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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1950.'

This is the first of a series of articles, by well-known journalists, entitled "My most exciting as-

signment,"

FOUNTAIN PEN SINISTER

I have been momentarily lost in the Sahara in a sand- storm, 'I have explored the notorious Kasbah of Algiers by night, but I still look upon my most exciting os- signment as one near home, anonymous

Eire.

to

By

G.D.K. McCormick

telephone

message

It is the story of how the dis- which said: covery of fountain pen which Lay off stories about mus discharged mustard gan HK$18.00

the tard gas fountain pens. They HK$36.00 face of a Londen hotel waiter led may do you a lot of harm, and

mo HK$72.00

blindfolded assignment they're not true in any ense. I in the Wicklow Mountains in know all about you and where

It was in 1930. The war clouds you got the story." had not yet gathered

over Europe. The National Govern ment was in power in Britain and elgarettes were Is, for 20. Slowly we were coming out of the slough of depression into prosperous but unhappily shortlived-ern.

All nowa contribution to addressed to Editor-in-Chiat.

Advertisements

And Business

be ad- communications should drossed to the Company' CHINA MAIL LTD.

IN MEMORIAM

THE LATE CAPT. P. J. MALEY, A Memorial Service will be held today (Monday), 5 p.m., at the Mission Church, Seamen's Institute, 40 Glou cester Road. Friends are in. vited to attend.

for you to forget your trip and go back to Londen."

It flashed across my mind-was this the mysterious man who had telephoned me.

It seemed nilly to pretend I did not know what he was talking" about, so I just sajd: What

I didn't think any more about do you know, and what do you the message, which I could have mean? Ireland's a friendly count sworn was delivered in A soft try, and I'm just n journalist Irish brogue, until some weeks doing his job." later when I caught the night "That's what the boys of the boat-train from Euston to Dublin. Londen papers thought in the But

Irish

is

Eyed with suspicion by a soured- Looking foreman, I was shown up a wooden ladder into the loft,

Good

Corning

"Struggling boy carried off

Here I saw a huge, tough-look- ferry." ing man mending a bicycle pune- fure. It was an anțiellmax in a I expeceted something way, melodramatica posse of secret agents with drawn revolvers, or something Åke that,

He did? Where to? · "When

⇓ married woman becomes attractive to other men. she becomes more attractive her husband."

ID

Or la divorced. "So Timothy sent you, -did' he 7" asked the tall, tough man;

A Sydney Correspondent in still attending to his bleycie.

paper asks if there is any emigrant Mrs. He motioned to one of his men, with a longer name than and I had my pockets frisked. we have to take precautions," he added, darksty.

assignment."

01

Cernodicdovlene.

It's hurd to say,

Another of our contemporary's

in its entirety: interesting news items, reprinted

"Memphis, Tenn.--(UP)-Mrs. Walter Summerfield wandered why one of her hyacinth bulbs didn't bloom as the others had. he talked She started digging."

Then he

the bench for a long, long time, Expressionless, the judge sat on while the barrister addressed the court endlessly. Finally the judge despatched him a note. It read:

"Patlonce competition. "Gold medal--me. "Honourable mention--Job." The lawyer wound up in

After a long Interrogation the tall man revealed his identity, to the reasons of my visit to Eire He was

Frank Ryan, ex IIA. In the meantime I had done Black and Tan troubles.

leader, who had now broken with quite a lot of research on the they were wrong. It's dangerous the terrorist extremists in the The chief-almost the only fountain pen gun. Weapon ex- to meddle in civil wara." trouble cloud was one caused by perts in London

underground band. admitted they By this time we were on the

For a long while a small but fanatical band of had heard of this device being boat together. There was nothing about Irish politics. Irish Republican terrorists.

used by American gangsters, but to be done about it. The Irish said: "You shall have your fun Mr. de Valera in Dublin had said this was the first indication man in the tweed sult and I ate and your story. But there is one banned the Irish Republican of its use in Britain.

meat pies while the boat thrashed condition you must agree to Army as an illegal body, land Yard was disturbed at re- Scot-

It seemed fairly obvious that across the Irish Sen towards be blindfolded to go to your parts of an organised terrorist the waiter was an accident vic- Dublin. Then m. Some careless stooge of the

came the irreslatible Frank Ryan, that campaign which was to

gallant sweep gangsters-for the nature of the touch of generosity which with stormy petrel who later fought in neross England two years later.

weupon suggested gangsterism- the

Q disconcerting the Spanish civil wars and defled One of my Jobs was to keep a had mislald or dropped the hush-blend of sincerity and blarney. the Gestapo in a German prison, look-out for any evidence of how hush weapon.

