THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1958,"F
IRON
CURTAIN LAND
THIS IS WHAT I FOUND IN THIS
Russian jet fighters join mass manoeuvres
The bishop who reads Pravda
Thousands hauled off to slave camps
RED SECRETS From inside
I probe Albania
From SYDNEY SMITH: Rijeka, Yugoslavia.
TODAY I send you this news-despatch
the
on the secrets of Albania, Russia's spearhead country looking into Mediterranean-and I am the first staff reporter of any British newspaper to have probed this land of Iron Curtain secrets for 10 years.
This is what I found:-
lin's prize strategic base be a bishop and stay free in facing Nato's southern Albania today if you know Bank.
how.
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Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia 3 Allania is a virtual con-
centration camp for all has no ustons about how the ita 1,100,000 people and in- Albanians hate him. As I steam- - side it there are 50,000 slave rd up the Adriatle in a stuffy, 211- workers. A similar num-elling Yugoslav steamer, nows Soviet Albanian ber have disappeared in the manoeuvres was just beguning past 13 years.
to creep along the coast.
4 in a lakeside hotel at
of
the
We ron smack into some ohips of Tile's navy, blowing black smoke and zig-zagging around
strange-looking landing craft, Tito is un the look-out for houble from Soviet-dominated
Pogradets, two miles Tito's warships watch from the Yugoslav frontier, I met the Greek Orthodox Bishop of Argyrocastru, a figure splendid soldierly with a long black beard. He was on holiday and playing cards with the locals.
There was £1 copy of Pravda, the Soviet Com munist Party newspaper, in the bishop's lap. You CAN
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Albutia
KOREA
The bus, a Zil from the Lik- At that lakeside tourist hotel The Russians keep to them- achev factory in Moscow, in Pogradeiz, where I met the selves and the strict orders from stopped outside the email town bishop who reads Pravda, I went Moscow are that Albpeia must police for an innocent row on the lake be left to feel a sovereign inde- of Lushnle and armed
in blue, Russian-made uniforms in a gally painted little dinghy, pendent country. said a few curl words to driver.
the
Ahead of us police were turn- ing back other buses, heavy Czech and Russlan built collecive-farm lorries and even light, horse-drawn traffic.
As I sailed back slowly in the
The regular visits to MonD W evening I noticed two Albenion of the 50-year-old First Secre- rowing a corkscrow tary of the Communist Party, soldlers course roughly in my direction. Enver Hodin-Albania's Krush- They were shouting.
chev-are not usually revealed to the Albanians.
Locked up
He returned only last week more thon month in Moscow and a long spell of Five minutes later they were medical treatment at Karlsbad in He is suffer-
"A bridge has fallen down," ak my interpreter in French, "We must go back." This was odd because we Bod mel Beveral not only shouting but waving a Czechoslovakia.
at me. I find overstayed ing from chronic Maltese fover. collapsed bridges already
and gun In an attempt to keep these had by-pussed them by swinging curfew time and the Yugoslav
When Hodja is away, public attention is more exercises secret the Albanians off the rund and driving through border was only two miles away.
1 was shepherded back at tried closed the southern third of their dry river-beds or fields with no country, from Korca in the cast trouble at all.
"Why did the bridge collapse" gunpoint and told this was to Mehmet Shehu, a vigorous, out to Valona on the coast--where the Russians have landed rocket. I asked. A shrug by the inter- protect me from the Yugoslav speken ex-partisan leader whose launching
and preter. "I just collapsed. It wil equipment south to the Greek frontier, take some days to repair. We border at dusk. About 3,000 square miles in all, shall not be able to go further
south."
sentries who shoot
over
un Prime
the chief hatred
and Yugoslavia.
My boat, and all the others. I learned that the Rupalan-led air and sea tranoeuvres lasted 10
including the shermen's <raft days and were the biggest I bumped into this closed zone Back in the capital, Tirana, in the area, went Into a barbed demonstration the Soviel has yet as I travelled in a Russian-built I had proof that Albania is truly wire pen al night under armud made on her Mediteranean front. bus 60 miles north of Valona, the last stronghold of Stalinism. guard.
