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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1980,

THESE HOLIDAY CAMPS

LURE THE CHILDREN

was

By McKenzie Porter Special correspondent

hog through the head at forty- ive yards.

Good Morning

No less than 57. Egyptians are training for an attempt on the. Engilsh Channel.

My 11-year-old son invited to a party by the

I didn't question him. Nor did directors of Wa-Ye-Kwa-

he volunteer any information as Kana, and although I gave

to where he learned to handle a him 50 cents (3s. 4d.) to buy,

rido.

Ho 24364 his own hot dogs, ice cream arst of four generations to handle right to go. The sons of poo Bleycles cost 50 dollars. The pro- period feally, calling out," "Fez, badly watts a bicycle. Traffic inspectors are on duty, at nominali and candy, my bright smile tool more complicated than families are taken

fees to big camps run by wealthy vincial government pays 30 dollars please." was forced.

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MARRIAGE

RODRIGUES-MARQUES

The

wedding of Tomas Emillo Rodrigues and Thelma Maria Marques will take place at Rosary Church on July 19th nt 3 pm, followed by uro

Club at the

De reption Recreio. No invitations are being issued but all relatives and friends are cordially in- vited.

ENGAGEMENT

nounced

THE ENGAGEMENT is ha- between Lieut- Colonel, R. L. Finlayson REM.E., on of Inte Peter Anton, and of Mrs. Juan Finlayson of Corstorphine Hill Gardens, Edinburgh, and of Irene Pendry, QARAN.C., Daughter of the late Philip, and Mrs. Elizabeth or Fern- dale, South Wales,

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

|

a "corkscrew.

lls parents.

Skilled rangers

nearly

Ing quite Canadian..

Next year, too

Cent whose picture we printed the other day complains that the photo we chose Wils terrible, "Didn't look like me at all he Insists. "Reminded me of rocks." Normething that grows on

•

coming. What Jamaica

that?

"Ruslans supply water to US. sector suddenly.

Obviously wonted 1 make splash.

A

I knew that ultimately this his character with some sturdy So it is Increasingly difficult to see his reasoning. Ho's becom happy event was going to cost me little qualities which previously distract the boy with a more about £75.

had not emerged. Altogether we economical, shorter holiday, with Wn-Ye-Kwa-Kana is Red In- were delighted,

This year we planned to save dian for Lake of the Little Canoe,

But the cost! where 120 miles deep in the

money by taking him on a holiday Muskoka forests of

But the money! The fat fee Ontario,

with us. Then came that Wa- The reasons for the high cost Ye-Kwa-Kana invitation, atands a log-hutted camp site to for the season was 250.

On top

The party had games, a play, which my son escaped from the of this there was £5 for rail fare are obvious, Thero is a counell-

lor to every four or six boys. He and lashings of tuck. Old cronies heat of Toronto last year for six and £2 for the laundry.

A list of essential clothing we shares their hut and never lets met again and swore to hit the blessed weeks.

Note to the North Koreans: it It is one of thousands of com were asked to provide included them out of his sight. For oven same trails together again this you think one litt, or many, can mercial

two pairs of adult hunters somellmes got lost, year. camps in Canada cater four play suits,

They sang a song called stop the Navy, you've got another whatover ing for parents who know they'll scampers,

they are, and die of exposure in forest's Wa-Ye-Kwa-Kana Is The Only think

Camp For Mo".. start chewing the carpets it, they emblematic comp shirts, obtain hundreds of miles deep.

The arc These councillors

councillors lobbied the don't get the children from un-able at the most expensive shop) derfoot during the summer holl- in town, and various odds and always schoolmasters, who are boys to get an calimule of how city temperatures ends like Wellington boots, four paid for their summer services. many would go up north for the days, when

sheets and twelve University students and tempers Dannelette

studying 1950 camps.

When Timothy was asked who- reack 100 degrees

pairs of socks, which mounted up forestry do camp chores and give become volcanic.

to another £15.

the boys lessons in nature study, ther he would be camping he Yet this camp is for people of Skilled rangers are employed to said, "Of course,"

30 that's that. I'm caught up/ In recent years these

modest means. I have before me take groups of boys have competed for ellents with a brochure for another camp wolves, bear, moose, deer, beaverf in an annual event that there's

Amerlean weapons originally alf the subtlety of pre-war private which charges £70 for the six raccoons and all the other fas- no avoiding; and with thousands schools in England, and as cach weeks and includes an extra cinating wild c.

of Canadian fathers I am begin- supplied to Russin under lend- I'll have to go lease are now being used against We are told that hunting is,ning to thinit has become more elaborate in its £7.10s. for riding lessons. Some seiting and routine so have its wealthier friends of mine, send not allowed for safely reasons. without a new tropical sult this U.S. troops in Korca.

