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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1949,

""BAND OF BROTHERS" STIR Good Morning

UP TROUBLE IN M. EAST

Nation Of Shopkeepers

rango

hood who had taken refuge in By G.D.K. McCORMICK

Cyrenaica, but the British $12- thorities suggested an inquiry bo There's nothing liko. thered their prestige, and going into fore asking a definite decision. A local bandit is described #s phrase "A Band of Brothers" hiding has made them difficult to

Well may the British wish to having eyes that stare. for welding together a power-contact. Despite every attempt to

probe into this matter, because

But how rude! terrorists hush up recent discoveries by the tho

havo not only ul and warlike combination.

Egyptian polled, a nation-wide marked out King Faroak as an

ມ

The merchant, one

nima

of the

of in

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"The demand for houses is go- ing up," avers a leader-writer.

But the houses aren't

"Murray Brands Lewis As 'Rumour Mongerer.1" Well did they know Someone had blunderered.

Nelson tried it in the British. plot to stage a coup has been "enemy but. recently shave Navy and made that dghting revealed.

orders to saboteurs to co-operate borty second to nohe. Now in the even

A list was discovered By JOHN HALL

in the with Libyan sympathisers for the vast world of Islam the ARMO house of wealthy merchant in "Union with Exypl" mo

movement. Two out of every 17 of the dynamic phrase la building up the little town of Abou Kebir. ItDrive out the British” were working population in Britain underground combination which gave the names of the members

their instructions. Brotherhood who' were

"Band delivering threatens to steal the thunter of earn their livings

foodstuffs, the more moderate Arab League," the

designated to become military Brothera ure to gain control to Caire, from edntributions to be the goods-getting

From Beyrouth All

extend the Egyptian governors of the various Egyptian Egypt, to news

the and hardware textiles,

Cairo to Spanish Morocco the

the event provinces in gathering coup.

of the borders across the Jering Into addressed to Editor-in-Chief. Advertisements and Business com.huntireds of items that are sold

Transylvania, and to incorporate

Mr. Thomas Dewey, governor of force. They present a threat, to

in the Egyptian "Empire". Libya munications should be addressed in shops from the producer to "Band of Brothers" in

New York, spent some time aur- MAIL the consumer.

most European powers inving Merchant Is Chief to the Company CHINA

If they should succeed in Cairo, ing his recent visit to England at They are the people who are

Minhomed LTD.

interesta in Africa.

chief city of the Mahomedan Bow Street magistrates' court in employed

the distributive

He is said to have commented this may well have reper- from trailer, and they

Kanisation called the Alussalman rorist organization in the Eastern your-milk roundsman to the Brotherhood, makes direct at Delta. Illa -Instructiona to the

Aftica.

fcient, the proceeding people working in the show at the facts on Prypts monarchy. Only group he commanded comprised they have links with extreme to so funny as he London even-

commercial travellers,

destruction by bonba rigid and ruthless censorship is the salesmen, dealers, agents, whole keeping from the world the story public building's and the neaussi-Arab nationalist xects in Pakistaning papers hail lejl him to believe.

and Afghanistan and among the factors, merchants, all

their effort to of

drive out the nation of

chiefs. political

Fanutical Derkanul nect ini Mass arreals Jave been made forocco and Algeria. A return middlemen and all the reinfidel and crusade for At the present meeting of alere,

discovery, which following this the Council of Europe at

medievalism. ta med

cache of also a large is ripe for such activities reveal That two-out-of-17 ratio, which

Egypt Strasbourg, it is the Consulta-

official circles,

But the menace DI does not include the people in the corruption in tive Assembly and not

remains. Committee of Ministers which entering trade, the hotel and cafe increasing poverty, bad adinials the "Brotherhood"

defeat of It is because of their activities mixture is attracting most attention staff serving millions of menistration, the smashing and in which may be found, toll of drinks, adds up the Egyptian armies by the Jews, that the frontier between Egypt

to a total of 2,484,000 people. Anancial instability.

and Cyrenaica was closed. Egypt Of these, 251,300 are bossen,

Since they were disbanded, the demanded the extradition of three heads of huge distributing organi-Band of Brothers" have increas-terrorist members of the Brother sations or chain shops, down to one-man businesses.

in Cairo the underground or E) Ilayat, was chief of the ter- in the Middle East and that while British Justice is most

THE COUNCIL. OF EUROPE

a

if anywhere, the seeds of a true European union.

If this Assembly is to have any meaning it must be a

corner,

the

tailers.