Crimes punished
ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY by CEDRIC CARNEUKANUNG
Has
your holiday
done you good?
MBANG
too
сопсел
Minister
Is Marshal Tito
Guns ready
There was one grim and final- Ilustration of the Iron Curtain grip on Albania as I crossed the frontler into Tito's country,
Because Albonio is a prison comp for Albanians, all boats on all the three main lakes cut by the Yugoslav border are kept In this eity the Russian by the army of night, diplomatie members and the Albanion In Tirona the suspect or the under the BATT:Cr
mission
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The Russian-built Albanian bus had to turn round. The only way to do this was to pasa on the
leader live in garden villas foreigner is followed more dis Albanian-side and we a wide diotled over restricted
dress ervelly than on Pogradelz luke. space in neutral no-man's-land,, guarded by police and troops.
Trailing is done from a series Yugoslav guard,
the nearest 50 yards free Nobody con enter without #
of screened telephone booths. written permit.
Torrified of s neighbours, some behind the front doors of living enly by the grace of the houses, some behind Russian rouble, this city of double doors of pleasant-looking with revolver hopped Tirana is redder than Joe Stalin Hardens.
ever was,
Communist Party executives admitted to me: "Moscow. particularly for
the big area an Albanian ormy officer
As the bus moved into this
D
in
CT
Secret visits
driver beside the
and Albanian soldier clicked off the als Russian safety catch of burp-gun (shades of Korea!) and moved in front of the bus.
THERE are those who come back from a holiday healthier for the break. They T
whistle into the office, slamming dors energetically and talk that little bit
directives, There are those whom the holiday has seemed and minelayers. in man-louder, laugh just a little more often.
seems The telephone
punishment of crimes against It is impossible to visit any undermine. They sit at their desks listlessly. staged 80 milesto
the State, aro more strictly house, hotel or cafe withou: applied here than in Russia the focal watchpost reporting the Yugoslav sentry, leaning at But you would have thought
itself. They have to be. are surrounded by enemics."
Oeuvres
1 About 100 Russian jet from Nato's rudur network heavy for them even to lift,
fighters and squadrons at Brindisi in Italy.
of twin-jet fighter bombers,
Mr Miller had just returned from his holidays. with Albanian pilots, have 2 The Soviet fist is clench-that he'd just had bed and breakfast in hell. joined Soviet submarines,
more tightly escort craft, forpedo boats, ever on Albania, the
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Vo
you in.
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One man in 10 is secret The hand of the Kremila Is
But the revolver and the
burp-gun were not pointed at
ease against his frontler post.
They were both pointed at the
of her sympathy from their friends
Later axl ductors us, say, a man with policeman or a police informer. firm on the Ministries of Tirana driver of the Albanian bus
pneumonlu
than "The holiday made me worse," church reminded har Krem-e grumbled. "Since I've rome furcoming wedding.
back I've got epols in front of when she broke off her engage my eyes and I also seem to get ment she could pas a cathedral short of breath."
without getting a single twinge. NO NEED TO WORRY
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It means that people aldle up to...but mat Albonlans naver you and say: "What Instruc-- see it, "I tell y
11 this. Mrtions did your Government give Each Albanian Ministry has a "because you before they Jet you come Russian advisor, at ministerial Miller," I continued, there's no need to worry. Your here?" symptoms are not the result of frightful muss. Moreover they'll soon disappear.” Once he got back awing of his job, once he'd gol I diabi't mean that at all. The on top of the accumulated chaos lady had real, vivid, agonising and chores resulting from his pains. They were not imaginary. absence, like others he would be Neither were the spots beface 100 per cent again.
