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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1959, !
China Mail staff man WILLIAM SMYLY recently spent two weeks
aboard a Hongkong trawler, fishing off Hainan Island. Today he tells of the fishermen he sailed with. On Tuesday he begins a series of five articles on his life as a 10 cents a month deckhand.
A
GENEROUS
FISHERMAN
FEARS HIS
WIFE'S WRATH
It was a still, hot day before Christmas and two long painted
junks lay dead on a painted sea.
Crude matting sails hung from their slats and the dull grey wood lay motionless on the dull grey
water.
They had fine lines these sailing trawlers from Hainan Island-long, thin, low, but the ships were in poor repair compared with the well oiled sleckness, of Hongkong wooden vessel.
W trawled stowly hy These grey craft, life on them seemed to have expired, Hot a soul wag on deck, and Bere up- peured to be httle accommoda- tion for anyone hedraw
For
Chinese Taft their desolate dieis, enunty of crew, precated 11 strangu rontrast with the warming family life aboard Hongkong ship at sea.
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On the sea around them, tiny dols in the distance, members of their crew were finding with hand Ines from the rampants carried by these iwo mother ships The
cuthusiastically to their country- men on the Hongkong vessel, but they eyel me with some suspicion though little surprise. I heard later that they thought me
Government agent that corresponded with their own "political officer," one of whelh came out with every pair of trawlers, to the fishing grounds.
*
All large Chinese Junks now are company-own
and their crews driven desperately hard. Compared with their lot our iner's
huge. pay was
They worked without any were
regular wage at all. Their catch was disposed of through the com- pay and they recieved a rice ration in exchange,
mother ships trawlers, not long-liners Bike most of our Hongkong deep sea craft which fish entirely with hooks hung 500 to n length of June So this hand line fishing was simply a way of passing the dull hours while their trawlers Jay becalmed.
Relations
As we came near to any of the Fampans the Hainan fishermen in them would p up their itnes and paddle, over towards us, throw a rope, and shout to members of our crew who were mastly one time Hanun irlanders,
As one of these sumpans drew close a mendier of our crew
i duck ou land.
nd tied up
aster) we continued trawlins.
and her men came aboard.
The only money they saw was an occasional token pay- ment which they could exchange for rationed supply
of cloth or clothing. AS
their little sampars dropped astern our men returned to their tasks shaking their heads sadly and muttering vague expressions of sympathy anger against the lot of their countrymen, There was some homesickness too,
Hard Lives
or
Yet I couldn't help wonder-
recognised a relation and called in it shermen's lives are not io himi The sampan buslied up. wadding through the water likely hard everywhere.
It has never been, even ia England, soft profusion, not even when North Sea skippers after the war were raking in such profits that they would radio to Grinsby for their incet the uffeur and Bentley to then on the docits! It wasn't a soft profession for our men either
They teld of athers, and several of our men rushed off to their bunks to make up parcels of what clothing and food they had brought with them, and pressed if on the visitors or sent il with mess- ages to their relaitons,
But all this time the two Hainan vessels were sinking into The breakmed distance us ww
trawled on steadily away froin them, and in the end their sam- pan crews had to hurry back. 10 their boats which paddled waddled away.
and
Oper lunch which followed this visit one of our men was Tapped by everyone else. His name was Fu Man-pans and he has given nearly all his clothes
the Mi genera of our parcels, send- ing them to a relative aboard the junks.
Gambling
My ship this trip was the Lock Hing No a Japanese type
trawler sailed down recently from Japon and working from Hongkong for Lock Fisheries Ltd.
Hing
This company had found me
Women Are Getting Out Of Hand
"MEN
DOUBT
THEIR
MANHOOD"
London.
Bearded Lothar Wit- teborg was dismayed
at the way American women dominate their
men.
So Witteborg, an American himself, went to Delhi to find the girl of his dreams -and recently married her in London.
His bride i Eugenia Abraham, 26, the daughter of an Indian Magistrate,
Witteborg, 32, is ort director of a New Work museum and has
Dr Schlesinger Crisis.
Lothar Witteborg and his Indian bride.
GHOSTS FOR SALE
AT £20 EACH
Singapore,
Malayan witch-doctors are doing a smart trade in ghosts -ghosts which they claim help to achieve personal ambitions or strike terror in enemies.
The price? About £20 for a poltergeist, a playful ghost
who likes throwing things around.
The ghost market is usually a house near a cemetery.
There, before on altor of three blood-red candles, bunches of flowers, offerings of saffron rice and
sweets, the wilch-doctor mutters an incantation."
Suddenly a white handker- chief he has spread on the buyer's lap becomes bright Follow and there is the ghost, In parts of Maisya the posses- sion of n ghost gives special been married once before-to an social status, Old women say "I've bought a poltergeis!" with American.
as much pride as an Englishman might say "I've bought a Rolls
"American women are get- ting out of hand," he says.
