THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1959.

What else Could ATLANTIC JOINED PACIFIC JUST 45 YEARS AGO

London.

THE sun still shines,

he do? Men died like flies

"Respectable" people would

making this one of Britain's longest, hottest have nothing to do with it. It summers. The printing bred discontent and would strike has been settled. eventually undermine the n-

tional economy. Crises, domestic or I can even remember that foreign, are happily some firms specialising in Instal missing.

It's getting difficult to find something to worry about, Maybe that's why the news- Japiers made such a splash of it when a Coldstream Guards- man was disciplined by his commanding offleer after an "incident with in American woman tourist at the gates of Buckingham Palace.

Who the woman is, rin-one But she m• reems to know. plained to n polleeman at the rates of Buckingham Palace that one of the sentries on guard duly had -"klcked" her. The policeman reported this to and the the guard commander,

sentry was punished with ten dnys C.B. (confined to bar- racks).

the ment-plan sales advertised fact that they would deliver your purchases to your home In a plain van.

Com-

flow different today, mentators are now halling as a sign of prosperity the fact that the nation's "nover-nover" debt had just jumped another £37 million to a new all-time high of £703 million.

for

The public is pledging itsel tu this extent in exchange television

Washing nets, machines, refrigerators and now,!

above all, motor ears.

Law And AI

GROUP of Britain'al top legal brains (in

to fulf

dead man's dream

yet for 400 years man's aim to split a HE ambition seemed a wild one --

continent in two persisted. Eventually it became a reality.

The dream became a reality when the mighty continent of America was separated by the narrow strip of water known as the Panama Canal.

It opened to cargo traffic

Over the year

the schema the full working party which

discarded was to follow them to Panoma.

for the first time on August was revived and

Not until 1870 fact, the Council of the Law 15, 1014, just 15 years ago, several times.

PETER BURGOYNE'S...

News From Britain

The sentry said that, al though the woman had been shiggering at him, he had mere- ly bumped into her accidental

ly.

While not generally in favour of clouting the gentle sex, I confess that my sympathies are with the Guardianatı

what think I shudder would happen to the tourist who balled the guards outside the palace the White House or

of the President of France.

But is coinmonplace for visitors to London to make

of teasing the scarlet KUZTIC coated guards at the gates Buckingham Palace.

of

The Guards are at a complete disadvantage. As the elite corps of the British Army and the military guardians of the Queen, they must remain impassive and dignified in the face of infuriat- ing taunting. The slightest de- viation while on duty brings the full weight of ramrod discipline ernching on them.

Yet look at the sort of he- 10 haviour the sentries have

batting mari tolerute without

eye-

Society) this week published headline-making proposals about laws to govern arti- ficial Insemination.

Divorce, they said, should be who live penalty for any wite allows heraclf to be artifelally inseminated without the consent of her husband. And the some penalty should apply to a man who becomes a donor without his wift's consent.

n

It is a masterpiece of en- did a man come forward who gineering-but a permanent was really prepared to tacks monument to folly and the outsize job. disaster.

For more than 80 years men had sweated and toiled the their way through Panama isthmus, to create that slender channel, slight- ly over 50 miles in length, 6 ft, deep, and 300 ft, wide,

was Ferdinand His name de Lessepe... a name which soclaimed throughout the world. He was the man who had boosted French en. gineering by hia Impressive feat in constructing the Bues cartal,

Its opening that day státia IGNORED CRITICS

been A

it

hava

triumplant DOCRSION

celebration superb

Instead, slipped past almost unnoticed by the general publie,

The world WEA concerned

graver malters-only few days earlier

The lawyers suggest, too,

certificates of consent system

and wives with signed by husbands who agree to artificial insemina- tian, This is clearly aimed at legislating for possible changes of mind by either party the event.

the

First World

alter War had

Likeliest of all the Coun-

Cause cil's proposals to

broken out in Europe.

A But in any

storm is the one which SES that artificial insemination of kumarried woman nuer

case the fruils

of victory left

25 should not be a criminal bitter taste

ounce.

Old MOST

Square

...

Susz had made his reputation, Because of it he was a wealthy man, and the proud holder or French onc of the highest awards, the Grand Cross of the # Legion of Honour,

By Graham

with

In the mouths of those most

concerned closely cor.struction.

The whole world was with de Lesseps. In France and America the enthusiasm reached fever pltch. De Lesseps found him selt feled even before work had started. Actress Sarah Bern- hardt pald a spechil visit to the Isthmus to entertain the Brot arrivals.

But this happy state of offairs was not to last long.

surveyors The engineers and went over every inch of the ground, to declic the canal's best course.

Thousands of workers were drafied in. Eventually there wire between 30 and 40 thou- and navvies most of them Negroes or Chinese ready to

begin work.

