingly against his sdn.
the girl's chair leaned forward trial
over bullet, and sling the inert body programme - knife,
Nicholas II, his family and four probably assumed it was there loyat attendants, were shot to help in the flight from polson, rope? But make it quick. his shoulder. Between the den- I've seen enough of you."
gling arms the hair fell down down In cold blood by hired Ekaterinburg. in a golden shower. The guard | assassin”, went out, closing the door noise- lessly behind him.
Coffee came and the mital was ended. Doctor No laid his two sicel claws down on the table front of him, "You have enjoyed
dinner, Mister your Bond?"
Bad news
Partners
·
The guard
room.
"The Russiana are my part- ners in this venture. They trained six of my men, Mister Bond. Two of those men are on
For a
there was moment watch at this moment, watching
Bond the radio frequencies, the beams Doctor No spoke a word and silence in the in which these weapons travel. the two guards took a step for thought only of the knife against ward and held the two victims his skin and of the lighter "There is a milion dolla above the elbows, forcing their under his armpit. Could he Bond took a cigarette from worth of equipment above us arms back against the sides of somehow ect within range of
reck gallerica, Mister their chairs. There was no re Doctor No? a sliver ix in front of isim in the and it it. He played with the Bond, sanding Angers up into sistance, Bond concentrated on waiting holding the lighter in his armpit. silver table-lighter. must the Heaviside He somehow pocke: the lighter. Fire for the signals, jamming them.
with other The might perhaps be another wea- countering hears
was They and
Fon.
spoon
It was He said easily, "Yes. excellent." He leaned forward in his chair and rested his fore- Doctor No rose slowly to feeding himself with a
them, enveloping the lighter. his feel. "Come along. We with short handle that fitted on the table. He crossed Lently between the pincera. can continue our conversa Bond concentrated on hiding his tion in more intimate sur- fears from the girl. He talked cheerfully to her about Jamatea. roundings,"
She became utmost gay.
Bond and the girl ful- lowed Doctor No through into a small octagonal maho- gany panelled room lit by a central' chandelier. Beneath it was n round mahogany table laid for three.
Underneath his chatter with the girl Bondd prepared for the worst. There were plenty of weapons beskle his plate.
The flick
When the cutlets exme, per- feetly cooked. Bond fiddled - decisively with the knives and eut chose the brend knife to
and them with. While he ate talked, he edged the big steel meat knife towards him. An ex- pansive gesture of his right hand until knocked over his gines of cham-
He tolded his arms across his chest. The lighter was in his left armpit. He smiled cheer- fully. "And what happens now, Doctor No?"
5u8.
Layer,
Big game
to
endure.
י
Race
The procession came at last to The Bolshevist Government lobby with a smail, heavily In the garden started by forcing the Tear to burred window. abdicate. Then they imprisoned-outside, stood a sentry with o him ut Tsurskoye, Tobolsk and machine-gun:
the finally at Ekaterinburg. In Urals.
By May, 1918, the whole Im- perial family had been arrested and imprisoned at Ekaterinburg In a house belonging to a mor- chant named Ipatley,
The Romanovs descended into the smul semi-basement cham- ber, measuring 18 feet by 10 feet, which the guards used as a dormitory. Here was another 2 laur, grilled window facing
in which other, sentries buck been posted. All these men had
followed.
I's eyes in the pale beans, And from time to time face were blue-black with fear.
Doctor No suid quietly, "Let a rockel soars up on its way u Her ps trembled. She said:
five hundred mtes "Wii hurt?"
Bond hundiste,
Mister your depo ture,
But there was nothing at first Into the Atlantic. Then, sudden-
voice I have just finished constructing the "Silence!" Doctor No's
But the lost of Tsars could an ussauli
to arouse suspicion in the ly, our pulses go out
the crack of a whip. an obstacle ruce,
his The harly hivo realised that
of the nilnds
prisoners. Course against death. plunges Inlo
the "Enough of this foolery. Of
contains murder was being elaborately Nicholas main concern was for gus mad, t rocket, its brain is confused, it was
Не planned, course it will hurt. I am in- gauntlet you will run
thought the im- his suffering wife and son, The a rich assortment of the unex how terested In Anding out
was just another
room was bare of furniture, so much the human body ean pected it will be most interest-prisonment
attempt to degrade and torture he asked for a few chairs. These - One day my
findings ing to observe how far you ge!
were brought in, and Alexandra will be given to the world. Your down the course 3 i:ave devised. his family.
to Kil were able "I have high expectations of
The prison house freed a large and Alexis
kept Father and son in which
the down. stood EQUATO, when, as is inevitable, you have
their hats on as if expecting the Chuich poses of selence.
