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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1961.
NOW FOR 100 DAYS OF HARDSHIPS AND HAZARDS
I'm on my way
-alone to the
Roaring Forties
THREE sacks of hard-
wood blocks, a barrel
of salt, 60lb. of rice, 30 tins of porridge, one Christmas pudding, 600 rounds of rifle ammuni- tion.
bee plegns
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Purge
Brings CH FUN
just a few zd sany
turs marte in aparatan 1. Tera dry
This is 00-miles haul from The West Tradies, halfway across Allantie, across the 150 North Equator and down the Brazilian d Argenbe cousts Lo Pala-
Triwoor blocks BT for wood close, for t 15 cold in
and Kape Horn
Mid-
And all that suit? 1 tug or drug
The ya
KETAN
cukl den ashor
[
4ch caught m The ammunition
Dave an
HARDSHIPS
every
If those of เฟ who pop
1 the grocer's round morning for even twien a weeit). nave you ever considered whal Nina had to you would inry if live in the garage de 1981 clan
any contact with the world Cont withou
without outside
renigeration And what abord
bucks and amusements"
• Perhaps you have sailed a dinghy across a lake or harbour; perhaps you have even ventured a few miles along the coast. But have you ever visualized what planning and prepar ation is involved when a man sets out alone to asil to Cape Horn 7
by EDWARD ALLCARD
wrth you would not get in the Hitage
OT
15.
There is also the risk being turned upside-down a heavy gale. This has happened to ur twice in 1937 and ugain 16 1650. Am I due for another? The first time I lost the boat and had a long swim u the Irish maal the second to 1 nurely lost a mast.
I now carry a strong safety self which can be clipped to a wire shroud and Is designed riller 10 slop you going over The site of 16 allow you to pull yourself back on board if go for a surprise Swim I11 heavy weather, decks of a small bunt wer
repeatedly flooded by
You
in
seas breaking over them.
Nevertheless, Ilving at sea small boot, properly planned be surpris- and equipped ingly comfortable.
can
LIMITED
My ketch. Sea Wanderer, har ful standing headroom below for more than 12ft. long and 5ft. wide. All the accommodation is Tit by electric lett from heavy dots 12-volt batteries, which are The charged
thr once a week by
These are the things which the ocean sailor, especially the simple-hander has la consider Plus the physical difficulties of Lack of sleep and the hardships of gold and wet or the danger at an overboard, general
hazards
rid
Dr
1ha sea diesel auxiliary engine.
How to be married
and happy
– STATISTICALLY
SPEAKING, OF COURSE
By
David Grieve
MORE than 24,000 marriages in Britain end in
divorce each year. That is a statistic. But here's another: 19 out of 20 marriages are successful.
This is the cheering news from the Marri- age Guidance Council. "And the council gives advice to those who want to be among the happy 19:-
LIVE IN THE COUNTRY, Mr Joseph Brayshaw, the council's general seretary, told me. "Country dwellers are more in- cliued to stay on the rails than
ity people.
"Why? Because of the pres→ sure of public opinion in a small community."
YOUR HUSBAND'S JOB: It must be steady-Uke a clergy- mun or a teacher. Or some- thing that gets him home early at night.
The divorce rate is consider- ably higher among commercial travellers, seamen, stage people
... any job that keops à man away from home.
COMMON INTERESTS: These are very much overrated. On the other hand, your in- terests mustn't be opposed.
You must get yourself born into
a happy home...
The reason, said Mr
Eray-
the
Naturally, owing Lo limited amount of fuel that can be carried, the sails provide the propulsive power The engine remains ready for an emergency
enty no other Insurance. Below decks, under the water- fight cockpit, there is
two Primus clus galley, with sloves in gimbals and a seat for the cook
side, und a on one bunk on the other.
Forward of this is the salonr, with a settee on either side and a swing table in the centre The cual stove completes the luxury . The toilet, "heads" as sen. men call it. is n an enclosed
but compartment,
I fear this will be full of the wood blocks and Tuck salt.
The ketch Boa Wanderer
in which
Edward Allcard will spend 100 days slono
few novels (selected for descrip- powdered; so as the milk, except five writing rather than plot) for a number of tins of con- and an exceedingly bad book densed milk. I use instant coffee about one of Megellan's ships, at sea as It is so easy to prepare. which will give a most satisfac-
Plenty of cocos, dried egg, tory splash
rice, sugar, beans, lentils, and a plate of stuff porridge per day should keep body and soul toegther
Books are problem in 糖 small boat. Many books weath ao much and have to be stowed
I am told that I should have so high up. which is bad for
Gibbon's Decline and Fatt, also stability and stability Can be
a Bible closely
aboard But the best allied with
in with survival the
can do is The Gospel of St weather south af appelling weat
in John, sent me by a couple the Roaring Forties.
