THE CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1960.
EUROPE
Britain's radio 'hams
H
UNDREDS of radio "hams" in Britain will be invited shortly to help track an Ameri- can satellite. It weighs 100 lb and it will be launched in early sum-
mer.
the
destinned to give
facts about the world new lonosphere that layer of glen trically-charged particles above the earth which plays a vital
will track
U.S. satellite
Bank or the Radio Rosearch
But he would most like to see A stabilised station, Slough, are NOT Britain building
piniform to put a "ying tele- likely to be caught napping scope" into space--to map again by Russian sputniks sky ABOVE our atmosphère. or Luniks.
a part in radio communications. The Husians have Just joined Final details of how to collate SPACEWARN, an internationaal dats, from thousanrkt of amnieur Lady set up to tip-off" a "ears" all over the world, ore nations in advance under now being worked out by, the pledge of secrecy when U.S. National Acromuties and jauneklaut { imminent. Full Space Addrustration.
details of Iroquoneles and 'erxles will be stopplled so that nations van have iliele receivers ready.
LINY
Sets adapted
The Americans are expected to SPACE-SHOTS
the new.
ternationally-
Dint
BR
agreed frequency of 138 megE TORITAIN can still get to cycles. This would mean
Reis owned by British the Moon-if she does muny anteurs would have to be three things: adapted.
The Ratio Society
perfect tells mast: (1).1'resses on with "Alterations could be done quite ing her Back Knight and Blue easily providing we are given Streak rockels;
would think it worthwhile."
enough warning There are (2) Puls maximum effort AT plenty of VIP enthusiasts Who ONCE into design studles to Some of the messages fan Convert both rickets into ralel- space may be
mrs. for have promized codes.
SPUTNIKS
Intelliglbie 1
U.S. sentists
te munchers;
to reveal their satellite.
Flooded field
the
"That would be an ideal con- tribution for Britain to make," he told me, "The Russians and Amerlenna may be so keen on he bunnan aspect of space te- search that they by-pass selenți- lie, Instumented experiments. And the #eldi of normal satellites is going to be pretty flooded-dui. by the time we are ready to launch ours.
"We MUST plek jobs
others are not doing
which
**Lord Hailshamn deserves commendation for financing the only British space plan possible until today. But from now on he needs to give encouragement to these other developments our space research,"
?? IS IT TRUE??
In
(3) Builds and fres her own
Is it true that dogs are the uly carriers of rabies?
After that, The difference in
No. Foxes, skunke and bats cost and effort between Bring an all give mans the disease. Moon probe and a satellite is
In fact, bites from bats are
FFICIAL British fractional, That is the bellef using 5 cases of human rables
fit-trackin
stations such
of Professor Bernard Lovell, director of Jodrell Bank's radio-
35 Jodrell telescope,
a year in the U.S.A.
~~(London Express Service).
'Tighten-up security
out
orders in America
THE
Washington.
Langelle case was the Russian attempt to enlist him as a Soviet opent.
revcated
Fit spokesmen that the Moscow Incident coincided with
inarked resumption of suspect aclivi- tles. by Soviet diplomats In the U.S. Six Communist dip- lomot in the New York City area have been under rozari - the-elvek surveliance In recent weeks.
Cummings
I
AFRICA
POLAND
"Ah, If only we had black skins...”
London Express Service
Last summer young, dapper Bill Yim, a reporter for the 'American news agency, United Press International, was allowed by the Chinese authorities to cross the border af Lowu and travel to Canton where he had been assigned to interview an American, William Downey, who had been visiting his imprisoned brother. That was the last his family, employers and friends in Hongkong saw of him. For six months there was no news. Then, last week the authorities in Canton announced Bill's trial and one-year jail sentence for "espionage." Today his mother is interviewed by China Mail reporter STEVE DUNLEAVY,
and says
JUST WANT MY SON BACK!
The U.S. spy who was jailed West Germany recently was Cerhard 38-year-old
Wegner. The incense from smouldering joss sticks grew
HE FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency have sent out orders for a drastic tightening of United States security networks throughout the world. Behind the terse orders are the now He had been one of the most famous "Langeile case" and the discovery of trusted American
Europe. foreign spies in the employ of the United States in Europe.
Communist diplomats assign-
cd to Amerlen are also Usted
among tho!
y
who requirely os
Germany.
tight new scrutiny."
The two events which pre ceded the new onders
agents In
Yet a cotri in Bonn found that he had been feeding top- secret German and American military secrets to Hussla "double agent" in since 1933 when he first
became 2 member Western spy system.
The kidnapping and expulsion were of Langelle was responslule for "scrutiny" of Soviet the "phoney" espionage charms the new and later deportation of Ameri- diplomats in the Ů.5 by FBI
can diplomat Russell Langelle from his post in Muscow, and the sentencing
of top U.S.
tenis.
To elals in Washington, the
most worrying uspect of the
Central Intelligence
believe spokesmen
of the
Agency Wegner
was one of the "double agents" referred to by Mr Khrushchev
during his American visit.