Ascension. finally folled at an obstacle,
Bananeys arrival of a vehicle to take them your body will be recovered and None
could see it. however, be- away. meticulously I shall most
Caliso . hoarding surrounded physical state of examine the
them, and their windows were "It is a year since I put a girl your remains. The data will be
The Tsas, whitewashed, to deuth in the fashion I have
recorded. Something
Alexandra and 14-year-old chosen for you, woman. She was honour, is it not, Mister Bond?"
Alexis shared one upstairs room. a Negress. She lasted
us proceed to the method of Drunken Guards a clear plew of the events which
"Do you not fad that interest destus will have served the pur you. You should go far, but
Ing. Mister Bond, this little side "Ah, yes. You must have been jim to my business in guano? wondering. Mister Bond. So I it is. I assure
you, mas! pro- will tell you. There is more to table. It might be still more so. this place than båd dụng. Your Perhaps Communist China will Sistinets vaid ro betray you.
puy, more. Who knows? I already This Island. Mister Bond, is have my feelers out." about to be developed into the most valuable technical intel- ilgence centre in the world."
"Really?"
The hollow ceremony and the charming room mad- dened Bond. He longed to own break it up with his hands to, wind his silk napkin round Doctor No's throat and squeeze
"Perhaps you hove read of the contact lenses popped pagne, and in the split second the American rockols that have out of the black, damnable crash his left und fick ben going astray recently?"
eyes.
Doctor No slowly ate through the bowls of different soup.
ed the knife into the deep sleeve
of his kimono.
. "Yes,"
Astray
"Well, Mister Bond," Doctor In the midst of the confusion Bond raised his left arm and No could not keep a
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The crabs
three
Bond lifted his eyes. He look-
thoughtfully at Doctor No. hours. She died of terror. I have
had been right. This was wanted a white girl for
com-
a big game, o game that ex- partson." plained everything, a game that
His eyes were fixed on the was certainly, in the interria-
reactions. tional espionage market, well girl, watching her
him, She stared back at
half worth the candie.
1:ypnotised.
.
Privacy? Of course Doctor No would have to kill him and the
This island is called girl. Power? This was it. Doctor Key. It is infealed with
ROUND
UP
FLYING SAUCER WILL
SOON BE REALITY.
HOL
TOLIDAYMAKERS and re- sidents at Yarmouth, isle of Wight, are not dreaming when they see д flying saucer-a working model of the "Cramp wing" on its trials-which its designer Mr Leonard Cramp, of Yarmouth, an aircraft designer, clalma would put Britain ahead of the world in the aircraft race, The machine possesses all the advantages of a heilcopter with none of its disadvantages. Cir eular in shape, it will be cap- able of supersonic speeds and
passengers. carry up to
on
It
I will have neither struts nor spars and be equally at home water, Tho land and machine is claimed also to solve the problem of aero-dynamic beating which turns cartli satel
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1,000 SPORTING
TROPHIES ON SHOW
LAIMED to be the biggest exhibition of sporting
from
trophies eyer presented in Britain, the Stanley Matthew Exhibition of Sport is drawing the crowds to Blackpool's Olympia. To miso funds for a now £60,000 home for the blind exhibition the at Blackpool,
1,000 presenta over
of the most famous trophice world'e
every branch of "sport, Many top sporting personalities, Including Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney, cycling champion Reg Harris, and The British heavyweight boxing champion, Brian London were present at the opening ceremony, Five committee
the members of Blackpool and Fylde Society for Blind bavo covered thousands of miles in the last three monthe collecting the trophlen from all parts, of the United Kingdoma..
the
Crnb crabs
of an
TOMORROW
Bond in the cell
of of
the
Screams Of Agony
in
The rest of the prisoners stood groups, the chambermaid In the room next duer were clutching two plilows, She may the Grand Duchesses O have brought them for comfort, nged 23, Tollana, 21, Meriu, 19 but more likely because personal and Anastasia 17. The other trinkels were hidden inside. prisoners wero
4
the forally
physician, Dr Botkin, & foot- Suddenly the doorway was
the man Trupp,
royal chef Olled with eleven of the murder Haritonov,
chambermaid gang. Yurovsky advanced into death
"Your chamber. "Dr No" is to be published by | Demidova, and a small boy the Jonathan Cape.
tried to atten- relatives have Leonid Sednev, Alexis
you," he sold the Romanovs, Down below were the "but they have falled and wo drunken Bolshevist
guards, are compelled to shoot you."