The other 2,212,700 are

cm-

parliament and not a confer-ployeen-errand boys, shop manis- ince. Though the delegates tants, delivery men, warehous packers, carters, clerks, are chosen either by national men, Government or by national/typists. Assemblies they will be meet- ing not to emphasise national! differences but to

It will not be easy for politicians in Britain to dis-i tinguish the wide differences between politics on the Con- tinent and politics at home. It will be hardly less difficult to marry in some kind of harmony the British parlia- mentary procedure with the more exotic forms adopted in European Assemblies.

To an Englishman used to the

two party system the multiplicity of parties is the

etc.

Great Army

Confectionery, tobacco,

newspapers, etc.

826,000 250,000

They Also Serve

By NANCY PRICE

Editor's Note-A memorial to pigeons killed on active ser vice in the Inst war was ppened recently in the rockery in Beach Honar Park, Worthing Sussex, by the Duches of Humil- fun. It consists of a bird bath and drinking pool. Men believed

modern [

WAS The Pigeon Post would put inventions

war method of sending

that

The Government says the army baety-nine per cent

is too big;

the

18, in the reduction In

of

and

the

aled

:

written

of

of

Strange Mixture

The Brotherhood is a strange

serions threat to the

•

were'

The man next door, whom I

detest,

Has packed his suitcase and the

rest,

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like the story

nbout the

of economic liberalam And taken taxi to the station. and fanatical, despotic religious To start his annual vacation. idealiam. For this reason they care not how he will employ it, are doubly dangerous and could But I shall thoroughly enjoy it. constitute non-Moslem world.

The leaders

of the Brother- amall-town newspaper which hood are good Man, They carried 'n quarter page of white despot space, in the centre of which was fam and the enslavement of nativoset in small type:

This space belongs to peoples. They wish to free the people from serfdom; they plan Smith, who went off thing with to divide the land and give

hate corruption,

to the peasants.

They wish

regal

to see an extravagance in

while the

end to

the copy in his pocket."

John

Cairo There is, I am told, a swimming Nilepool owner who has erected a people of the valley ve under near-starvation very high springboard because he conditions. But they

want to didn't want to be associated with quick bring about this change of spirit low dives.

or in the rulers by compulsion.

from

Adverse Conditions

a

Morocco.

more

Prime Movers

of

•

•

The consequences of this complete census of the distributiva sip of water, but a seed sand and secrets attacked to Beaufort hoards of arms secreted in the asked how

Д

TO-

These are the main divisions abolish of that huge deliver-the-goods- them. They will therefore try!urmy in which they are employed:

Goods other than food

or drink, retall to appear not as Frenchmen,

Ditto, wholesale .... Italians and Englishmen but

Food and drink (exclud as European Conservatives,

They want to enforce by law ing catering), retall. 089,000 pigeons out of action, but the photographed ducuments, and one

"Beauly and the Beuch"-ā Liberals and Socialists.

Ditto, wholenate

161,300 World War I proved them to report 'containing no fewer than the strictest tenets of their faith. My Summer Flim Programme.

3,000 wurds, 14 sketch-maps, re- They want to stamp out broad- Coal, building materials,

be wrong.

mindedness. They forget that sizzling sunbathing cple of devo- Homing pigeons were used ex-quired three days for the trans- etc., retail and whole-

broad-tion and lotion. A girl in a two-. and cription. This message was one Mahomet was for galo

134,200 tensively by patrol

piece caught his attention. What bonts

followed? Ho did.. Machinery, appliances,

minesweepers, and many of them the most valuable received,

The locations of the V1 and V2 minded than they. batteries al the

Fanatically opposed to Commu- 100,000 sccompanied

from being sent off with mes-runching siles in Belgium were Hism, they say that the answer

to this menace is more devout "Down to the Sea in Slips" 59,800 sages often when guns were in given with the pigeous' ald.

Thousands of these faithful and

Mohammerianism. Yot they have smashing, splashing, seashore sen- are birds of the valoraus For this great army this was action.

forgotten,

been accused of being "Commu-sation with the Clorious Golden nist-inclined."

Girls overdoing the sunbathing not a happy August holiday week.'

got their messages through, there have been decorated.

Commando NURP3IRGU242, a

and getting highly Technicolored. are too although many afterwards that there

red chequered cock, who has won fron exhaustion. any salesgirls, tos many shop

It was found that a wound will the pigeon V.C., was particularly the

The Derkaoui seet In Spanish assistants, too

many middlemen.

"I Spy"--the story of a boy right engaged not stop a pigeon of

operations with

Morocco..and Algeria work on and perhaps too many shops;

serve him,

September, 1942, when he was the same lines. They have been who snooped on his sister's

the prime movers. in the revolt mance and made a packet out that proẞts, or costs, in the in- breed, provided his wings still RAF during June, August and

In the United Services Museum dropped by parachule

the Moroccan officers and of her boy friend. It moves to a into спету occupied among

oc-spanking climax. dustry are too high.

can be seen all that romains of plone' A purge of stalls, custa,

the Spanish zone of No. 2709, heroine of the Menin France and on each occasion re- men in the Spanish forces most striking feature of Con-profits has begun.

informa-cupying with It started tinental politics. Causes of!