This time of the year many patients of mine turn up with post-holiday blues. Naturally
"You mean my symptoms, they don't complain of that. Instead they say: "I've suddenly like hers, are purely imaginary." lost my appete," or "Since I've Mr Miller objected. come back my head-eches have come back too." Or they com- plain of symptoms rather like 10 of Mr Miler.
THE REAL TROUBLE
Wrongly they soclate their as ceni B
into the
Mr Muler's eyes or his short- There are many like you," 1 ners of breath.
said, "who need a holidny from Sursa can produce symptoms, work to get brown, and then those caused by afterwords have to work that state of being run down with virulent germs or by poison. little extra to get back into the Their holiday. They blame the. And much patients need as much pink.” weather. They blame the foot They blame the salt in the tea. Anything excopt the real trouble.
"And the real trouble is that thery're not on holiday any longer." I said. Returned, they have to face facta. They have
to thee the extra work that's
ROUND-UP
piled up. Having lost the habit 80 YEARS IN SAPPERS
of working for a while they
rebel against putting their
brcks into it" and the next MORE than 80 years' service in the Royal Engineers by father
thing is that they come into my surgery with symptoms.
"Grmed that going back to work can be a bind." Mr Miller agreed, "but I don't quite 500 the connection between that particular post-hollday feeling and actul clinical symptoms"" Most people realise that cer lain feelings have to find an
outlet. Ang into red, rude
and so has come to an an end with the retirement of Major William George Shaw, District Surveyor, Home Counties District. Shanelle Major Shaw joined the corps as a bugle boy In 1911. His His pay was dd. a week, less 14d, for bartack damages father, Captain W. J. Shaw, was a member of the Royal Engineers for 35 years. Major Shaw has been responsible for War Depart- ment building schemes in Kent, Surrey and Sussex since he was posted in Shorncliffe in 1940.
MEETS OLD COMRADES
A FIRST World War general, now in his 89th. year, and officers
who served with him in France and Belgium 43 years ago met
Bnt-
words. Griet into tears. Bolto up anger or grief or other kinds a number of old comrades at a recent Newcastle dinner. He is of frustrations and tensions arki General Sir J. S. M. Shea, who commanded the 151st. Infantry: the body can rebel. With Brigade in the 50th. Division from July, 1015, to May, 1916.
time comprised the 6th, 7th, 8th. headache. With dizziness, With talions in the brigade at that
and 9th. Battalions, The Durham Light Infantry, and the 5th. Bat- gastric discomfort after meals.
Lallan The Border Regiment. Some of their officers and others from With over as well as under
the 1511. Machine Gun Company, 151 Field Ambulance, Royal cating.
"Yes, and with shariness of Artillery and Royal Engineers, comprised the 33-strong reunion. I said. General Shea, who lives in London, expressed a keen desire to Mr Miler." breath,
meet survivors of his brigade, and locating so large a number out "And spots before the eyes."
of a dwindling band was no mean feat on the part of the dinner organisers, Colonel Sir Thomas Bradford, of Durham, presided over the dinner and those present included Colonel Sir Robert | Chopman of South Shields.
HOLIDAYS AFLOAT
'ADDED BURDENS
In other words I was talking about stress. The stress and resentment of being involved in
and so un.
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Even with only 50 yards to go freedom....he would not have made it.
And he did not try,
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CHURCH LAUNCHES A DISCREET ORGANISATION COUNTER THE RISING RATE OF 'MIXED' MARRIAGES
T
Roman Catholics
set
up a cut- price wedding bureau
by JOHN LAURIE
IE Roman Catholic Church has started a cut-price marriage bureau. It finds a bride for three guineas and a husband for two against normal marriage bureau fees of about £20.
The marriage bureau is one of the ways the Roman Catholic Church is fighting what it considers to be an alarming rise in "mixed" marriages-marriages between Roman Catholics and non-Roman Catholics.
At present one in every three Roman Catholics who marry does so outside tho faith. An international conference in Amerien which discussed the problem was warned that the proportion will go on rising.