And as the project got under way it took little time for these

Wilson

Now he was thirsting for a new mammoth

conquer. Panama, he was convinced, was

Lo

men to learn of

the one factor

whielt de Les-

his golden

plans, bad

Dot

takon into count

00

He hal, in his enthusiasm. considered Panama to be "just another Suez." Neither he tur nel given any anyone else

the nature of the Thought to lund through which the moved trom was to pass. Ardently he country to country though

its

the answLT.

Was

And with that knowledge they

were

demanded to know where their money had gone.

with determined efforts to rid... the country of the matarla and yellow fever danger.

seps, in making began to live like doomed men."

Within a few months all the Every day they spent as if it

But it still folled. Once more their Inst drinking, major directors of the mighty gambling and indulging in every project already on the brink of the cash ran out and in 1893 the themselves faced work was suspended. It started conceivable vice. The demor- ruin-found alisation was thorough and com- with civil and criminal pro- agnin in 1902, and was halted. three years later with another secutions.

1809, de yellow fever outbreak which, 8. On February to a standstil plete. Work on the canal came

son and three wiped out hundreds of workmen. Lesseps, hils friouis were sentenced to five

But every attempt had brought years

Aned 3,000 the Panama Canal just a little gnol and francs.

nearer to completion. It moved stendily and inexorably on us the from bad to

Allerwards the Things went

In France, *400,000

were quashed no one really workmen cut and hacked and worse. shareholders, unaware of the suspected de Lesseps was roaily dynamited a way through the catastrophe whilch, had struck guilty of any criminal offence, great jungle. 'their project, suddenly found. Over-enthusiasm. had been hig It was slow, hard, tedious and

more cash being demanded from destroyer.

often grim work, but dnally

canal

It was steamy, swampy jun-

of Panama The story FOST-FAVOURED dero-|

Inot a happy one. It broke the gatory epithet of the heart of the man whose brain Tourists try to lint arms teenager is "square." Any-child it had been, and it caused mainly concentrating on France gle land, infested by insects deaths of countless and America-arousing, people's and mosquitoes; a vile hotbed with them and pose for one se stigmatised is

af the

thousands of skilled engineers enthusiasm for his project.

of slime, 4th and disease, and workmen. dreary fuddy-duddy, appreciative of whatever is the latest teenage craze.

photographs.

un-

the

Girls try to tease them into laughing or blushing. The really obnoxious types

tickle them. try

If any teenagers read the cor- Altemps have been made

respondence columns of to end their bootinces. Cigarette packets have been sober-sided "Times," they must have been slaggered to learn re- Jammed 011

cently that "square" was used in bayonets Recently, French Bog Scouts the same sense by Guy de Mau lossed slippery ice-cream passant, famous French writer

of the last century. enrton under the feet of a patrolling sentry.

their

On a hot day, with a Ught- collared tuule and heavy bear- skin helmet to make things worse, that sort of baiting takes

a lot of tolerating,

What can a poor Guardsman

do?

Well, he can eonie out of his sentry box a shade more briskly than is demauted by the

And military manual,

if 45 large-size Anay boots accidentally collide with an importunate sigktare...

Poison Poachers

through

The idea of a canol the isthmus of Panama, to ink the Adantle and Pacific Oceans, had its roots in the middle ages, In 1530, wher the New World had only recently been discover- ed, such a possibility was sug- Spaniard named Cores. gested by a

£20,000 awaits

a

£10 earl

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

THE new Earl of Breadalbane, 40-year-old tenth earl cut out of his father's £130,000 will, may ALMON fishing is one of be richer by £20,000-if he likes to claim it.

Scotland's major tourist Which is quite a lot of money for the 6ft 2in attractions, and tourism is Scottish new earl, now living in £4-a-week digs in one of Scotland's major London's East End on his £10 a week pay as a money-spinners.

Now the Scots worried messenger.

fure

about signs that salmon peach-

The now

crew-cut earl calls

Under Scols law children left

the third of

movable

ing is developing from a sporadic himself Jack Campbell. As Lord cut of a father's will can claim

info an organised lenorchy, before he succeeded one business zacket which might seriously

to the title two months ago, he estate. damage fishing prospects ΣΟΣ Worked as a labourer, a kitchen

has porter and at other

After duty, £54,723 on the whole estate, the late earl's movable estate is worth more than

AA O £60,000,

only child, the new car can claim

years ahead.

odd jobs. The racketeering aspect opened up since poachers dis-e once played the bagpipes in

a London pantomime, covered how to use a polson called cymag. The technique is simple. Holes are punched in his belongings to rule money a third of that for himself.

can of cyming which is then tossed into a salmon stream. A fow hours later the poachery 10 turn to remove the dead salmon floating on the surface.

cach The amount of poison fish consumes is enough to kill

it but not enough to affect the humans who will later cat the salmon.

