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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920.

SPIES GO OUT TO DISCOVER

THE PRICE OF A LOCUST

Poring over a large-scale, map of Africa and Arabia ts

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By Dudley Hawkins

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Every

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vallaby

man thie

but were breeding rapidly along. 1,000 miles of the Arabian' coast and for all worknow, "theyohay:

The Argylls are marching into a alight, bespectacled young

be even heavier breeding in thet

Koreans are man who is planning, withorship of the Desert Locust Sur-

"Arablo, and particularly the interior, Mr. Stephenson want uction to the skiel of bugpipes.

on. --

Gees va The North

achding another the precision of a military voy it was to discover the breed- Yemen, have been rather a pro-Already loose swarms have believed to be

the United Nations, tactician, a campaign to re-ink habits of the locusts, in those blem but they are low co-opcral creaped our exterminallon squads petition tu per un airborne asadult that remote areas that "Stove as he ing with us. Mr. Stephenson and are in; Eustapla, The Jirst 15 yolesting against this appalling

is known to his colleagues, or went on. "Our motorised units of our defences, has decil byene korni of Wartake. can mean disaster to

thie ganised & spy'ring."

made the Journey from farmers of East Africa.

The splus-wore Arabs who Bahrein, on the Persian Gulf, to The news now masking in could enter the forbidden arena Djeddali, on the Red Sea. There Survey, is en "front-line';, duly.

This place, I am sure the Qur:menrenile the

Motorised patrols, dro the tmexplored deserts of Arabia and obtain samples of locusts is no road.. and on the rocky, inhospitable from the caravanserale, and mar road, for in these wastes sch of the areas with a inixture of utan Trame Agrigent must agico, is coasts of the Red Sea, oro Selis-kets.

tyre tracks is enough to be called and gammaxene in offest to a dausosur erne tocerone gregarine...the dread-

Four inches ed desert locusts which have al-

slc," explained the ready in living michory twice ravaged the farmlands of Kenya, Director, locusts are a prized and which, in Biblical times, item of food on Arab, mentis. plogued the Pharaohs.

They are sold in the markets and our scouts visited these markets, bought the locusts and sent then back to us.

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sandy

At any rate, this is".

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With such may evidence to kill the young insects, and high An agreement, of course," has planning à carpaign that will the swarms wherever they unu

them, 50 on the Locust Survey are pressure sprayers are attacking no option but to agree.

"Somo sarma, are 10 miles) reach from the Belgian Congo to

"Ruslan ships wald carrying India.

ácross, and in Africa once..you Cause of the present threat is act of the Fond the country us Key man in the anti-lavasion enropaign is Mr. P. 1. Stephen

torrential rain wastes, at Rub al Khall (the trackless, and locusts do not son, Cambridge graduate, Dirée

If the locusts are cheap we

Arabe call this the "Empty Quare always choose to breed near the board. tor of the Desert Locust Survoy. who, 'In 1949, was called from know by the law of supply and fer), in South East Arabia. few ronda diat there are la bis] : 4.

according to army service to stem: a previous demand that they are plentiful. Normally there is an inch of rain part of the world.. invasion, j

It they are brown we know that year but in October, 2948, there We started in 1040 to study Tadas.

their habits, and athlost heford contemporary, the Hong Kong .D-Day

is somewhere in the they come from swarms prepar-were downpours, st

The locusts bred by the million, the Survey find started we are in Council of Women will meet at summer of 1951 although Isolating to nigrato."

Scores of boxes littering the and the Survey could not keep the throes of one of the bingot THAI Y.ME, A. ‚ed groups'of locusts have alɛearly intrated past the first Unes of floor of his office bear witness to check on thont because news did battles over waged against out. Nothing like a little masculine defence and are breeding in the work of these locus scouts: fiat come to them till too late. "It will be a tough light and company, when a girl gets lonely,

Within a few months locusts we'll inflict a lot of casualties, but Ethiopia on the borders of Kenya tell of the relentless Westward

Bight from the South Eastern (Ip from this area were spotted in we'll need the help of every far- that's what I always say. of Arabia to the deserts, of the Oman, and on the India-Pakistan niet in Kenya when the real fre

the borders of orders where they bred unmovasion begins."

Damage in the FOOTNOTE: Ogaden. Kenya's Northern Frontler, dis tested during the heavy monsoon last locust Invasion of East Afri

rains. trict.