An uncomfortable instance of fees risen.

their two sons to a camp. which Yet the other day my son took a year and cut down my cigarettes. The great majority are ex-charges £150 a heat.

Seventy pounds for one boy's being hoist with one's own petard. .22 ride, presumably for the first tremely well run and their charges The camping custom has be- time, appeared irritated by my holiday is a lot of money. But are commensurate with the in- come so widespread that almost instructions

cautions, and somehow I can't help thinking mense benents they provide. My every boy considers it his natural promptly shot a running ground it's a good investment. only criticism is that the

social status, of middle class people is in Janger of becoming fixed by the t type of camp to which they send their children,

War' dances

observing camps

Wa-Ye-Kwa-Kana is run by aj minister and his wife, with many assistants, called councillors, and if these good people supplement their incomes through it I don't blame them, for here the clergy are notoriously poorly paki.

Canndinn camps have become scientific Institutions, employing Mrs. Gertrude Foong-kong Chen psychologists, nurses, nutritionists, and Franklin, Rosalind and cooks and dish-washers In ad- Edward Chen wish to thank altion to backwoodsmen who act all friends for kind measures as rides on bush treks and full- of sympathy and beautiful blooded Indian braves who tull

the boys at

nightly pow-wows and war dances round huge log

sion

in their

floral tribulus sent recent ad bereavement,

PRETEXT UPON PRETEXT

fires.

and

"My most exciting assignment”--No. 8:

The question went on and

on and on

It started with murder. Do you remember the headlines: "American Diplomat's Bat- tered Body Found in Wheel less Car Near Vienna"?

He rea

back with chine

a new phase in the Kremlin's bid for world domination.

To affirm the right of as gression on the pretext of national, tribal or racial uni- fication carries with it the

Korea into a single national mediate and adequate. zeal as the North wherever frontiers are threat- State, just Americans had done in the ened.

"Spies"

Al

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确

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Nationalist leaders are convinced they will have much less Struble In Taiwan following the visit of the Seventh Fleet Commander.

"Hong Kong opens towel distribution centre."

Ben good Idea if they opened branches on the more popular benches

•

King Leopold's brother-in-law, Imprisoned for alleged wartime desertion, says he will be grateful fonyóne Baels him out.

* ·

The suggestion that Germans In Berlin be permitted to hold a fres election to determine their future has met with no response from Russia.

Commos do not care for the old-style, reactionary elections, In votes as he which everybody pleases.

By Antony Terry Irving sild, "Don't make a sud- there's fire.

door burst open.

sitting.one

once."

we We

Eventually

But we

Russian guard paper men, and as allies you have woman interpreter was summon

*Wed.

•

F

Was

arcided to try out luck. It was a ever gets out of this business firal to the gates of the hospital, a pers-yours in New York : bare 10 minutes thive in my ent can enble the story to both pa- Let me have Quarter of a mile from the rafi- nine in London. way bridge where Irving's mur- your cable address." Taking out derers had told him, "Turn left." my notebook, I started to write

but before I got beyond the first Last year s 300. Timothy,

word, our

guard with the tommy learned to swim and dive al camp Time: Soon after midnight. Four in iive days after I had failed to men with guttural voices approach

gun had leaped across the room icach him in four years.

the mart American saloon car

and forn

out of my note page out At the gateman's lodge we were book. "You spy, you write secret turned able to ride a horse at fullparken near Vienna's South told by the Austrian, "Please Those who listened in to gallon, an accomplishment he now Station. Just Inside the Russian valt. We will find out." We message," he snarled.

hour passed. Finally the An enemy, probably, writes to broadcast

from shares with his motter, while sector of the city. They tap on selections

Sudofileer returned and we set off it seems exkoreating.

say that to him the whole thing the editorials or Sunday can think back wistfully only to the window, shove a gun in the Waited. For half an hour,

driver's ribs, order him in Ger- denly the door was flung open.

