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A reporter follows the Red gun-runners on a trail that leads to Africa
ARMS PLOT THREATENS NEW 'WAR
IN PERIL-LAND THAT COULD BE NEW CONGO
un the menace, grows from Communist trained thugs a
BRITONS FLEE TERROR
PAWNS IN THE CONSPIRACY – BRITISH PLANES
GUN SMUGGLING PROBE
THE CHINA MAIL,
FUNG
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1961.
HONGKONG
MOVIELAND
BY DAVID LAN
BO-BO-HONGKONG'S
THE littlest star with the highest pay in the THE
local film world is, no doubt, seven-year-old Fung Bo-bo.
been can. SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Her meteoric rise to stardom has been con- sidered an unprecedented miracle in Hongkong's movie history.
In While over a year, the child prodigy has zoomed her way from a $30-a-day extra to a box-office Attraction com- manding something like $10,000 a ploture,
What has Bo-bo got that earns her mare in a year than **L average adult can make in a deender
Salda director: The audiences like her because she is such a cute little thing, vivacious and delightful. And she is an expert on mimlery."
Doll
The way she looks big, that shine with Intelligence, and smail, eloquent mouth that chirps like a canary's doll. to be "she is a living cherished by every family,"
From MICHAEL BROWN: Las Palmas, Canary Islands. THE other day I learned the destination of the crates of arms which Bri-ralling eyes
tish charter aircraft, hired by Communist plotters, have unwittingly been carrying to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. The arms are now officially presumed to have been smuggled another 3,000 miles Cameroons--the terrorist-threatened African territory from which the British are due to pull out on October 1.
The arms, all made in China, include hundreds of mortars, and thou- sands of grenades, mor- tar bombs, and rifles.
They increas the risk that after independence there will b
Congo-xiyle war in the jungles of the Cuniertions,
Even
running
before this arms- British was revealed, women and children were get ting .
And Cameroons Premier John Foncha appealed to Brits in re- cently to let British troops stay alter October 1 because he had "denite information that the terrorists plan to take over our country."
Concern
Atlantic Oc
ZURICH
to the
LAS PALMAS
TRIPOLI
AFRICA
0 miles 800
CONAKRY
· GHANA
NIGERIA
CAMEROONS
actors and actresse often re- Burt to rubbing ginger on their
yellds to bring on the tears.
This in altogether too old- fashioned and sumbersama for Bo-bo. who pan switch her tears on and off automatica)- ly,
"How do you do 11?" Bsk curlous on-lookers,
Bo-bo
the who approaches problemi logically says: "Easy, when you think of something
only said, you weep!"
The director got wise to her. In a scene where Bo-to had to look leorful, he merely fold her, "Here, Bo-bo, you must look very sad. It is very, very sad, but you mustn't cry, you k.wow!
Memory
In a matter of recends, faster Bounding with energy. Bo-bo wars started oozing from Bo- than you can think, glistening Tomps around the set during bo's bir eyes. Intervals, dancing the off-beat che cho, playing with little com- panions or distributing
what over Ut-blis shu rocelves, among her friends.
Acling comes naturally to her. Be 10 fear, sorrow, tension,
or facetiountiess, Joy she can put it across with little or no direction.
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For example. in scene where a father and a daughter were chased up a cul-de-sac on a cliff by a bunch of gangsters, all that a director needed to say was, "Now, Bo-be you pre in a dangerous situation. You yet the can't go any further bad men are about to catch up with you."
Grief
Her memory seldom falis hor provided it is real shooting.
" rehearsal, she may not recita her lines well, but once the camera starts rolling, she never faltere.
оп
For all her sits, she is the busiest personally
the screen doing 50 films a year, mostly Cantoneso 'quickles,'
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She has been in auch de- mmand that up to two months ago, Bo-bo was working on up to three films at once.
Bo-ha
as she appears in Flower-
Drum Dance,
employed private tutors to coach her in Chinese and English.
Chauffeur
the
In top hat and tails, Ba-bo in the
Stick Danco.
The next moment she might Fast at leurning.". Bo-bo has Jet By with a stlif right after the already picked up the flower- fashion of Chinese boxing the drim dance, stick dance, 25- has learned from her coach. quire dance, lap dance, Mickey- Bo-bo made her Alm debut Mouse dance, mute-paralytle in "Fright on a Rainy Night" in dance....from her teacher. January, 1960. Some of her
Her mother, Cheung Shik- Red ying, is a noted Cantanese Alm actress "Like parents, Jike daughter," as you say.
hits are "The Little
Butterfly," "The Little Emperor in Black," "Little Golden Dra- star. gon," and "The Little Lady."
bet
#
B
To better took after health of the Little dag has spent part of earnings, in buying "her! brand-new cream-coloured Peugeot 403, and hiring olufear to drive her to and from the studios.
