Percy, 72,
Digs His Own
Shelter For
H-Bomb War
AT
London.
T the bottom of Percy Hill's garden there is a
tunnel 6 ft deep and nearly 12 ft long.
Mr Hill, 72, is digging it himself. The tunnel, he says, will lead to an H-bomb shelter to protect
his wife and family. For he believes there will be
a war before he is 86.
But he's having to do all the wurk himself -digging, carrying away buckets of earth and brick- laying. Why?
Trily retards it as just
a stupid waste of time," he said.
They don't want anything to do with H. They take the sune attitude the neighbours whe are all laughing their heads oft. But it will be a different tune when war breaks out."
By Our Correspondent
Army are being produced and within the next 14 years some incident will occur which will
H-Bomb Proof? send up the balloon,"
it
I
When will the shelter be After several months' work Mr Brished? "A my age I'm ind- Hill (f Brunswick Terrace, ing it rather tough going, so Wednesbury, Stuffs, in Great may be sometime. But the Britplu, has
atinos! Completed a the tunnel,
the
end
im- not expecting war mediately. i would be a great relief, though, if only some of the The shester af
12 will family were change their consist of three compartments minds and lend a hond." made of onerele skibs. The
have tubular TULE will
metal Supports.
What makes him think it will be 11-bomb proof? "It's baser! on designs being issued to people in America by thir Rover ment." he said.
simply beljeve In More and
"K
prepared.
Says Mr 16ll's wife, Allce: "1 can't see much point in it, but at least it keeps him amused."
His un. Eric, who helps him a_furniture shop: "I don't (2
trant anything to do with it. It's
being dad's more affair.
more
Just Fancy That!
Moscow.
FREE Soviet scientists said the other day that the second edition of the Russian Encyclopedia is the world's largest-bigger than any encyclopedias put out in the United States, Britain or France,
Three professors, Nesmeyanov, Berg and Strumblin,
wrote an extensive article on the Russian Encyclopedia for Pravdu, official party newspaper.
Barton-on-Humber, England.
THE rod, US$11,200 fire engine just bought by Til shiny, Jet Willie warmed up recently in a fire
started itself.
it
Its
The engine was on the way to fight a farm fire. exhaust set fire to wheat stubble on the ground and the water at the flames enveloped the engine. There was scene of the first fire, but none on the engine.
Fryeraing, England. THE puls in this farming community have been I allowed to stay open an extra hour at the request
of the local minister, who wants farmers to have their pint after they attend bis harvest service.
"They are true sons of the soil, and I know they will want to celebrate the gathering of, the harvest with the traditional type of ale," the Rev. William Mellor, 50, sakd. He said that he was a "two-pint man" himself,-UPI.
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1959.
"So much for the suggestion by a' certain newspapor that it is time the Carlton-Brownes of the Foreign Office were replaced by Joe Browns."
TROUBLE-SPOT ISLANDS SNUB TALKS OFFER
THE
HE Prime Minister of the British-protected chain of Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean has flatly rejected an invitation from Lord Home, Secretary of State for Common- wealth Relations, to come to
London this month to talk over the tangle that has soured British-Maldivian relations.
The invitation, together with an offer of British good offices to help settle the civil war in the chain of coral islands, was contained in a
message from Lord Home to Mr Ibrahim Nassir, the Maldivian Premier, disclosed în Whitehall last month.
The China Mail now fills in the background to the politics behind this coral island comedy in the Indian Ocean.
The Maldives Comedy
PITY
By FRANCIS CASSAVETTI
!
Y the Carlton Brownes of the C.R.O.! (Commonwealth Relations Office). For the exclusive film rights to what they've got on their plate, the Boulting brothers would have given millions.
London Express Bervica
TALKING
POINTS.
They do not love that do not show their love.
JOHN HEYWOOD. Jazz will endure just
16
long as people hear it through their feet Instead of their bralna.
'--SOUSA.
No mon has more courage than he who can stop after eating one pea-
in daily contact (in fact negl-nut.
sounds gible) with the rebels.
The full story sounds like a film script
Unless you're a stamp collector the Maldive BRITAIN RULES Islands may not mean much to you. But listen to
this:-
They are a chain of 2,000 the murky backwaters of coral islands, south-west Maldivian politics. of Ceylon, and they've been n British Protectorate This natural suspicious- news lies at the root of the since 1887.
neur-musical comedy dead-
Yet at no time between lock
-BUT BRITONS
ARE BARRED
Government.