Indian women are much more understanding. more gentle." "Americani mes are in such a state that they'm beginning to doubt their own manhood.". "Faceless Man"
But another Ameriosa saya that men have only themselves to blame if women succeed. In ruling their lives.
BY
But the acquisition of a ghost has its drawbacks and dangers.
During the ritual the witch-
warns "Teko care cor
beyond may strong for your wil and death will be your fate."
this spirit ftom prove ico
OF
This is what witch-doctora say happened to a Moslem girl who bought
10 3 chost persuade a man to marry her. A month after their wedding she collapsed and died at the ceremony beld to send the ghost back to its grave.
THE WAY.
by Beachcomber
VEM BADIAT, the 34-year soon
the อด
"In the thirties America was bouse and I had been signed governed by a group of pungent him will be a vote for
personalities.
<<n
divorce
How to look the part
comes
JAPAN
NEWSLETTER By David Gordon
Japan
Is
No
Threat Now
· Tokyo.
Quite a number of
countries harbour dark suspicions that_Japan could and might em- bark on another military rampage- possibility which Radio Peking rather mono- tonously keeps harping on by calling Mr Kishi
"im- perialistic war- monger," and accusing him of rearming
An
Japan for conquest,
The plain fact is that Japan is militarily impotent and poses no anybody at the threat to
moment.
Such rearmament as is being undertaken for strictly de funsive purposes according to the rewritten
of rules-19 book being used as a means of lining more pockets.
the Furthermore,
youth of Japan is so disinterested in got- ting into uniform other than zool or mambo suits, that the entire defence structure is but
under manned tolen. establishment of dublous worth.
ar.
Japan has been accepting more fighters from the United States than it can manage to current fly-as witness the situation where it is being asked to return 45 F-B0F Sabrejets which have been railering durt since 1957 simply because there was a "lag” In the - training pro- gramme for plists.
Dr Arthur Schlesinger, history old Turkish violinist, played through. I come next, all being professor at Harvard University | Pepper's arrangement of de well." says this is the era of the face- | Falla's "Venta de la Reina" at n ' less man.
concert
Bournemouth 3: Dr Schlesinger, is in London Saturday night. for a series of lectures on
Miss Agnes Ravensblood, Roosevelt and the war.
who posed League The crisis that faces the Chairman of the
OF A MAN "Mr telephone-repairer and gave a berth aboard in the Cap-is the crisis of identity."
West," according to this doctor, Political Candidates, said:
away by Badhat has expressed his poll hims:f
having tro tain's cabin behind the deck-
A vote for tools should have taken lu ical faith in music.
heart the saner
advice of the P. C. Colonel E. J. Cloud, Wodehouse character who want living."
of the Worshipful cd to be mistaken for a vet. Hehere are turning out basically "When one of them made treasurer
his teeth the same of Verdigris Siftere was advised to tap
type Company a stalement it was clear-cut,
at the rate of 300 yearly. end Graters and an amateur with a pencil and try to smeli unmistakably stemming from bargee on the Stafford Canal, of ledoform. There used to be the man who made it. But
sold:
James "I do not see what all a story of Sir
Barrie the fifties we have the era of this Jins to do with the saying to an actor who seemed the faceless man: all the election."
unable to get into the skin
A sum of money is allocated his part:
"Try to look like a
for building ighters for an air man who has a cousin
in force which does not exist, Nottingham in n hosler's shop." -London Expresa Service.
on by the Hongkong harbour authorities as supernumerary deckhand at a wage of 10 cents per month,
The two main Hongkong com- panies fishing with heavy diesel trawlers are Lock Hing and Great South.
Of these, the Lock Hing con- pany have the more modern and But it also happened that this faster craft--two of them and was not the Brst time that Fu
they work as a pair, coming to the bad returned from sea without home and sailing out Okinawa, Japan, Korea,
any clothing. Last time he had fishing grounds together. joined a gambling school and
Great South runs three traw- Ist not only all the coming lers which run werk about, so month's pay but, in a desperate that two ships are fishing and attempt to win back something one running for port or back for the shing grounds all the to give to his angry wife, had
time. lost all his clothes as wel.
Both companies however Members of the Lock ing
trawi by the same method....a pald monthly, two-boat trawl. rather than after every trip. and this was a mid-month trip which would not be followed by pay. His wife would have only his word to go by that he had not lost month's pay in advance again, and all his clothing too. Fu seemed quite worried the prospect, and appealed one after another of the laughing crew to back up his story that
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 By Air Vietuam, Pakistan, France, 9 a.m. Thailand Malaya, Tratonesja, Gey.
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R.M.S. "CORFU"
SAILS:
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
BAGGAGE:
Friday, 13th February, at 5.00 p.m. for the UNITED KINGDOM, via Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Said.
Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown No. 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, by Noon on Thursday, 12th February.