But bat brought on through trouble. In June, overwork and failgue she had a breakdown. This worried her father, Fung
And he init After the health programme, Fun, very much.
she put on weight, and tips the on, Bo-be nodded her little.head, down a rule, "from now When the
no night shooting scale now at 47 lbs. started there will camera
Now it's a different Bo-ba Now there is genubic concern
whirring, she put on an excel for Bo-bo and she will work on a
queried altogether. Whenever in offelal circles that there
a Russian fishing fleet operating lent show of fright and tension resteleted number of films only."
farmer illness, she This stands to good reason for about her But he had no idra until the down the coast, and Russian as if really facing Immediate #hould be some rethinking about
other week thal
Las jets, including bombers, had dinger.
Bo-bo not only needs time for stretches out her little rotund the withdrawal of our troops,
Palmas,
Miami-style been in any out of Conakry in with its
Usually it is not easy
leg and buffs, "Who sald I've rest but time for education.
but been ill. Look how strong and rolden beaches, Guines.
She has the Communists hotels
quitted schools tears at will. anyone to shed the weapons through could be involved.
In scenes of sorrow or grief, not schooling-for daddy has am!"
The way
makes a fascinating story which is still being pieced to- rother by poller in Erlisin and elsewhere.
The Reds appeur to have secret arms stores somewhere In the Middle East.
For months they have been chartering aircraft, mainly with
there have been reports of gun- running into the Cumeroons.
But there had been reports of
.
-(London Express Service).
for
SPOTLIGHTING ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL BUSINESSMEN
SUN
UNLIGHT streamed
British air arms, but also with through the vene-
14. Las Palmas,
American firms, to fly the armstian blinds and spot- booked lighted a glass of Rus-
The planes
WITU
through commercial agents net-sian tea. Behind the ing in good faith, And the
weapons were all in wooden
desk, in shirt-sleeves, sat
crates marked "Almond Nuts." Rudi Sternberg, at 44 a
Some aircraft pleked up the self-made millionaire.
crates at Tripoli in Libyn, others
at Derna, Libya, and some at To most people his anme Tunis. Tripoli seeins the main unknown. In the cut-throat
assembly point.
worlds of commerce
and
A different flight route was politics he is regarded as one of picked each time. The idea the most controversial bustiese was to make it seem the loads Zarrived from anywhere except men in Britain.
the Middle Best.
Exposed
One lypical fight plan' adopted
pilota who
He has multiplied his fortune by trading with countries behind the Iron Curtain, expcelally East Germany
CRITICS
Salesman Sternberg makes a killing
in the East...
by TUDOR JENKINS
:
East
RUDI MYANBERO
П
self-conde minionatry.
Partner
the
In July this year, her father, a movie illrecior, set up Fung-Bo Film Co. with Bo- bo as a partner-the smallest star to go into the film busi ness in the Colony! Their first production, "The Little Orphan," will star Bo-bo in a role that requires her to do many done...
member for Skipton, is a diree-. They mot was asked to grip.
ADVANTAGE
DOWN.
AGNES WONG
∙AT WORK
"Definitely no freedom of movement for me," quipped Pasadena-trained Agnes Wong on the set of "Fortitude of Life" at the Yung Hwn Studio the other alght. The director and cameraman have the say over my acting.".
In a costume of double plg- tails, Chinese silk jacket, pantaloons, and slippers, with a sash around her waist in the iTru Chinese acrobatic fashion, petite Agnes, was talking about her Orsi ex- perience with filming.
"Whorever my interpreta- tlon differs from the direc for's, my idea has to give way. Now I've come to realise the Importance of experience," she said.
other through a syndicate in
West raineS Aberdeen
Angus,
and machinery and many
things. "I own at the com- by the Reds was one suppilexi
a Fricalan cattle, Cormary, who clapped on to the two British
Sternberg, "and handsome profit before selling to In
is parties," says пятитет, Sternberg eventually blew the plot. sky-
us, Sternberg's coup was to per- driven up from Ashford every trade wherever I can find High-Captain Bouil Salon of For this he is assalled by those suade the East Germans to sell morning, and back again wich market." Märgatu and Captain Adam who envy his prosperity and boy direct to him.
evening in his shining Rolls. I ask about his MP friends. Thomson of Wokingham, Berk- thone who regard any contact
"I KO round the fatm every "Burnaby Drayson is a business with Soviet satellites as a dirty shire.
Tho
were day, West GermINTIR
he says, "I am my own associate," says Mr Sternberg. Their route;
furious, mada diplomatie
employ From Tripoli inusiness.
pro- monager - I do not
Mr Drayson, 48-year-old Tory one of Stornberg's co-directors, eastern countries In
again in London, British traders must break tals" north to Zurich, then down to Sternberg shrugs at these feats to Britain and determined a bafilf and I make a profit
tur of Sternberg and Co. Accord. Later Drayson
But Sternberg and Drayton Gibraltar and on to Las Palmas critics, bui no, doubt he feels to win tmc's the contract. Finally out of it."
ing to the latest Sgures at Bush asalat in a campaign to win trado
du hot are eye-to-eye over the airport.
more vulnerable because he is a they did so,
Just now, he tries to leave his House, he has 50 of the 125,000 in Iron Curtain countries.