London Express Service).
narrow Wanchai stronger as I climbed the stairs. I groped through the darkness until I found the door on the first floor, then I knocked loud.
Seconds later the darkness was split by a beam of light. The door jerked open and a frail, frightened woman peered anxiously at her visitors.
Yim Mrs
Cheng
"I think of nothing else. My Iweng. mother of Communist held sur's welfare is always in my United Press newsman Bill Yim, mind," she said with a trace of was quick to asit us if we had emotion.
of her come with news
"U only I knew what war Before I could explain cur presence she started to ask us happening to him I would feel
коп.
in her native Cantonese, if her better. zon was still alive.
Had he taken ill? Hed the
Communists beaten him?
he going to be released?
Stops in fear
War
I raw before me a quickly aging.
Woman
tortured
woman....A stops in
whose heart
fear everytime a knock on the duor sends her scuttling to open
it. A woman' who lives from
one telephone call to another.
"I think of the terrible food the way the he is eating and Communists may treat him.
how they "I dread to think made Billy admit that spring.
he was
is
***The charge, naturally, absurd. Billy only thought of his job B
journalist and nothing else.
Proud
"He was very proud to think reached
A woman who could gladly go that he had been chosen to go
Mrs Yim
International
propor.
on about her. All she knows. Is Jightened, but quickly relaxed that she is another - and as hor`sétond" ada walltöd" in. wants her son back.
He politely introduced himself rnd disappeared outside to a It is now over seven months mechanical shop which he had since she collapsed when she erected himself. heard of her son's arrest in
Contor. Seven months of Mrs Yim toid
of her onguish. not even knowing family, before returning again' whether her son was alive. to the subject of Billy. It was cbvious that her whole life was Here was a woman who has her family, and Billy's imprison- been living in the shadow of ment has deprived her of a big her son's fate for seven agonis- part of her life.
ing months.
"I'm still frightened that something may happen to him ....I don't know how I'm go- log to live through his iTt- prisonment.
Incense
A breeze through the window wafted "All the time I hear so many being burnt continually to keep the Incense that was different stories shout people evil spirits from harming Bill imprisoned in China, I don't know what to bellove — and I nearly worry myself to death."
Good boy
In a corner of the sparsely- furnished room a photograph of Bill stood on a fedge. Several newspapers carrying the story and photograph of Bill's jail sen- lence and trial, iltered the Mrs Yim sold she still can't table. Sitting distraught and get used to the fact that he is rod-faced on a cane chair, Mrs not in the house.
Yim stared Into space thinking of her son,
"He is such a very good boy, He used to work very hard, and Everywhere I looked I was he would always bring home reminded of grief, anguish and little presents from time.
time
to the ever-present yearning of a
simple Cantonese mother who "I often think of him the
knowi way he was when he was little
nothing of politics, and I cry when I think that I knows nothing of Communism --but knows only that whe¦ du «a can't see him.”
and
tions.
The front door opened. In- mother. It was obvious that she didn't tu prison herself if her young on a special assignment into fully understand what was going stinctively Mra Yim's face her OTL, son could be released from the Red China." sho ndded. Communist Jail in which he
was imprisoned on January 31. What were her feelings about
She nervously asked myself the Communists?-Was she bit ard United Press International los? Was she interested in reporter Gerry Xavier, an old politics? trlend of Yim's, to sit down.
"I have no feelings against She was willing to be inter- the Communists, I know nothing
she paused.. viewed. She would tell us any of politles," thing we wanted to know mu "polities are for men to argue anything that might help bring about. My job is being a wife her beloved son home again. and a mother-and I just want Through my Chinese-speaking my son back safe and sound.” reporter friend. Mrs Yim told
how ever since her son was Mrs Yim continued to talk arrested on July 28, 1959, she in Cantonese about her son and had lved in a nightmare,
how well behaved he was.
A sirlet Buddhist she lends
her family in prayer every day
for Bli's safe return.
Here was a woman now in- volved in a controversy that, as
she
Wanita
CHINA
THE COLD WAR.
ÜMBER, HOW MANAGEMENT
London Express fervics.
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Just Fancy That !
MICHAEL, PATRICK BOURKE, of Shepton Mallet, Somer- set, lined £2 at Bristol, Somerset, for parking too. neat a bedestrian crossing and falling to produce an insurance certificate, wrote to the mingistrates;++=
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1
I had stopped to pop in for a flower for my wife
To wear at the medical ball,
When a tall Welsh policeman came into my life
Who sentiment moved not at all.
He told me I'd parked soven minutes by then
In a dangerome spot in the town,
And another ten minutes had wandered by then When we had got the particulars down, Ho I hantlly got in and drove it away
And I am and to have onused such a mers. And I'm sadder to think, Fini sorry to BAY, Of the cost of thai dower's SHOVEN,
"Honry, stop jumping, you'll have the ---- thing over."
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