Carefully packed in the boxes India and Pakistan were too ca cost more than £3,000,000. International Bathing Pleale for are locusts of various sizes and busy In the complications of par-This year the land is more, inten-Fersonnel. colours. from ween miducts

Impossible to asscas wat dinge and the millions multiplied.

sight be done, but the "hoppers, bively half-an-inch love to durition to pay attention to lacusts sely cultivated and it would be 1,000 miles

con strip a feld of maize, festroy brown monsters niore than Tour inches.

Each is examined, classic "By May 1940, the locustsplantations, bring trains to a halt according to type, date and dis were reported in the. Aden area, by settling on the tracks, and triet, and another little doti.isand by the end of the year they blachten the midday sky by their added to the maps.

hed not only crossed into Africa, swarms.?

Some get through" I saw Mr. Stephenson on his return, the other day, from a 5,000-mile reconnaissance trip by air, road and foot to the breeding areas, in Somalliand, Eritrea, Entlopla and Arabia.

The Kremlin has lost the campaign of aggression in Korea, though the United Nations forces, have yet to win it. If the aggressors had pushed the defenders into the sea, diplomatic and other measures would have been instituted to prevent them The walls of his office in from coming back. Now that Nairobi, GHQ of the assauli for

Cen, are covered with maps, with they are practically certain masses of dots of various colours. to stay, the issue of the 38th "Each dot," he told me, "re- presents a locust breeding area, Parallel becomes paramount and the colours indicate whether Having lost the war gamble, logusti oro. breeding, growing up the Russians want to win theor preparing to swarm. Almost "pence" by restoring the every day I have to add to the dots hs the picture of the threat status quo and then getting grows more grave. the United Nations forces out.

We can tell now wint the locusts are going to do because

At all costs they want to prof the discoveries of Professor

on

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New leaders in Asia

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announces The summe celuma

"Hong Kong' Women's

Indefinitely...

I understand bren postponed

projected picnic for household

"In Asia," says a locally-printed report, face, ranks high

This Is like teaching your grandmother to suck, oranges, or something.

Uvarov, the world's greatest ex- have been hard to find any-imprisoned him for three years.

Immediately after its folense, of Indian Communists and joheu depression,

a

the

Commonwealth asked to act as broker, betweeii U.S. ́and "Peking, Most appropriate. What with und irado Twenty years ago it would French agent, arrested him and at Calcutta University, and while

there came under the influence increased taxes

are becoming vent unification of Korea un der a Government that, what- ipert on locusts, who found out ever else it may be, will cer- that when the desert locust is body in London, New York he returned to Indo-China and the party. (Until quite recently broker every day. tainly not be as much of all changes Paris side of retired was recolte signifience of this tavernese Cammunists scene

Instructions from India). ds that, though is activities had

The Truman-MacArthur mix puppet as the regime they in-brown colour from green to colonial administrators who Vietminh. The significance of this have

Professor Uvarov, qulet-could name any of the polleen little known to the outside in the early stages of the wa stituted and put into action af

commentatory apoplexy.

Yout remember: little over two months ago. spoken Russian-born British sub-tical leaders of South East world and to governments, they Then Pe was grisonted by the up his bent giving

Indo- must have been very well known British Government in Burma or costre or

He was released by the

"Bender,uato C-in-C, sir, the The stake is no longer Korea.cct, who is Director of the Anti-Asin of Burma

Locust Research Organisation.

bul, LA

ardent found the no more

tolerable Wings' that are seizure." than the British. Th 1942 he took →→ bart in the first organisation of u resistance movement in Burm. Besing Red. and was sent by his colleagues to (American sailors are to be the British checked by the Coast Guard as

security

risks before leaving the prmy in India:**

To reach India he walked us.)

an ancient mariner through the jungle and over the It was an mountains he is a frail young went down to sail the sea,

"He was spoke by Which

Custoins blokke culosis In Delhi Twar man, who suffered from taber

About security, played as an adviser, by the

...

make contact with thus

·Though - their names are some: locusts will get through,

counter-measures.

Consider for example the career

Thakin Nu

askeu

of Asia themselves. There scientists who seek entry are hot in his life about which absolutely would be hard to imagine a more not very dramatic it

|istream of anti-American pro-. When he took over the Direc-Chi-minh worked as a walter in devout Buda u Galanybody

paganda from Peking Radio, which began with the "paper tiger" theme and moved on to a rather different appraisal, with the bombing as the keynote: But silence remained.:

South

un

the

Alin.

He heard the distant steamer Yutoot....