Govern Road Battle of October, 1917 turned with valuable

"High Jinks und Sly Winks"- They have marked out Khalifa in this multiplicity are many-ment's abrupt decision to slash Though shot down, she managed tion.

Tetuan to be deposed in the same the tale of a bunch of blokes who proportional representation is shopkeepers takings by ordering to flutter the last lap and drop

In act out to paint the benches red the on the loft that was home to her.

thoirt brothers The official records state that way that only one but the effect is retail prices of a wide range of Before the officer who picked her

the Emir Senuasi more up could take the message off her the conditions in which he had to arms" in the Middle East. have and make the girls yell ""Oh." invariably the same: Coali-

a throat goods, and

leg she died in his hand.

operate were exceptionally ad-fisted

Mrs. Stewart o' the Braes' most tion Governments become the slashes to follow,

Storms slow down but reannot verse, and he was selected by the Cyrenaica, King Faronk and the

time of the famous story was rule and one party Govern- Complete. Census

stop a pigeon. He will make a Air Ministry's Pigeon Officer for Shah of Persia.

The technique in Spanish Moro she had the honour of travelling ments the exception.

Farther ahead there is to be a night halt and he may pause for these tasks of speelal importance

eco has been just the same with Queen Victoria. The Queen "Winkie,"

Scotch Broth was ore extremely important. trades, searching probe of with will not tempt him to loiter.

Two hundred thousand pigeons Squadron, was No. 1 in the RAF Rif Mountains, the preaching of

said Army, pam-or majesty,"

Mrs. and the Pigeon Service, and on one occa-sedition within the Coalitions are formed by bar staffe, costs, and profits in which

all middlemen and retailers will were used by Britain gaining between parties so be required to open their books US. in World War II, and 2,000 in the alter the carryovered sea phlets urging the Moors to rise. Stewart, "there's meat bones in

ali seems far off and

paro- were on daily duty with Coastal after the aircraft carrying her had that a final policy may bear and tell all.

Command.

partially broken up because of chial to people in Europe, but tilt, an' turnips in tilt, an' I-cas

till, an'

parsley in tilt en' the

of "ditching." impact Immediate plan is to cut the

the future of Africa in inevitably

onions in ult" "But what's in little relation to policies of

and By Parachute She struggled clear, with 123 built up

of with the future tilt?" inquired the Queen, any which support it. On the housewife's shopping costs

to were frequently miles of sea The pigeons

coyer before Western Europe, 1t ins warth

"That's whit I've been trying other hand doctrinal rigidity force the industry to reduce staffs,

tas tell ye," said Mr. Stewart. is balanced by a far greater with the idea that those who are dropped by parachute into enemy-reaching land, and with only one noting that, though the Brother-I

friendly and a half hours of wintry day- sacked will go into the under-occupied territory. A critical freedom. Politicians manned industries; thatgiria peasant might notice something light remaining. This meant that bood is, anti-communist, the dupes hero's meat bones in til, at

Unrest in Africa is Moscow's behind the counters will go in a field that looked like a large she would have to ily at least an of Moscow back their programme turnips in tilt

feathers change parties and parties,now factories, especially textiles, white mushroom. When he plek hour in darkness with

chance of recovering lost ground. change sides more frequent-into

ed it up he would hear a shuffling wet and clogged with oil.

"None of the primitive peoples und that young ly than in Britain.

sound inside.

She arrived at her left soon But to dub these fanatics as allies

of the Soviet B fatuous and only understood the blochemical signi- ing apron or tatting up figures Ho would read "Priere after down, in record time, still serves to drive them into a camp flcance od the anti-scorbutic At present countries of

trn into coal-miners or farm d'ouvrir." (Please open). He smeared with oil and completely which they hate. Western Europe are in nearly workers.

Equally

is it muddle-headed The dopes. every case governed by coali- Some people in the industry be- would note the instructions and exhausted.

