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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1961.
GREAT ANIMAL STORIES
HORTLY before we left our hill-top hut at Bakebe in the Came- roons and travelled down to our last camp at Kumba, we had to stay with us a most un- usual guest, in the shape of Cholmondeley, known to his friends as Chum- ley.
A singing
chimp-
it's
Chumley Was
full- 1 grown chimpanzee his owner, a District Ofcor, was finding the ape's large size rather awkward, and ho wanted to send him back with us to London Zoo.
SLOUCHING
He arrived at the back of a erall van seated sedatoly in a hugo crate. When the doors of his crate were opelled Chumley stopped out with the onse and self-confidence of a film ator.
Standing on his bow legs in a normal slouching
chimp si tion, he came up to my waist, and if he had straightened up his head would have been on a level with my chest. He had huge mm and must have
measured t least twice my measurements round his hairy chest.
enough to
DRAWING BY CANDY VHDOLL
make a man fall off a lorry!
As I poured tea and milk into well as the mug; he solved the Chumley's mug, and added problem by placing the elgarette three tablespoons of sugar,
he on the table.
tye, und watched me with littering soft "ooing" noise to himself.
made n
CAREFUL
That first day he created an uproar, for no sooner had 1 left him chained up and gone into the hut to do some work than a frightful upheaval took place were tethered on ropes under a among the monkeys. All these pulm-leat shelter just opposite
the hut.
after
by GERALD DURRELL
The first I know of this was your finger betweenenáther ape's when I heard
scrcoms
teath and to do the same with und chatterings from the mon his, is a recting and sign of keys, and dashing out, 1 was trust, for to place a finger In Just in time to see a rock the such a vulnerable position ign size of a cabbage land in their sure display of your bollet in nidist, fortunately missing them the other's frienditness. So
Chumley was flattering me
t}],
chimp.
by
Setting a stick, I raced down treating me as he would another upon Chumley, waving it bnd shouting at him, trying to ap pear fearsome. To my surprise, Chumley promptly
lay on the ground covered his face and his head with his leng arma, und proceeded to scream at the top of his voice.
I gave him two cuts with the stick nerom his back, and it had about as much effect as if I had
tried to demollah St. Paul's Cathedral with a toothpick.
"You are a very wicked ant- mal," said sternly, and
from .himslf.
"Whoooseo...."
MELODIOUS
The day. of our departuro from Bakebe dawned, and when to load the collection he realised Chumley saw the ferry arrive he was in
favourite sports, a lorry ride.
for one nf hig
II< hooted and yelled Sund danced on the end of his chain With
excitement, and best a starled to remove bit of leaf will tattoo on his crate, making og much noise as possible Bo that WT ahould not overlook Buld, him. glancing up at me shyly. He wifted forward, squatted down been loaded, and commenced lo roll up my trouser leg, and then search my calf for any spets, bits of dirt er other microscopic blemishe
he
when carried
That night, Chumley's food and drink of tea out to him, he greeted me with loud "hoo hoor of delight, and Jogged up and down beating Before he touched his dinner, his nuckles on the Ground.
lowever, he seized one of my
Chumley, him,
I had left hands in his and carried it to felt bored, to
his mouth. looking around he perceived some size-
Then he tested the ten care. fully with one lip stuck out, to see if it was too hol. As it was, he sat there and blew on it un- tit it was the right temperature, and then he drank R town.
1 attached Chumley's chain I handed him the mug and to a great gnarled tree stump,
took it carefully 141 both from where he could get a able rocks lying within easy watched as he carefully put one Owing to bid tooth growth, bande, There was a moment's buth sides ut
Aiming himself his fuce
with of my fingers between his great were confusion when he tried to rid good view of everything that reach.. swellen out of all proportion, himself of the cigarette, which went on in and around the the proceeded to have a teeth and very gently bit it.
Hitle under-arm bowling proe- and ibis gave
weird, he found he could not hold as hut.
The him
Then I understood: in tice.
chimpanzee pugilistic louk. His eyes were
world to pluce small, deep set and Intelligent.
He stood on the ground and surveyed is surroundings with Rabrewd glance, and then he turned to me and held out one ut his raft, pink-palmed hands to be shaken, with exactly that bored expression that one sees on the faces of professional hand-shakery.
Hound his neck was a thick chain, and its length dropped over the fallboard of the lorry und disappeared into the depths of his crate.
Chumley wore it with the alr of a Lord Mayor.
He gathered all 15ft of it up carefully into loaps, hung it over one hand and waited into the
Į hut as if he owned it.
I almost felt I ought to apologise for the mess on the table.