Now Zealand, with
certain verses carefully marked-à thoughtful gesture which appreciate.
the
So I tend to use the dump- ing principle as I sell down the two Atlantics, arriving in bad area with the minimum of books. I love chucking things overboard anyway.
NEW DEVICE
To
y
Of course, one can buy toned chicken and boned ham and all sorts of other meats and deli- cacies, but I have to cut the costs to the minimum and will rely On fresh dolphin fish
. ! ነ dried
complele my present caught, salted shelves behind the setlees I Passage have
Gasset's Ortega Studies on Lope (more young gear people should read this), various dictionaries. the Ancient The survivors of this game will
Mariner. and a few copies of Include the eight volumes of my own humble tomes which Samuel Pepys, a Spanish edition occasionally force on unsuspect-
of The Leopard. The Uttermost ing guests. Part of the Earth, Shackleton's Smali Boat Journey. Chpe
My gramophone is a wind-up Cupe affair and
from apam
records language
LAN
and
and
I have collection of Ashing
aboard spearguns harpoons, as well as the normal hooks which I buil with red iquer tubing and attach with stainless steel wire.
Fresh water lɛ no problem. Two galvanised steel tanks, entirely separate, hold 60 gallons, while reserves are kept in loose elainers. A halfway house, in the Doldrums. I will them right up with rain water using a canvas sheet as a funnel.
A TANG
I shall not have to wear many clothes for the first month OF two, but dispiriting changes in the temperature will occur in the higher utitudes of the Atlantic. Seasons are South reversed down there, but even in the so-called summer months of January and February frusts and and
winds can howling expected
I have to confess that I am il-prepared at the moment, but, being handy with the sail-needle
make some of own sails) I will turn tailor as "Mike" be automati helmsman does his stuff.
be
I have, however, one-piece Terylene suit to wear at nights. This allows me to pop out deck. If required. without dressing.
on
My home-made garments, made of canvas and blankets.
will be pracheni Appearance will not matter for a long time, and oner 1 arrive in Patagozia I under- nature will take over. stand
slowly
10
Horn, Mischief kn Patagonia Spanish (Tilman has been up to further have but two,
that there one Charles Trenet's mischief in These latitudes). "Hop Hop" and "Listen to the
turns into sheep, an animal besi Chess Probleme, and not much
I Ocean!"
have
fitted for that frigid ellmate. Otherwise
They grow the best fleeces else, barring a few reference to rely on my radios for enjoy
the world there. In fact, they books on birds and fishes and ing music. 1 wish, though,
die if they do not. |navigation and one ou practical had "Never on Sundays, the
cogitation
Bousnika
bit.
Should this catch the eye of the BBC. per- During the many weeks ahead,
A few bottles of rum (55. a I will have nore time than haps they will play it for me bottle out here) grace the bilges hitherto for reading thanks to [1 Christmas Day
when 1 and concentrated Ime and wind-vane
the steering should be far far out in
orange juice will give a tang to device, which guides the bool wastes of the ocean.
the drinking water.
Sea water is used whenever to time with
my
new
by operating a small second got my Christmas pud.
rudder
Give me a thought occasionally as you sirk into your bet bath
between before sliding
dry herts for a full night's rest, Or, if you want variely, sit 24 hours or the garden seat and relieve the monotony from time buckets of cold thrown over you. It's
For health 1 have a 200-day possible for cooking, but I wash water Books which will start the supply for vilamin capsules, my face and terth in fresh great fun, voyage include accounts of other Food generally will be of the water unless it is dangerously So long. small-boa ocean crossings, a dried variety. All soups are short
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-London Express Service).
114CAFORTIERESEDENONCIMARYBETHESOWAN
Japanese newsletter
From David Gordon
A
smashed
illusion
Tokyo,
shaw, is that sharing your The joint meeting of Japanese and U.S.
or wife's love
parents' love helps you to share your husband's with your children.
Not so important!--
MONEY: Your husband's in- come makes little difference.
GOOD HEALTH: "This
Mr Brayshaw. "1
mean you
was
Japanese press had "paid no built let alone to try or test attention to the flattering wel- anything. come given the delegation by the people of Japan." He went on to say that he figured at least 70,000 people lined the way from the airport and waved at the motorcade.