It's hard to tell where the blor- was nothing if not the Irish terrorists were operat-

chivalrous. From various sources I learned ney ends and the sincerity begins. Despite his fiery temper he was ing and what were their aims. that the I.R.A. had agents in the Nevertheless I now feel that in incapable of a mean trick.

Increasingly ele U.S.A. who had not only raised this case the sincerity was real if inspired one with trust. that they hoped to bully the funds from Irish-American sym- belated.

day, "During the

10 lost Anyhow, foolishly or British Government into surren-¡

"You won't

found by police get u July at Queen der by a calculated wave of Ume- { pathisers, but had bought wea-|

story in wise, I agreed to be blindfolded children were pons to be stored in hidden Dublin on your own, Mary Hospital to Olwen, wife

When you and to be taken by car to see a and attendants, and restored to of Surg. Lt. William L. Owen

dumps in Eire.

get back your editor will fire midnight rally of the extremist their unhappy parents." R.N. # son1.

you. But I'll tell you what to do. J.R.A. group. Take this address and go and talk After a few hours' drive out "Journalism students spend to the boys. Say it was Timothy to the Wicklow Mountains the three to four years at New York who sent you. They'll know." bandage was taken off my eyes University, and then for the most

I didn't see the At Dublin we shook hands and "test mobilisation" of the un-

man again, and I was shown the midnight part pass into obscurity."

Here- here's a handkerchief. parted. After a hurried break- derground army. There wasn't!

BIRTH

OWEN-On 2nd

COMMONWEALTH

had become

bomb attacks and sabotage.

The general outline of their What programme was known. was not known was the inte for operations to begin and the plans for action.

Suddenly a hotel waiter in the Bloomsbury aren of London died.

The doctor certified death from natural causes, and the matter might have rested at that,

But before he died the man talked While clearing up in the hotel which had been left behind by a he had picked up a fountain pen visitor.

Trip to Eire

A large quantity of armas had been landed in lonely bays on the My news West coast of Elre. editor urged me to follow up my inquiries by a trip to Eirc.

stare.

He

other-

hurry.

Nulsance value.

Д

I was reading my evening fast I set out in quest of facts much military might just on The orderly officer entered the paper in the bout train when I about the I.R.A. which had gone assortment of torrics and vans, a dining hall and asked the men if had an odd feeling that I was underground since de Valera's few machine-guns and Bome there were any complaints. being watched. Opposite me was ban

rifles.

One recruit sprang up and a man in a tweed sult. his eyes Timothy was right. I didn't But it demonstrated that 1.R.A. compiained that he had found a fixed on me with a prolonged get the story I wanted on my headquarters could call out its elgarette-end on the edge of his

own. Official Dublin was helpful, members in ony oren in an plate. I turned back to my paper and but it wasn't the right sort of emergency,

"Good heavens, man!" exclaimed went on reading. I looked up help. I got every sort of possible I was blindfolded again and the officer, "What did you ugala. Still that penetrating line except the address of the taken back to Dublin. I went expect a packet of 20?" store. At dinner he was in the I.R.A. hide-out.

home and wrote my story. dining car, still watching. Holyhead as we left the train for the Dublin boat he sidled up to me and sald:

& KOREA The People's Government in Peking has concentrated upon the Taiwan issue in its public reactions to the present crisis. It accuses the United States of aggression and interference in the internal affairs of China. About the resolution of the United Nations Security Council on Korea, and the rights and wrongs of the Korean conflict, it has remain-enough to make him feel dizzy. "You anay not remember, me,

Mustard gos.

touched He accidentally

the pen's clip. To his amazement it discharged a burst of mustard gas ever his shoulder. Even so it was

AL

I can

Death was due to heart disease, but I know all about you. ed silent. It has expressed but the mustard gas could easily tell you you are wasting your no sympathy for the North have been a contributory factor. Lime in Dublin. You'll find out Korean regime on the "attack" That novel line in lethal wen- nothing there.

to which it claims it was sub-pons was enough to put Scotland Who was the man jected; nor has it condemned Yard wise. South Korea for "aggression." with the mustard gas gun?