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages carrfed by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Company's Godown for loading on board by ship's slings only.
EMBARKATION; Passengers should embark batween 2.80 and 4.00 p.m. on 13th February. 1959.
Subject to alteration with or without notico
crew
were
With the two boat system our local trawler tows its net from the stern and the net ie towed by two ships sailing side by side about half a mile азяство whole
On the
whole it does not
official statements could have been written by the same person."
The fortyish professor, author of a mammoth biography of F.DR.,.
adds:
men find themselves in the position of being dominated by aggressive females it's their own fault, They wouldn't be if there were any real men around."
BELE THOUGIEF
FOR TOPN)
| Mrs Wretch hits out
the
The advantages of monopoly are particularly evident in Case of London Transport. Monopoly is the only system by
which when a local service is in- adequate or is completely with- drawn private service can be prevented from taking its place. In this way unfair competition becomes Impossible.
(Mrs Wretch at Finchley.)
| Planning ahead
SKED If the had any plane Afor her future, an
enter- prising lady sald, "I am re- thy marrying my third husband, Mr Gulge. After that, if I can get another divorce in time. I ex-
It is good neither to ent em to be as adaptable or as flesh, nor to drink wine, nor
whereby by eclent, but catches were heavy anything
and these modern ships come brother 10
stumbleth. - ack to Hongkong with so many Romans 14:21. Ash that the tale has gone
We Fround among the wooden fish-
lengths to help and en-Webbieton had only just married must go to extreme poet to be the ith Mrs Wobble- ton." When told that Mr
go South and fish
courage the weak.
not really more
he hut in fact given his clothes craft that heavy trawlers do away and not bten gambling, and each gne promised lurid description then the last at all-they sall North to Japan of all that he had won und lost and load up!
In his wreckless Bumbling nboard.
I don't know why another per- son's troubira should seem 30 funny, but Fu was genuinely worried for he had faithfully promised that he wouldn't gamble, and as he pleaded with one after another to back up his story the ship around him rang with shouts of laughter.
In the end I promised to tell the
the true story in newspaper so he could show his wife. When we came back on the return {, the men of the Hann vessels were ready for us and they came out in force in three packed sampans, crowded pboard, and were given sweets and apples.
·
Stowed Away
But few of them ate the pre- elous delicacies at once.
Press-Radio Bible Service,
Inc Cincinnati, Ohio.
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his third wife, the wald, yes, I know. But a triad of mine is to be his fourth wife as
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CHINA MAIL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
FILMS KINGS & PRINCESS: Geisha Boy." Jerry
Matle MoDonald, STAR & METROPOLE! Horse's Mouth," Ales Besa Kay Walib, Houston
**The Lewin,
"The Guin- Rene
ROXY & BROADWAY: "Thest Thostsand Hills," Don Mur- Kay, Richard Egna Loo
Remick. LFE
Money." Belinda Harrison,
The puper wrapped sweets were mostly wrapped again in HOOVER cloth or paper and stowed away somewhere in the inside pocket of shirt....perhaps to be produced again weeks later for
ASTOR: "The
In
Loc.
Carmichael. Kathleen
FARAMOUNT: **Tom Thumb” Eum błyn, Alan Young. Terry- Thomas, Prior Bellark MAJESTIC: “Smiley Gela
Calvert, Bybil Oun," Keith As they drow alongside or Thorndiks, Chizu Rafferty, came aboard they would shout | ORIENTALI “AL War With
some favourite child.
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The Purple
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Gregory Pook, Than. STATE: "Cowboy." Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kaabfi.
TELEVISION
Meanwhile, aircraft factories
of
sirernit
This is not at all astonishing.
It
Is very good business. works something like this;
It
of
From the original sum, politl- clans and department or burenu chiefs extract sumelent to buy country villas, Cadillnes and other outward marks superiority, plus enough to maintain their families, con- cubines, toadies and henchmen in approved style.
There is more than enough left to build the plants as the original sumT usually doublo the amount actually needeul,
at
This ensures full employment the fuctorles unul ample dividends for the shareholders, The Inished aircraft show that Здрал 15 playing its part in rearming to defend itself, thum ensuring continuity of American aki for this purpose.
It appears
most unlikely that China will deal with the Kishi government. One Japanese observer has gone so far as to say China will not deal with Japon at all until the Japanese prople "unite in a movement for peaceful coexis tence with China," which is a fairly self-explanatory statement, The case of the Iscquerware Industry here-relying as I seemingly does for 00 per cent of its raw material
Com- munist sources-mokes Ameri- can insistence in Hongkong on
of "certificates
for origin" Januratrable items, look rather
on
Apparently 11 is quite in order for an American tourist in Japan to purchase Japanese lacquer- ware and take it home without becoming suspoet, wherous ho could not get n clearance for sithlor wares from Hongkong it - these were proven to have süch an overwhelming Communist- derived content.
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