The dignitars doesn't realise that except for a few brief hours before
dawi-
This kind of thing is fairly standard in Japan-procrastina- tion and delay precetle a last- minute frantic rush.
Japan's "Self Defence Forces" celebrated their eleventh birth-
A
there are always 70,000 peo- ple Inlog the streets from Tokyo olly to the Airport and day this week with grand to break monotony they'll
parade through the streets and a wave at any motorcade if the
Meijl Park. On this motorcycle potice
rally in make
flag-waving school- with occasion,
children did turn out in impres their sirena
sive numbers after SDF "pub- lic relations" officers had duly warned teachers of schools ou the route, that it would be good idea if the kids "showed their patriotiam."
cabinet ministers, held for three days at Hakone hotspring,
enough advance noise certainly "historic" in more ways than one.
Despite ample prior wam-
"differences in
viewpoints"
Princess's visit
always underrated as a help to ing to the public in general, the "mutual understanding" was wards married happiness," said and the press in particular, more applicable to
the actual
As un exercise for the can't be happy or considerate if that "no concrete results rather than the possible solution press, this show has caused you're feeling ill all the time" could be expected as an of them
eves more serious misgivings YOUR AGE: You'll influence immediate result of this
the figures in your favour if you. high-lovel conference (as Another paper moaned under "mong the foreign corres
don'i marry too young.
Get married too late in life discussions would be in the heading "Illusions Smashed"
and your
pendents as to what sort of
Princess – Alexandra's im-
range, the Olympic Games.
Q
The Asahi Evening News
Does this mean Mr. K is on the way out?
by A. J. P. TAYLOR
WHA
THAT has just happened in Soviet Russia may be decisive for the fate of the world. Peace or war, the future of mankind, hang in the balance.
Or do they? This is the maddening thing about Soviet Russia. We could get along with Soviet Russia in the world if only we understood what the Russians wanted, what were their real motives, what the driving force.
We don't. We see the outward shape of events. We cannot grasp their significance. No one can.
We all peer across the Iron Curtain into an impene- trable mist. Questions throng our minds. No answers come, only gusses. This week three questions are
baffling and important.
First question. Why have the Russians resumed nuclear tests? Why have they exploded larger, more poisonous bombs than ever before?
1 is inconceivable that the tests were justified by any military need or technical urgency. They must serve some political pur- But what? They have angered, not intimidated, the West. Perhaps they were exploded against some internal enemy, not against us at all.
puse.
He seemed to speak in fear
Second question. Why did Mr Kruschey launch such a fierce attack against Albania? Thus is an impoverished, backward coun- Try with a few hundred thousand inhabitants. Yet Kruschev seemed to be speaking in fear, not in the arrogance of power.
Third question. Why has Mr Krushev turned once more against the men whom he defeated in 1957? They were forgotten. Molotov, Kaganovich, Voroshilov are did men, their forces spent, Malenkoy is buried in distant obscurity.
Mr Kruschov revives their old offences, in which he shared. Be demands their expulsion from the party. He talks of bringing them to trial. Nothing more mysterious has happened Since Stalin's great purge of 1936.
One can shrug these questions aside, and perhaps be right in doing so. Mr Kruscher Is a political leader. The Congress of the Sovie! Communist Party is a great political event. And Mr Kruschev has to provide it with some political excitement. Hence he picked on harmless targets: decayed old men and feeble foreign country.
11 is evan possible to discover a practical motive for the nuclear tests. Ingenious observers have suggested that they were designed to show Soviet Russia's nuclear strength, and so to justify a reduction in her conventional forces.
-YA
enough.
arc
Lied
1 doubt whether these planations cut deep The three questions tight together. In my they point to a single answer, It is this.
5000,"
to
And what does he hope say? Surely the fall of mind Kruschev, and his own return. Kruschev has won before. He will need all his skill to win again. For while he can discredit the his opponents by old memories of
of Stalin's brutal tyranny, these memories fade, and he dare not use what seems
is
to us
Mr Kruschev, far from being an all-powerful dictator,
for his life politically Rgbling and, perhaps, in the most literat BfHce. What is at stake is not
the most obvious answer simply his personal survival. It
He cannot say "Our Marxist is the entire direction of Soviet policy both at home and abroad. analysis is wrong, and the sooner
we give it up the better." The Congress of the Com- should not be at all surprised munist Party applauds him and Kruschey himself were torn gives him a unanimous major- apart. Hait recognising that ity, This means nothing. Previ- Marxism does not correspond to Uus congresses applauded Stalım. reality, half-ashamed of having They applauded Malenkov and such a thought. Molotov until the last moment.