Taxes up
a
in which Whitehall tackling these was prompt shaped Addu group, where then and now has Britain c finds itself involved ly to queation what had Gan is, decided to stage ever had a representative over its new RAF staging already been signed and revolt against the Male
the Singapore Bealed a year before. in Male, the capital, which hase-for with its string of islands and Australian routes-on hay 90,000-odd popula Gan island at the southern- Instead of the lease for most tip of the chain. the base being for 100 years at HK$32,000 a year The 1953 treaty allows rent; they suggested the for setting up of British length be cut to 15 years Why? Because the men bases in the Maldives. And and the rent upped
December 1956, the HK$1,600,000. of Male refused to have in
Male anyone there. The treaties rime Minister in
one The really signed an agreement ac
tion.
Suspicions
laid down:-
to
At this moment the three southern atolls of the cepting the base in Gen.
Maldive chain, with a fifth Unfortunately the Mal of the population and in the horse-shoe in the internal affairs of divian Government changed cluding the Maldive Islands."
in December 1957, when construction work on the
"No British interference
So no Briton in the airstrip was well started. capital because he might
not like the way things Some details of the were run and then, the agreement bad still to be- suspicious islanders fear, settled. The new Mule he might try to dabble in Government's
way of
ROUND-UP
SHE'S A FLAG LIEUTENANT
WOMAN wearing the gold alguilettes of a Flag-Lieutenant
A wall a curly in the Royal Navy, folder of the distinctlan
Is Second Offeer Bridget Conwell-Smith, 27, Flag-Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Waller Couchman, who In February becomes Vice-Chlef of the Navy Btaff. She la the only Wren oflear since the war to buld an appointment of this status. Her duties aro to act as hosiess for Sir Waller at official functions, arrange bis engagementa, da secreiarlal work and accompany him on visits to Navy ships and establishments. At present she is at Lae-011- Solent air iation, where Sir Walter is Flag Officer Air (Home), DUFFS BADGE IN MATCHSTICKS.
REGINALD HOLNESS, of Littlebourne, near Canterbury,
M BU HALDS HODNESS, of Lindebour Ho saves them for
his hobby matchstick modelling. In the past six months ho has built a replica of the badge of The Buffs (The Royal East Kent Regiment) and a 22-inch-long ship. Mr Holness plans to prosent the badge comprising 1,500 matches to his old Tegiment, the 4th Battalion The Buffs, and the ship to the Red Cross in appreciation of the way they made life bearable for prisoners of war. Mr Holness was taken prisoner In 1043.
U.S. AIR FORCE CARAVAN TOWN
Ho TOME by home a town is being transported by road to Laken- heath, Buffolk. United States Air Force station, a mouto is the local housing shortago, that the American authorities have decided to solve it with a "town".of caravans, osch of them a luxury model 35-rt. long. They have shower-baila, refrigerators, forced-air heating, gas and electricity, Tho' American airmen from three local airfields, Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Feltwell, will pay a rent of £28 a monik to Ulve in them..
Their cause: to shake off the
•
-CHANNING POLLOCK.
The next
British thing the
Punning to Д ta.ent knew they were partially in-
man affects to volved in the civil war whether which no they liked it or not.
despise but he that is with- out it.
The people of the rebel Huvadu atolldenler supplies
from Male-WGTO near starv
JONATHAN SWIFT.
tion. So Britain, telling Male Most friendship first, sent food there from Gan. feigning.
That confirmed Government
spicions of their complicity.
LIA
-SHAKESPEARE.
The Male authorities decided to | Every reform was once a
Ascert themselves: they sent private opinion.
their gendarmerie, with rifles,
revolvers, and + few tommy
guns, to subdue the rebels,
Оп Huvadu, the unarmed islanders were massacred:
the revolt is now stamped
and
out
everywhere except Addis ntall,
where the British base is,
And there it rests. The Bri- Hish are taking no sides, But they can't stand by and let the Addu atoll islanders be brutally trampled on. And they've told Male to.
-EMERSON.
QUOTE
by Coroner Mr J. Seymour Williams, recording an "ac- cident" verdict at Stroud
оп в girl of Gloucestershire, soven killed by her 14-year-old brother's shotgun:- taxation, especially on their fish between the British and
The normal place for dealing IT is the daty of every parent and rice, levied by the capital dylan Governments is Colom- teach him never to point any Mal-1 whose child watches TV to
These taxes had just been bo, where Male has its repre- firearm, even a toy. raised by the Government on sentative. Now that point the around that the Addu atoll contuet hus gone dead. islanders were growing fat on the wages paid by the R.A.F. the end of the second set. The That's how the plot stands at
So, declared Male, the third one, the unravelling, has British were to blame; they had still to be written, fomented the revolt. They were
-(London Expreu Service).
of
•
Mr. Davis:-
by Clerkenwell mögistrate,
AM not concerned, with what members of Parliament say. They often talk a lot of trips.
"FINGERS CROSSED, NORMAN
SOMEONE MAY YET DO'A SNATCH {"
London Saurait Borsica.