IN DISGUST
Leaving Chumley In the chair surveying our humble abode with Il-concealed disgust, I went out to his erate, and in it I found a tin plate and a hattered in mug of colossal proportions.
When I returned to the hut bearing these Chumley brighten- ed considerably, and even went so far as to praise me for my intelligence.
"OoooooD, umph!" he said. then crossed his legs and con- inued his inspection of the hut. I sat down opposite him and produced a packet of cigarettes. As I was selecting one, a long black arm was stretched across the table, and Chumley grunted in delight.
Wondering what he would do I handed him a cigarette, and to my astonishment he put it care-
|
The
woman who
With some trepidation
1
Wate: everything else had his crite was halsted on board, and then ho lightedly. climbed into It, hooting de-
not gone far before the stuff, all We started off, and we had cinging to the beeck and sides of the vehicle, started to
sing loudly, as they always did, and
houting which convulsed them. presently Chumley joined in with a prolonged and metallous
In fact, the cook-male found singing chimpanzee so amusing
that he fell off.
Not long after, London Zoo's offelal collecter arrived in the Cameroons
and,
with great regret. I handed Chumley over.
-{London Express Servica),
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Number 3 in the fascinating new series that brings you news of men and women who once made headlines
spent seven years in
solitary confinement
A WHITE-HAIRED, stoutly
benign old lady stands by
by
the back door of her cottage and LLEW GARDNER
calls for her cat: "BOONCA."
Her cry is unheeded and she her ardent Communism. For a that extra-ordinary high-pitch- where she was calls again, her volce rising to me she ilved In Germany, married and ed squeat that English women divorced in six months. In 1933 adopt when talking to animals; she came to England She "B-O-O-N-G-A."
marded an Engilshmon who From the hedgerow, a died in 1997, brown-black flash of Burmese
cat streaks towards us, Alop- ping short when she sees her mistress is not alone.
WARNING
con-
"Come along, Boonga, he
In England, Dr Bona won't hurt you." Her back tinued to work for the Com- arched in suspicion, Boongo munist Party, The mkidle condescends to be stroked.
thirties found her in Spain.
She
Easy for the casual onlooker
In April 1049 Edith Bone another of to dismiss this cat lover as
went back to Hungary, those delightfully had been invited to do some vague and pleasant cranky old translating work by a Hungar dcors who seem such an essen- tial part of the English scene. credentials signed by the editor jan publisher and she carried Easy and so very wrong. The cat wriggles from tier mistress's arms and returns to
I
four months her that the
of the Daily Worker. She was to write about the glories of fully in the corner of his mouth. the private jungle of the hedge. Socialist society for that paper.
I handed Chumley the My hostess, her voice now re-
At first she was happy to be matches, thinking that
back in Hungary. But some of this stored to a deeper key, says: the Communist oficials looked woukl fool him. He opened the
" you are going to write on her with mixed feelings. box, took out a match, struck about me I think it would be After only
the better if you didn't name the friends worned 11t his cigarette, threw matches down оп the table, village where am living. secret police planned to arrest crossed his legs again and iny There are still cranks in this her. Dr Bone laughed at them. back in his chair, Inhating world who might want to visit
Why should she be arrested? thankfully and blowing clouds of an old woman living alone. She had given a lifetime to the
moke out of his nose.
have made some enemies
Communist cause. The idea was ridiculous. She still believed in the Communist Brotherhood.
On October 1, And at the age
1949, Edith Edith Bone feels that she is port to take a plane to London, of 72 Dr. Bana arrived at Budapest Air- entitled to a sulllude, from the
She cleared more
Customs and cranky of whatever
walked towards the plane, She enemles the hos collected Eh....acht!"
was nearly on board when two gasped, through life, backing away.
Do you
Edith policemen called her back.
Courteously they explained "Whar....hoo," said Chum-Bone? No one who has ever that her visa had expired at ley, sighting the tea and waving me! this fantastic woman Joe hand madly.
likely to have forgotten the midnight the night before and that it she would just accom- name certainly not the Company them to the allons office munist secret policemen who everything would be sorted out. guarded her through
Just at that moment the bay entered bearing the tray of lea; the effect on film when he saw me sitting at the table with the chimp, smoking and apparently exchanging Rossip,
Con siderabit.
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make "type" and laid out non- sense rhymes of her own in- vention on the cell fluor.
And in the end it was Dr Bone who defeated her guards. One told her: "I say you're a holy terror. Good job you're not my mother-in-law,”
One thing kept her strong: the knowledge that she was a British subject and that the British Government would not desert her.
I never did. All the time she was in Jall the Foreign Office kept up its inquiries. Always the Hungarians answer- ed that they had no ides where she was.