Different
We call do little to ald. Kruschev in his fubt Не would not welcome a certificate from us that his political line 13 correct.
And we can hardly Things are different under the issue to him a clean bill as
Marxist. surface. Things which we some- Yet the struggle has deep times forget. Rigging a Com- meaning for us all. Kruschev
а
munis! congress is ΠΟ mote
believes in "peaceful CO- decisive than rigging a Con existence Molotov and the servative or a Labour conference Marxists want "cold war. The In this country.
phrases look deceptively alike. But for 40 years the Bussion They
apart. are worlds Cold people, from top to bottom, have
war means conflict and been trained in Mandism. This ultimate destruction. Peaceful Is their creed, their religion. co-existence means that in time They cannot think except in we shall all go forward together its terms.
For what it is They cannot imagine in harmony, life without it.
worth. I am on Kruscher's side. Our
(London Express Servics),
Soviet
greatest blunder about Russia is to ignore this and to belleve that Soviet policy is a matter of rational calculation. Reason enters in but only if it can fit the Marxist pattern,
It was R grave accusation
Molotov, Malerkoy, and the rest when
Kiruschev described
forming an "anti-party But Molotov has now group." raised a far graver accusation when he describes Kruschev's present policy
"anti- revolutionary, pacifist; and re-. visionist
68
Terrible
his to the nocimation of
age is against you formal and, exploratory) 500 thut Japan had been "taught a ɛdeul they, can expect with has been running daily heresy. We know how in the "If he's a Territoriai," said again. Why? You are too set newspaper, newsreel, TV and "was for more inflexible than we migent visit and of long English with rewards of kings and emperors tell into
Mr Brayshow, "and you're an in your ways. ardenit nuclear disarmer you
might have trouble."
BESPECT
FOR EACH
OTHER: This is more import-
ant than having common interests.
Shares
Never!
lesson" as America's atitude
still cameramen, flooded the bad thought." small resort in search for
_____"hot news."
Flattering
Wit
Once you
A folnt communique
on
¡Decca
examples of Japanised | Middle Ages the most powertil
them
Albania has no material power
China has not muchi, But
Joven
Y1,000 for printable impotent despair when the Pope
excommunicated" On the subject of these lat- examples. Now the Rus Kruschey sees the same ter quite various doubts are fans have not got into the across his path
being expressed are married---but
The arrangements for news now
that
act by accusing Asahi of only then the statistics mille
coverage were hopeless. Inturiat Musterial, levei on couples who have children
od special correspondents who'd sary facilities will be completed trying to make fools of the Laver Hoxha wind:60- (more than one, praperably),
was flown here for the occasion, in time. Tar wrangling over Japanese.
megaton politient Various alten
he says to Kr/GTA V/WÊRICE. || cursed their embassy officials anul
continued for so Well, thore you are.
Now even If you don't conform to any
issued at the conclusion of the the Japanese Foreign Ministry, long that the ervation of This has initiated on an orthodox say and you "If you boot with laughter of the rules you can still find session. It was couched in the The Foreign Ministry blamed the planned buildings will call for other "Letter to the Edi-ara not. The threat is more when he brings; out his darup happiness
unal Bowery terms and stressed American Embuts for the inconsiderable effort and intently top? boom with the sami. terrible still when Mao Tse-tung collection and he storms out of
di Mr Brayahnw fold me, that there was fur greater "ow up and vice-v Goodwill" to ready them.
silently chdorsoy, it. the house when you alt down at "these rather dress, dreadfully, tust understanding" than ever got severely dented on the
professional Japan lavere volotov is already talking t the plano that's what causes average, paragon tamilter, who BARÓVE
Even with three your ma 10, finding themselves all the cordent tones of violar. conflict it be said.
various offeinds, are presently
Ife told a reporter in Vierina: Que Japanese paper in a rare
One of the visiting American reckoning they have only 10 or to the Rumians over they have nothing to Buy at the editorialfeed that dignitaries, complained that the 12 days, draes to met everything Imused.
I impment, but mikybe I shall have
For
"always" immerge from natioflüs WHERE FOR WERE BORN. never do ou at MATS This is most important or all
bureau loval.
POCKET CARTOON| by OSBERT LANGASTER
"When she
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