Gentries

It turned out we were Two Russlan

With the jeep. He also night must have been startled the donkeys at Blackpool.

tell you man: "Drive where we

"Moscow glown over North by the "Observer's" reference book-case he had made with his and don't try any funny business." Tommy-guis Istood outside. "Are going to the local Soviet Kam- these the men?" they asked the mandatura near where the hos itis companion, attractive 54-

pital was siluated. Again we har

Korean gains." to a new doctrine of Soviet own hands, and thus became the

Yugoslav year-old

displaced

our tommy unners ax escort,

Another version

the ot

old + policy which could be applied

with their barrels in

ris saying that where there's smoke "Keep far beyond Korea. This was pilot-experiment in aggression person, Dana Superina, is dragged

your mouth shut, you,

den move. They never h hove carried in the Soviet Foreign by proxy" and as heralding into the back seal. 1900."

Thus begin a 10-mic drive

safety catches on these

things"

of the Office statement of last Tues

Advocates

Western which ended in tragedy, and a

An hour's wait in the office day. It began with the

few months later led to my most

then then followed. exciting

Permission to Europe coal and steel pool are usual contention that hostili-

(und uncomfortable) lodge heuper. He nodded, you telephone was again refused, al claiming that such a get-together,

ingly, they approached us, "You ties in Korea were started by

assignment.

was Savie a "provocative attack" of the

Driver of the death car was keep quiet, you spies. You no though by this time it was nearly after all, is Schuman nature.

captain unbent a little and asked ever often we answered, no notice South Korcan troops. Then

Irving Ross, American diplomat leave or try to use telephone," midnight. the statement went on to denial of the right of the attached to the United States they ordered.

Another European Recovery Plan mission

In As a change from tommy guns

and the question was repeated accepted. justify the Northern aggres- United Nations or anybody in Vienna. Ross had been work- Then the alt-hour dragged by it we would like to play dominoes. whatever was taken of our replies

Bindiy

over and over again. The effect play dominoe

was nerve racking, as such independently else to interfere with such ing on a displaced persons Job stormed a swarthy man wearing round we were

Austria shiny leather raincoat. It was

Finally, the colonel said he of this pretext, whose hollow-aggression. The right to at- in the French zone of

would write out a statement in ness is revealed ever more tack is conditioned, therefore, where he met Dana. They became open at the neck to show a dirty with the very same two characters friends, Later when he moved vest and no shirt. Every incli whose gun barrels had made our

Russian, of what we had said and clearly by day to day events, only by the superior power to Vienta, Dana came too. But of his five foot six inches shouted ribs ache so in the jeeps.

As we were about to sit down what he thought we had done. The Soviet Government, to act. In this the Soviet their association was to be short- "secret police."

I saw some gold braid approach- This we were to sign. I refused read, declared the statement, holds advisers made it certain that lived. All that was known about Irving was

the their side had the overwhelm-mile down the road the man his leg down. "Stand up when out to be

the murder at the time was that crossed. The swarthy man kicked ing down the corridor. It turned to sign anything I could not

the colonel who had but offered to write a statement, that the Koreans have

find It sitting next to Ross in the car enter!" he bawled. Irving rose out which "foreign power"

come to interrogate us and

what had happened in English Was If the colonel wished me to, same right to arrange at their ing advantage in Korea.

After another hour of argument own discretion their internal is a lesson which has to be had ordered him to his six feet towering over the paying us fabulous sums to spy national affairs in the sphere taken to heart by the free under the railway bilde swarthy man who turned to me on the Soviet Union's milltary and re-interrogation they sudden

was paule-stricken. The road they Where are your weapons-hand cer

and secrets. He ordered us Into ly demanded, What is your mili- of uniting South and North world and applied with im- had taken led directly to tho them over at once we are noted more waiting while a Russian your military ranka?" It'

room Immediately. Then fullow-tary number, your military unit, I gold in German, Soviet zone.

armed. We are civilians, news-

obvious they still considered Irv ing and myself as military per- no right to search us or keep us After she arrived, Irving, and sons, and probably spies as well. 60's of the last Century, when In spite of the fact that!

And this is where the story really here. The NKVD agent's an- I were called in and asked a series Finally, we signed nothing, and from North they, united the North and the invaders

was after the questions. The colonel begins, for next day, with nothing swer was to frisk us both, Chicago of

most unconfortable South of America into a single Korea have made mincemeat else to go on, I wanted to find style, while the tommy gunners polite compared with the NKVD soven houre I have ever spent we

Not finding any wen-men, but we noticed that, how-I were allowed to depart. national State: A parallel of the South Korean forces] out just exactly what did happen looked on.

during next five minutes pons on ts, the NKVD agent be- is drawn not only in military and now control a large part defore Dana Superina, screaming, came slightly supercilious. action, but in the economic of the Peninsula, the inter- was thrown out of the car and will have to wait here," he sald conditions too in the South. national aspect took as rapid the smart saloon finished up in "You are warned not to attempt

Both parallels are inexact { and as unexpected a turn the a ploughed feld fifty yards from resistantested. Irving, flustered] and inapplicable. There are other way. Had the usual the main road.