Was this a valuable clue in I.R.A. activities.

My story on the mysterious weapon was printed, and some

how or other the owner of the gun must have gone to consider- able pains to track down its au- received DA thor. Anyhow, I

It's much safer

In desperation I thought of Timothy's scrap of paper. It directed me to "the loft above the printing works in Street, Dublin." I decided to investigate,

An anticlimax

from never again heard Timothy or received any strange telephone calls, But when thej bombs started to explode in Lon- don two years later I wondered just what part the mustard-gas- gun was intended to play in it all. As far as I know it was not

I entered the printing works and mentioned Timothy's name. used.

KOREA COULD HAVE BEEN SO HAPPY

and valuable industries.

"What was Mrs. Jones talking about?"

"Business."

"But whoso?"

•

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Local beauty Item on subject of enlarged pores saya, "Actually, tboy art ditated openings of the oil glands."

In point of feet. It is not so much an art as a science,

Pause cause.

When dressing in a hurry, My haste is often macked By my pause to disentangle Coat hangers with antlers

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The tired State Department by the United Nations to see if it clear that the United States is

From man had been in conference any method of unification could inextricably pledged

English provincial be found,

maximum support

paper. "His Lordship adjourned The Communist - dominates Korea is better situated

the court on counsel intimating the Prime Minister replied all night. But he smiled wryly they were dealing with a mat- when he said: "Yes, we think aren of North Korea has fatly other Far East points to receive that there were several pints to

clear up." Korca nid. ter of aggression, "in which it's damned serious-it's al- refused to supply South we are all acting with the most as if they were invading any of the products of its modern some 150 miles away, and ship- with hydro-electric power pr The Japanese mainland is only United Nations. The ques- a bit of America."

He was pinpointing the over- tion of Indo-China is a sepa-riding importance of South Korea rate one." The Prime Minis- in the ever-developing clash be- Communism and the ter similarly ruled out an- tween

[--Korea - owes its-very-existence other question, suggesting Western World in the Far East. British initiative in trying to as a sovereign nation to Ame- get an Asiatic Pact on the rien's leading sponsorship. Shoult lines of the Atlantic Pact it fall to invasion from the Norli

it would be a tremendous blow without delay. Mr. Attice, to America's prestige throughout however, said it was perfectly the whole of the rest of the Far clear that the instructions to East. the British forces were to act strictly within the limits of the Security Council's resolu- tion."

By William Hardcastle

But the problems posed arc immense. The United States has not so for intervened directly with its own forces against Com- munist uprisings in other parts of the world. The risk of inviting a Despite all these difficulties direct clash between Russian and with many million dollars forces, or forces under Russian worth of economic uid from the command, and the American United States South Korea won forces is obvious in this case. Its Independence two years ago:

Unlike President Truman, who linked the two issues to- gether, Peking seems to have kept them separate, and that action is certainly much more adroit. The only broad link 'between them lies in Mr. Mao Tse-tung's "hands off Asia" statement to the Government Council after it had heard Mr. Chou En-lai's report on the international situation.

Whether it was wise to con- fuse an issue of civil war with an issue of aggression remains to be seen. The development of which the Security Council took cognisance was the in- vasion of South Korea. On this the whole free world has shown remarkable unanimity. This is particularly true of the Commonwealth. The lead was quite properly given by the United Kingdom, which

gress, under the Preadership of Immediately placed British

Synghman Ree.

If South Korea falls, Stato De "Elections" were also held in partment officials feel that the Naval forces in Japanese The most important deve-China

are present teetering on the North Korea (and a "People's battle of Indo-China will have waters at the disposal of the lopment of all in the Common- borderline between an alllanco Cominitice" took over. The been lost before it is fought. United States authorities on wealth was the decision of with Communism or trusting In Russian troops withdrew; but Events on the new battlefront

they left behind them a well-will be watched even behalf of the Security Coun: the Indian Government to the friendship of the West.

closer in Korea is another of those hap- trained police force which un-Japan cil in support of South Korea. support the measures decreed!

less little countries caught in the doubtedly constitutes the core of Mr. Attlee's announcement to by the Security Council. The middle of, and dismembered by, the invasion force driving South invasion has been supplemented Reports that the South Korea this effect was forthwith ap- Indian member of the Coun- the world's diplomatic struggle. today.