рас

A poncher with 4 Cari of cymug can earn himself £50 with one night's work, Highly- mobile

well-organized poaching gangs can boost their carnings to a pitch which makes the risk involved marely laugh- able.

The 10% of salmon Ja bad enough. But the worst result of cymag-poaching is that it

He confesses he has pawned and he has been sued for main- tenance by his wife nov

The movable estate includes counters—from. whom he is all the late earl's investments separated.

mostly in Scotland, but some shares in England and Canada, art Is father left £100,514 175. his furniture, antiques,

estate" and 6d. in "movable

treasures and his Rolls-Royce £20,057 in properly, it is rated tnx.

in the will lodged at the Com-

The new carl left his father's missary Offer at Hoddington, home in 1943 after a quAITCL East Lothian

And since then father and son never spoke.

TARGET

T EO

can

L

$

ruin a stretch of salmon stream for as much as, four years.

K

Never-Never

【OW times do change. It' Hsons such a short time ago that the "never- never" (instalment-plan pur- chasing)

regarded aakancs.

WDS

I can remember the sort of things which used to be said about it. It was immoral because it templed poople to live beyond their monda

How many

wards of Tour Tetier Dr MUIT, Coh you make trom the lettura.15 the Te uns the left

car word. the closu to each of the small squares may be used obre Bulz. Bach word 'thuit con- tain Liige letter in the cefree stuen, and there must be as frest one nine-letter word in the UK. foreign words a

No plurals; po ES MY

no proper TARGET 10' words. wurde. tory: goo.

worde excatiant, Solauan on Monday.

YESTERDAY'S ・・・ #OLUTION: Neon neutron none nonet_meta nown nurture oner outrun OUT BUNNER V TOOL TERRIT runo POSSESS THRi tenda senor terms cene dern time, comer turn turNDE anto unters-uktene unÍVNA.

KeyChandon Ezornen. Berrier),

He never visited his parents at their 40-roomed mansion at Dirleton, on the shores of the Forth.!

The new carì did not, go to his father's funeral or memorial service.

But he did consult solicitore

in Edinburgh and he called un his father's solicitors,

One of the mysteries revealed

in the will is that although it was/1043 that this father", and con became estranged, they will' 100% whlich left out the only andt, heir was mede 60 years befire that--in 1838 when the son was a Sandhurst codef, *** The late cari jeft all his money and properly to his wife. His wife, the Dowager- Couns toes, livos, at the frilly home. with her yon by a previous. mangéing, Már Hugo - Nicholson:

Ils prestige and influence. were immense and he found Ananelul support totalling about much without £20 million difficulty.

There were the usual critics who sold de Lesseps idea was and doomed to failure, Crazy But he had met the same oppo sition over Suez and proved it wrong. De Lesseps ignored the critics.

The workmen soon found than they were doing swore merely building J canal. They were fighting, a terrible, one-sided tatile with Death.

BAD TO WORSE

them.

But

tho initial enthusiasm had worn off; they were reluc tant to take the risk. Then on First malaria and then yellow December 14, 1833-while mil- pounds worth of fever struck and spread with lions of devastating suddennes Men machinery rusied, rotted and died like "fles, in their thou- fell apart on the isthmus of Panara-payment was stopped sands.

to the shareholders,

There 1003 no cure, no one to help them--and no escape, In January, 1881, the first it took little time for team of engineers and workmen wretched men to discover they left France to pave the way for were doomed.

FOUR D. JONES

THE SAILS ARG OPENED, AND UP KHP TWO ARMED MEN.

STAND BACK, "BLIMEY, WA, LOOK,

THE GAMES UP FOR

| YOU BLACKMAILING

LOUTS, GET

(YOUR FIAND,

FERDINAND

HER

FOR BOBS AN ALL

| WE EET, ARE TWO -

BRICK BRADFORD

RUPPY.

COPPERS

BRICK AND PAM SCRAMBLE CUT OF THE

"OHAS.....

LOTA HAVE A LOOK AROUND, BUT CONT STRAY TOO FAR FROM THE.SHIP/ HOW

DO YOU FEELI

LIGHT AS A: FBATHRA...LOOK

BRICK!

thene

which

sentences

Now a sick and alling man, Panama was conquered, and the kis death in 1804 came as a waters of the Atlantic and Pacifio merged and flowed together. Be- merciful release.

fore that happy day in 1914 the toll had been tremendous.

THE KEYNOTE

But the use which has since But still the urge to conquer been made of the canal has Panama persisted. The Cam- proved for all time that the. pany changed hands, again co- massive ideal of de Lesseps was thusiasm was worked up and well-merited. welcome dollars were ploughed into the luckless venture.

This setback was followed by

The Panama Canal may have 'a tide of ugly rumour

broken de Lesseps' heart-but the French This swept through

timo caution was the world mariners have cauze to be capital An indignant publla keynote. The campaign began grateful for his vision.

I'VE SEEN THING

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