The Brilleh Communist Party,
whose protest might have had some effect, kept its mouth shut. So did the Dally Worker.
The attitude of the British Communists didn't surprise Edith Bone. "I was always i black sheep and never a white sheep," she says, "I had been brought up in countries, where the Communist Party was based on poverty. I never had mulch time for a party run bu Hanip stead intellectuals pretending to be workers."
When she returned to this country-having been released by Budapest freedom fighters- only one or two of thỏ Com- munist rebels sought to get in touch with her.
From the lenders-7iot One word. They had obediently followed the Moscow line by denouncing the crimes Stalinism, but their convertion didn't go so far as saying sorry to Edith Bone,
DA
COLD STORAGE
Back
in Britain, Dr Bono took up her life, minus the polllles, where she had left of te like being in cold storage, "Being in solitary confinement When you come out you
They offered her a deal. If home" to England once a year. would confess to having She estimated the distance been sent to Hungary by Bri- from Budapest to London. as Ush Intelligence to organise 1,250 miles" and paced her cell sabotage they would sea that each day for so many miles so she received a light sentence. that at the year's end she could
When alto came out of prison say she was home. she would be given a furnished flat and allowed to live
Each year sho wont by a resume where you stopped peace.
Once
BiG
Just
years of solitary confinement in a Hungarian prison cell.
Now do you remember? Edith Bone, who, in the middle of the Hungarian uprising
with the 1030, walked Into the British policeman-to begin a seven Legation in Budapest and back year nightmare. Into a world that had all but The car swept past the allena given
up hope for her office and drove to the head existente.
quarters of the secret police.
different route,
gwam" Lake Constance, hav- Years Solitary-about, her co- She wrote # book-Seven Tough ald Edith Bone, who The Gestapo had once used silli gëts angry at the memory this building. Now it was the
Dr Bane refused to confessing chosen to go by switzer- periences. of a reporter who
she is busy...on a said that nerve centro of an organisation
land. Ehe went through
the abcond book about her 39 tish Legation and fainted after differing only from the pre- laxatives into the already dit in her head of all char sho "staggered" Into the Bri- no lese brutal. An organisation confession the Communists, put swimming motions in her cell. years as a Communist
Denied books, sho made s her ordeal.
vlous tchanto in its slogaris.
"You might say that it isn't gusting prison food. "Stuff
"You aro a British spy said pumped exhaust gases into her Stendhal, Dostolovsky, and
Dickens,
very complimentary about some Balzac, Dr Bouc,
and people," she says, was imping the Communist thugs. Edith cell,
They deda rope tightly Thackeray. because my shoes
were too Bone laughed in their faces. round her neck-to show her tight."
They flung her into a window how it felt to be strangled.
זיי
nonsense," SDYS
Tic path that took Edith loss cell, 4i. Gin, wide and 10ft.
pho
The alternative?. Death.
in their efforts
to force a
They
in acters
She Is aware of the irony of her position-flie end-time pro- fessional revolutionary in this
Yet there inclice only made DID NOTHING to English village:
her will stronger. For the first 母 Ume Dr Bone was seeing the
extract
If someone had told me that
She made a 12-row abacus fish village in a love of my
I would end my life in an Eng-
Done to a furgarlan cell began tour. There was no heating. many years ago. For 30 years The only fumliürg "Wayn
bed was a loyal Communist. plank
placed directly true face of the Ideal she find Hungarian born, she joined the bendah a powerful
ettelric nerved.
After 14 months the from "putty" balls made out own I would have laughed' ae Communist Party in Petrograat bulb that burned day and Communists gave up trying to of brand art water. With this them and told them the idea (now Lejlingrad) in 1919 when. night.
confession, and d khe counted up all the words was impossible. anti-Bolsheviks were seeking During the first six years mock trini was held.
she, knew in seven languages. We shook hands, the force to crust the Soviet revoluifion, and 60 days of her ordeal, Dr She wen found guilly and The total was 100,000,
She was a doctor, nod all her Bone was kept in solitary con sentenced to 15 years--although Boho should know. She count an optimist?' I askediamanka
Dr old lady and 1... “Are you all humanitarian feelings roso In finement. Sho never talked to at lhe time the Communinta od it 14 thnos, anger at the brutality of the another prisetier. Iler
believe that what, darbai only omitted to tell her this The Denied' haircut, who pulled briga town on itself its own White Ruslan generals.
visitors were the grand masters war of nerven cofilsnued. dul her own hair strand by punishment and what good Dr Done was 30 when she lost from the twentieth-century : Denied sumelent exercise, Dr strand. Denied writing materi muddler on, the replied. her Hungarian nationality for inquisition.
Dotte kept by walking, ak, she used for putty"
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