Lam year the Americans de const stress Japan's need for by amphibibus landings along the It could be a happy country, proved by Mr. Churchill and cil abstained from voting on and its 20,000,000 people could elded to pull their 50,000-strong effective island defence. also by the leader of the the question because of lack live well off its rich resources. occupation force out too.

Stepa

These are some of the elements Liberal Party.

of instructions. Since then But it fell sick of that modern were taken to give arms and of the major new international This action was followed by the Indian Cabinet has met territorial disease "partition." training to South Korea's Internal problem thrust on the American the similar decision of the twice and announced its could not agree on its future. So Army personnel are still in the

Russia and the United States security forces, and 300 American Government so suddenly. Australian Government. The support of the Council and it became two countries

North capital city of Seoul for this pur British Prime Minister, in in- of the measures it had de- and South of the line which the pose.

American and Russian occupation forming the House of Com- clded upon. mons of this, also referred to An official statement said

the Jap surrender the Press reports that Australia | this did not represent any Thirty-Eighth Parallel.

body in half.

peace,

?

Partition victim

It would gravely weaken the morale of those countries-Indo- a prime example-who

and has made considerable pro- Effect elsewhere

forces had taken up at the time Superior force

crate with the Commissions sent

CANADIAN NAVAL ACTIVITY

But there is 1tle · doubt

that the North Koreans have an over- whelming superiority in numbers

News of the

attack shattered

the peaceful quiet of a sweltering Washington (week. It obviously came as an immense shock to the

topnost United States celals.

Invasior, had always been con- sidered :

red a possibility. The North Korean radio had made, à habit Esquimalt, British Columbia,- of mouthing continuing threats July 1. But no reports of troops concon- Naval activity here was listed trations had been received, and pared today for possible police this time of the year--just before duty in the pacific...

the rainy season starta.

is retaining the occupation change in India's foreign. It was like cutting a human troops in Japan till the emer-policy. The halting of ag- the industrial resources; in

In the North lay and in the quality of the Iussian- the supplied equipment. Nor is there gency is past. The New grossion and the quick re- South the farmland and the rice great confidence in the South Zealand and Canadian Gov-storation of peaceful condi- paddles.

Koteans' ability to withstand a ernments also affirmed their tions were essential preludes

It has been one of the world's purposeful and well-planned in-

vasion. support of the Security Coun- to a satisfactory settlement, trouble spots ever since,

Russia has refused to co-op- cil's resolution calling for aid and therefore the Govern to repel the armed attack by ment of India accepted the North Korea and to restore measures decided upon to that end. It added that Indian Any suggestion that the foreign policy remained based Security Counell was not on the promotion of world competent to take decisions to peace, and the development deal with the breach of the of friendly relations with all peace in Korea on account of countries. "It remains an in-secret as three destroyers pre attack was considered unlikely' at the Soviet Government's ab-dependent polley, which will sence from the Council is re- continue to be determined

A Naval spokesman ; said the · Probably as surprised as any- Jected by Jegal opinion. The solely by India's ideals and

crews were - stowing away final body was John Foster Dulica. practice has been accepted in objectives." IN

equipment and gear aboard, the Special Assistant to Secretary of the Council of regarding the In this connection a noted vessels, Cayuga, Blous and Athab-| State Acheson, who only a week abstention of a permanent Indian leader, Mr. Masani, pakon and the ships would sail ago was in Seoul making a per- next round address to the South Korean- member as constituting no

Parliament. veto.on the Council's decl- made during his visit last year sions even on substantive to the United States: "Where matters,

my freedom is menaced or justice In reply to a question by threatened, or whore, aggres-

cited Pandit Nehru's speech for Pearl Harbour early

Week.-United Press.

POPE'S HOPE

are not alone," he told them,

"You will never be alone so long as you continue to play worthily your part in the greft, design "of human freedom.”

Mr. Flatcher about the Gov-alon takes place, we cannot

Vatican City July 1. ernment's" attitude to Pre- and shall not ho neutral”. Ho

Pope Plus told 20,000 pilgrims Support pledged sident Truman's reference to used this quotation to back up far from the world; the scouts of It la doubtful whether he ex-

tonight "We hope God will, keep Indo-China and the bearing of a suggestion that India should war and will, inspire all peoples peated his words to be taken 'this on the defence of Malaya, I give’material aid.

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