500 marriages so far
Just how many of the 70,000 women in their middle thirties marriages registered In Beltish looking for husbands in the pro Catholic parishes are ""mixed" fessional clesses - doctors, jaw- is a closely kept secret. But a yers, and so on. Church marriage expert told me "We are disappointed at not the other day: "The rise is being able to help more of them, unfortunate thing is that alarmufg because so little can be The
most of the men we get 370 done about it,
altogether added difficulties at work,
"Our own matlage bureau was rather younger or having to get on with, the boss N their summer holidays keeping watch on the bridges of cargo- MEN from offices and factories in the London area are spending
started to try to neduce it. We older, and more inclined to be liners and amall coasters. For anything up to three weeks they are discussing the best ways to of the labouring type,
"But people are very under- "A man who comes back to
are serving as unpaid watchkeepers on hips bound for the Con- operate it on a bigger scale." work with a bang following
Unent and around the British coast. This is how the Merchants The bureau the Catholic standing and patient. There are holiday," said to Mr Miller, Navy ls, helping train members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Sup- Introductions Bureau is run very few complaints or letters does so not merely because of plementary Reserve, London Flotilla, About 150 members are from a one-room office in West asking for money back." the holiday but
Couples do not meet unti because he is making trips this summer with the assistance of about 20 shipping Dulwich by 38-year-old Mr
cach has filled in a question- on top of his job. The opposito lines. The scheme has been growing rapidly and has become more D. G. Goldie. applies to the man who returns important since the cute in the Royal Navy. The London Flotilla Like its customers, it is shy, naire and heen vetted by Mr to work with a whimper,” has 800 members, all ex-officers.
Said Mr Goldie: "We have not Goldie, who is married
"I mind the Of course,
Iman a ploture okres situation
sought publicity. We do not
ask if want to be pestered by un of the girl and desirable people."
would like meet her,"
"If he docs I ask the More than 30 people each #ld. week answer its discreet notices girl what she thinks about it, in parish magazines and on They make their own KETANKO- church notice-boards.
meni after that."
symptoms don't only occur following holidays. Some people become ill when certain events talso place.
Recently I had a pallent who developed abdominal cramps for no apparent reason. I kept her at home, my bed, and she bocamo woll in no time at all, But as soon as she went out Into the streets the symptoms Fo'urbed. It took some time to discover that her abdominal crampe began each corned a churchs
time' sho
ANCIENT cat
HAS "Mammy," the black and white tabby owned by Mr and Mrs A. Jaffray, of Kintore, Aberdeenshire, set up a world record for long life? Mummy" was 38 this mouth and, although toothless, sho still enjoys a good meal A member of the Aberdeen University "I have heard of a cat over 20 yeaRTE Zoology Department said:
Five hundred carriages old but certainly not over 30." An Aberdeen, veterinary suregon have boon arrangod go 'far sold 30 makes "Mammy" about 16 years older than the oldest cat ho had over heeral df,
OLD HOMES
.....
and more — number unknown -are pending.
Disappointed
TWO tum workers' houses, nearly 2,000 years old, have been dis-
covered at Dunstablo, Bedfordshire, by Manstead Archaeo- |- #We have about 1,000 poople Jogical Society. They comat of earthern.fours and clay walls. A on the books at the mamon," Goldlo. *fout of The patient was reluctantly woman's bronze bangle and manicure wot were found in one of the said Mr engaged to be married and the houses. An iron tossing furk and broken pottery were also found them, about · 70 per cent,
Failures
he
ho
What is the bureau's success ratc?
"Not quite 100 per cent," said Me Goldie. "There have been three or four cases where it hisn't worked out.
"These were referred to the aro Church's own marriage guidance
council. But I don't know what happened after, that,”!
The Church may
conelder
extending the introduction ser- vice to the North of England and Scotland, where the problem of mixed marriages causes most concern It calculated that half the children and all the grandchildren of those marriages are being lost to the Roman Catholle Church.
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