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JOHN ELLIOT
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SAY GOO
"I should ignore it, Sir, unless, of course, it is their contribution to the economy proposals wo asked for."
LAMBETH CONFERENCE
"The question of whether they woor clerical collars or not, my dear Bishop is irrelevant to the question of Church-unity.”
by Friell
cant and playmate.
A dozen revolver shots
MAYO
rang.
under the command of Alexand Avdelev Sentries paced Inside out, and most of the prisoners the garden. Others were died instantaneously. Alexis, stationed outside rooms and ca
however, wAS only wounded Kha stairs. Madine-gunners and screamed in agony watil were also posted at strategic Yurovsky fired three more shots points throughout the building. at pointblank range.
The Assassins
+
The Russien sentries cald Anastaste also survived the first shots, and fought desperately The prisonem had no privacy, with the murderers until they Avdelev and his assistants broke finally led her. But her fate into their rooms without warn- will always be a mystery. It ing, sat at the same table for seemed s if even the cold- meals and reached in front of blaned assassins foundIt them to clutch food with itby dimcult to aim straight at the hands. Greasy elbows were boy and girl. deliberately thrust in the Tsar's
fuce,
Danidova's pllows had shield- But she did
The family ato stalo black ed her completely. bread and watery soup, out of not cacape. Seizing their rifles the tocassins bayoneted her to death. Although she was only
one dish and with wooden spoons. Alexandra bechnie 11
and lived only on macaroni. a peasant giri, they assumed she
high-born mald
Soon she was unable to walk.
Gradually, however, an extra- orilinary change came over most
Woo ц honour.
of the Russian guards The Bodies Dumped
men who had revolted the grand
duchesses with bawdy songs
and obscene remarks seemed to
of
Yurovsky ordered his men to
be moved by the prisoners dump the bodies in the writing acceptance of suffering.
Floors and walls word lony..
Nuns were allowed to bring washed to remove all traces of. milk and other comforts to the to crime. But after the corpses and family, and even Avdelev now were taken to the woods referred
"the burned in a pit, the peasants to Nicholas as
who found the remaine had no Emperor"
But Moscow heard that the doubt as to their identity. guards were becoming kinder,
Before leaving for Ekaterin- and dismissed them.
had burg the women
Безуть The new commander of the family jewels worth £100,000.
into their bodices, hats and even
Yenkel
"special purpaso house" was a professional assassin, Yurovsky, the son of a Jewish buttons, Precious stones and platinum treasures convict. A mysterious man; ho Gold and
were Bettered among the had received good deal of
charred corset frames, buttons money from Germany, for un-
and metal buckles the peasants explained services,
found, Also in the pit was the body of a small dog. It was Jommy, tho · Conty's King Charles spaniel which Anestesia is claimed to have clutched in her arms as she died.
Midnight
Yurosveky brought with him
25
a "equad of men announced Lotts - Slave — but who were Four days after the murders, really Magyars or Magyarised the Russian Government re Germans. They word
the ported the shooting of Nicholas murder gang, By Tuesday 11, but only after a trial and as
plana "on Act morning, July 10, their
of necessity",
"safely con- were complete. The boy Bednew family had been was removed and never seen veyed out of the city", the ustain..
Government said, ka the way, At 7 p.m.. Yurovsky gave they tried to avoid in investiga- orders to the remaining Russian tion, and for 蘊 time they warder, Medvedov, to collect succeeded.
some revolvers,
Tut the
Own
the
evidence
WEX too A few minutes after midnight, overwhelming to hide the truth the Jew woke the Imperial for ever. Ignoring their family in their rooms, He told admission a year before, them there was 'trouble in the Bolshevista Announced, -
which city,
might endanger September 1918, the trial of 25 of the their lives. They had to leave at non for the "murder" ORIDO The prisonera wusted imperial. fatally, and actually and dressed and put on over- sentenced to death several of couts and hats ready for their the "gocused“. "Journey"
-(Express Service).