The message which she carried thinking to imagine that the follow them. The pigeon's papers tions of centre parties. Op- llevo there are some middlemen contained questions, which it the gave the plight and exact loca

of the Brother- tion of the plane, and as a result "liberal" part

Myrtle a basis

Bald she had position is provided by Com- who could be done without, and friendly partisan could answer,

costa thus reduced especially in he did; if not, he would take the search, then proceeding un-hood's movement forms munists and by various the distribution of home-grown them to someone who could. successfully, was redirected and for better conditions in the Arab thinking. "When one is using the groups on the extreme right. foodstuffs. It is

eternal The intelligence was recorded the "ditched" crew were picked world. It bhey gained power, the words whisky' and 'soda', ought clock in North Africa would one to put a syphon between Within these coalitions, there mystery why the housewife has and was slipped into the little up.

put back several centuries.

thom?" Saved Crew at- are wide differences of opi- to pay her greengrocer in. for a green carrier cylinder which was

"While Vision” tached to the pigeon's leg, and if nion. Except in Scandinavia lettuce for which the commercial already supplied. This was

grower receives 2d. or 3d the existence of powerful Minister's View the dawn was fair the bird was brought the first news of a miss-

released with the message.

ing flying-boat through a thick confessional parties creates

When

the bird reached his mist (visibility 100 yards) and a problems unknown in Bri-Trade-made it clear recently that home loft he alighted on a land- 25 mph. head wind in the chill, In the Government's view a hosting-board which automatically wet and stormy weather of the These arise from conflict of middlemen and retallers, and rang, an electric bell, The mes-equinox in Northern waters.

"White Vision" persisted, seek. between a Catholic majority some manufacturers, could got sage was removed and sent. by

despatch rider to one of the Minis- ing among the fog-hound North- and secular state. On the along on lower margins.

ern islands for her loft for eight hours and 40 minutes before she Traders disagree violently and tries concerned. Continent this conflict has contend that overhoads kave

reached it, barely 00 miles from never been entirely resolved. rocketed so much that many find how big they have been in busin her starting-point. It was as a noss, how much they pay for result of her message that the volution Liberalism became,

for them, charge, identified with Clericalism in.

"William of Orange," a hand- in 1942 In 1951 the Board of Trade will turnover, expenses, and profits. some, mealy cock, bred and Catholicism with

re-send

£185. During questionnaire to all Close secret is how the Board was sold for action. Until the last war middlemon and retailers asking of Trade plans to check the training he few 66 miles in 39 it was considered almost im- them to explain exactly what they people who conduct a large part, minutes and was specially select- possible in France or in Italy do, what services they perform, of their businesses on a curb basised for service with the airborne

(Continued at foot of Col. 5) for a man to be at the same

and avoid cheque transactions troops landing at Arnhem.

He

ilberated with an and book-keeping as Jar os time a good Catholic, and a

operational message at 10.30 am. and on September 10, 1944. good Liberal or Socialist, ship than the British Labour possible].

The object of the probe is to Since the war a determined Party and unlike the latter build a complete picture of the arrived at his London loft in four hours 25 minutes, covering a dis- effort has been made to heal never enjoyed the mass sup-distributive trades in Britain to tance of over 200 miles which Included 135 miles of open sen. this wound by the formation port of the Trade Unions. show just how the industry oper-

tain.

men now wear-

an

The President of the Board of

solvent.

It was

As a result of the French Re- it hard to that probe cuines their goods and how much they crew were picked up.

This is where

their staffs,

who

Many lives have been saved by pigeons, but the casualty rate in large-scale operations, when

27,000

vitamin,"

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of a left-wing Catholic party. Since the aggressive tactics ater, just how many middlemen Heavy Casualties It is with the same justice and organising zeal of the have "cut" between goods, loay- the producer and reaching ing that these new parties have Communists deprived them of the consumer, and just how costs tendeti to lose their progres- many of their working class mount.

It is hoped that it will also show specially trained pigeons were sive views in an effort to win supporters, they have increas theConservative voters. ingly become middle class whore there can be some stream-employed, was exceedingly heavy.

On one such operation Catholicism is still, however, parties representing mainly lining, where there is over-charg birds were engaged, 17,000, in the

Or ing, duplication, redundancy,

actual operation. Less than the most powerful political the white collar workers, if wastage of man-power.

per cent. of them survived, but movement in Europe outside the dreaming in terms of re- Historical Gibe those that came Back brought in- England and one which solution and barricades. · should not be underrated. In countries where the It is hoped that it will give formation of great value

the answers, positive or negative birds go through in their war Very few realise what these Social democracy has sutegnenace of Communism is to the charges frequently made fered a severe setback since great there also have been that there are too many middle service, the fear that is experi the war-exoepsin? Scan widespread doubts as to the moun in this country, and that enced, the conquering of this fear: how they manoeuvre to dinavian woountries - "hd÷790

of socialam to fight it. goods in the shope and delivered dodge the terrine gunare, zigzag. Is the most to your home could be champer circle, tumbles When: thus dan- If some of those middlenden were rousky aking height they have Ce of apparent put out of bal

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