Drayson 1x Here other agents were ready natyrallaed British subject. le
aro "I said I could not do that Common Market. But Sleborg was not beaten. office before six o'clock. Heanor: £1 shares, some of which to taks
aver Tight under the way born in Germany.
Both "My wife and child are down at held in Liechtenstein and Butter untere my interest in the busi Fon Britain Joining.
Blernberg In dood AGAINST noses of the heavily
nema was made plein." So he was Armed We talked in his offlee in He hotted up the battle.
dam.
1. And he gives three reasons: police of these Spanish run Heddon street, a nondescript als spent large stone on every the farm."
Sometimes Bernberg con made a director. Sternberg points to the photo-
1. AS A FARMER (ho is an Islands,
backator behing Rogent-strest, mean of persunsion in
Germany After 18 months graph on his desk of a beautiful Bulu Bir Terence Clarke, Tory
niliva member of the National The Communist trickery was Bad Sternberg, & plumplsh mon
He has held girl wlis her
18-month-old MP for Portsmouth West. "He
Formers' Union and: the Royal exposed when the two Britons of medlura height, has a dark, Sternberg WIL
is not associated with any of my daughter. Before her marriage
Agricultural Society), he knows prised of a d-and few home round, cloon-shaven face with the contract ever since.
that joining the Common Mar- Gatwick Airport to teli dark luminous cypes and luxurl-
Is being an MP an advantage ket will bring hoed timer for Now all the potash that comes seven years ago, Mrs Sternberg companies," says Rudl, "but he
head of Voice and Vision, I con in this kind of activity? Scotland Yard.
[ant black hair beginning to into this country-except for was Monica Mallory, salelet in a close friend. And as he is
British farmors. Fisons and LC. who buy direct the Badler's Wells Ballet, turm grey,
ault him when I have a publie
for her first film. ́ "Of course, I would not have 2. AB A BRITISHI HUBJECT, How were the meins menI SKY –
have been here all my poses through Stemberg, The
Sternberg, a life-long non- relations problem." -
had this directorship had I not he thinks it will be disastrous eled out from kera?
adult life," he mos
business totals millions « year. Amoker, is also a spare drinker. Drayson in well aware of the been an MP."
for the Commonwealth.
"Another point: You At first he wanted to be a Despite its cost, it has been Bome almost certainly went
But he entertains
At Westminster, Drayson be- royally the gogaly regarding the connection
2. AS A BUSINESS MAN, "I by se Las Palmas in a free doctur; but after being invalided very lucrative victory for him.
many overseas tycoons who dine between MPs and, companies longs to committees for increase don't see what trade we can get poriray an emotion in isolated port and a iluk-up with other from the British Army in 1942
at his house. He can well afford trading with Iron Curials coun- ing Easi-West trade. But my out of the Common Market any- [shots,, You can't be sure how ships further down the count he went into plastics. After the
triona lɛn talked to me about it. Interest is declared," he shys. way. Fer heller to concentrate { comes off in continuity. No
on the 1 know some people think. "And it is wall known."
Commonwealth and on much trouble on the singel" war, he also worked As an was reasonably simple.
thero is something sinister about He agrees with his boys about other countries pulside the Moal reports concerning the oponanie adviser to the United
theko arrangements," The mish, the iminense opportunities for Market, : banind or in front of feeding of arme by sa Info the Nations and made many con-
Agnes has to leap through is clear, Billait tradu behind the Curtain. the Iron Curtain." with men thlak "Jungle roírekls of the tot
Itudi Bernberg · has a town other.
"but my conscientes
more müst hava And he told me how his Dui, traders Cameroons rebela havo been countries
how off Belgrave Squaro,“ Hla
There Bernberg speaks with flating hoops, throw knives red the vulco of experience; The at her sister, and balancé autocisted with Ghana, 800 The furning point in hate how i Kent, Phurendon Manor He now bones about a dozan association wi Budi Sternberg ohcouragement' and ex
tapa. West Germany, le Ja94 Taxperience of one of miles west of the Cameroons.
Ashford, has one of the companies, with several factories began.
our whirling plates." "It'as runt. career cume about 10 years ago, neur The British consul, here, Mr At that Line, Hritish Werner bag, snout, endidgeri: Zarina H the trutaide
it 1002 ho was in Moscow for lind granted so much credit it toughest merchant adventures tough for me,” she said.
·Manchester · Kunjahr
--{London Express #ervisuj. Gerald Miller, confirins that to buy, East Cerise polasia country; on, its? 1,000 morem ho plastics, paper, paper - making economic tsikt. There he met now holds nearly, all the south-
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