I wanted to know who it war by the German Russian language no slave-owners or slaves in laggardly procedure been ob- battered Ross to death with exchange of which he understood South Korea, and there was served at Lake Success, and revolver and afterwards stele hardly a word, said, "Tell him we no national Government for among the Western Powers four wheels off the car before want to leave." The reply was a it to secede from, It was the generally, there would have leaving his blood-soaked body laugh.

slumped over the wheel, his head

During this time jeeps with nucleus, as the only Govern-been merely the potentialities smashed to pulp.

Russian tommy gunners kept on ment elected by direct suf- of a short-lived "Spanish civil The story made the headlines

feel pretty scared. An hour later! frage, of that unified National war," whose outcome would next day all right. But further arriving outside. We began to Government which the have been quick, and certain, research was injured in her fat the NKVD agent bundled us inta

'that Lana, fall United Nations Commission But the almost immediate from the car, had been taken to a jeep cach and ordered a soldier worked so hard to create. It decision of the United States an Austrian hospital in the Sovies to keep a tommy gun jabbed hard failed to do this because the to respond to the first call of had placed an armed guard round each other goodbye we felt any- sector by Russion officials, who into our backs. As we waved North would have none of it: the United Nations, and the the building. The iron curtain thing but cheerful. the North and its Soviet Security Council's rapid ap had dropped with a clung. Cur- sponsors were bent from the proval of the measures set tous, too, was a tight security bon elamped down over the affair by first on the conquest and forth, altered the aspect of the Americans. It wasn't an iron Then began a crazy hair-raising) control of the whole country, whole situation.

curtain with tommy-guns, But it drive through the centre of Vien- Indeed, had the South was a rubber blanket, not by plebiscites or elections,

sound-na. On tey roads we cofcered but by armed force.

Korcans been better armed, prost and opaque,

aver crossings at 30 m.ph, the With no help forthcoming fron other feep with Irving close be It has yet to be seen whe better prepared to wage & either side, the story of Dana and hind and threatening to crash Inte ther the Soviet doctrine, as civil war, even on a defen- Irving Boss got put asido but not us at every turn. A Soviet cap-

basis, stated implies something far sive

international forgotten. It cropped up again thin sat behind me, but my pro-

some months later' when the tests about the tommy gun

gun went more than mere justi- action might already have Americans announced that they Bication of North Korean proved the decisive factor. and the

Russians had joinily unheeded,

Freezing cold, but glad to be aggression. It has in fact As things are it is engaged in interrogated Dans in the Soyib aitve, we swung at last into the been interpreted as a doc-n race between the well hospital. Tana said he could not

Ringstrasse. Three months later trine of general justification, prepared and extremely well- identify to men who threw her dreaded Kommandsluta in the

out of the car. She thought they which could be applied to armed--offensively. armeti- "might" have been Austrians: an Austrian flung himself from British, the top window of this building. Azerbaijan in Persia and by invaders, and armour and Germans. Russians.

American or French." This nor

brought in like ua Bulgarian Macedonia against other forces that have had rewed things down to any of the for questioning, Hound the Yugoslavia and Greece. Ato be brought in during the two million people ving in outcome, and as his body was th still larger field is obviously course of the war from else Vinn at that true.

moved his blood was flushed from exposed by: such a doctrine, where. What a difference

...collongue named Viennese stood every day waiting (rather confusingly) Trying. We lot trams by

stolia to feel the force of the back- had there been in Japan'an decided that now that American soldier with hose pipe.

Irving, and I, however, flash of the North Korean Army Corps of experienced interrogator's had soon. Dana wo aggression. In such a light combat troops organised and should try to check on a rumour taken into a zoom on the ground that she wha to be released next floor with yet another, tommy: the action in North Korda available to move across at day. Next day, a cold dray Satur- gunner, Trying to sound uncon- can be regarded as "a Soviet the first signal of invasion! + day afternout in November, we cerned, I guld to Irving, "Who

the

Ho

We

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Crazy drive

bren

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