Impatient at the quay,

Now wherefore stoppest thou And quoth the ancient mariner,

The ancient ecot heard cach

shrill toot With growing misery, But the rtvenover queried on Into his history

What ports he knew and what

hl view

On Tsars and such_mìgh; bd, And then, they took that

sailorman

And gave him third degree.

They tried a lie detector out And truth drugs three by three, sketches, drow of each tattoomb bits might be

-Lest

the official man denied that the border the conference at Tours at whichditation in a monastery India, CHOKIN Delhi, the office bus hid nway, and, elsewhere

A

a novelist

He

so for effectively challenged and the Communists and... “khử fought Hurens.It Is Nu who perquaded Aung San to take Burma beyend In Hong Kong

being a Dominion with which After Borodin's fallin

fallure, Ho Chi-Aung San himself would have minh-lived for a time in Thailand bean-content-and to secede from From 1930 to 1933 he seem to Then there are the Indonesian

the Commonwealth. have been in Hong Kong, white lotiict. What was Ji in the ex-

arrested and imprisoned

manoeuvres ja post-war Burma

hovel of the age in South

It is nothing less than the which is sponsored by the British China or Malaya or Indonesia future of policy in the whole Colonial Ofice, ts now in Nairobi or the Philippines: Today a of the Far East, and in parti-the Middle East, India and Pakis-celebrities throughout the

to advise representatives from number of them have become By Windrush" cular the policy of China. itan bacombat measures

For many weeks after the

"The situations grave," he world. They are respected Korean Communists invaded told me, "Whatever we do now and honoured. ⚫

to the small circle of conspirators whid ruled the loft-whove the Southern Republic, Peking for they are breading in tremen- now well known there is still a

Since 1945, H0 Chi-minh has maintained a silence so com-dous numbers, and rapidly. £1,-great deal of ignorance about ment in Indo-Chim pléte one could hear the pro-1000,000 a year for three

years the personal histories. This is a dominated Vietminh; in spite of verbial pin drop. The only to me develop effective pity because one of the best ways periodical rumours that he was in

of understanding present affairs

followers und comment Chairman Mao Tse- Roughest areas in South East Asin is to study the culties with his forever. He

Though progress of the locusts fascinating personalities of the every time he has barich British Ministry of Information,

adventurous history and often tung made barely mentioned

has been careful to

After the begration of Burma, Korea at all, but referred

can be watched and miti-locust leaders who are now governing whether he was a Communist Thele became Secretary of the chiefly to President Truman's squads sent to strategic areas, the different countries or trying But his past history demonstrates Minister of Auriculture in 1940. Communist Party.. He became statement on June 27 with the insects have a habit at breed to overthrow the governments. where his allegiance lies,

Later he was

from the expelled regard to Formosa. Amering some of the roughest and

Communist Party because he dis- most inaccessible country in the of Ho Chi-mlah. He is certain- can interference in the affairs world. Mr. Stephenson said.

agreed with its 'bpposition ly the most formidable figure in "Partisular areas this time are South East Asia. One of the It would be a very good lung Thakin Nu But, after he had of Korea; the Philippines, Vietnam, and other coun- in parts of Arabia where while strange facts about him is the if somebody would produce for a time worked with Nu as un

the adviser, he was revealed as plo very little that le known about dictionary of biography of tries, lie said, was not just-men are forbidden to enter."

That "Forbidden Land" is one

him. Evon; his real name is in other major, leaders of South East ting against his chief. So he was 'fied, and the affairs of Asia of Mr. Stephenson's headaches, should be run by the peoples but slowly the Bedouin chiefs doubt. The date of his birth is Asta. There is Thakin Nu, the once more arrested

o much are beginning to realise that uncertain. There are long spaces prime minister of Burma. In this life

nothing is known.

different character from Ho of the history of modern Bl was, of course, a continuous after gold or olkus

could do Who J. Before the first world war, Ho Chi-minh.

main interest Its different scones

painted mob will have London like Mussolini at one is in religion.

Univer Calcutta railway targets at Linkiang. period. In 1914 at the beginiftag is hard to know why, of all modern history of Sunday was a very busy day of the first world war he tried to the Burmese leaders, it 13 Nur who, Rangoon and Cal

illes, the newspaper dered Aung San.

More than Rangoon, the junglo border of for the Allied aircraft, but an enlist in the British army, but has inherited the role of the mur

was rejected. American Air Force spokes- In 1019 Ho Chi-mith attended once No has tried to retire from fudla, and Burma.” In tho - wor

publle-life and to

pass his time h years, Communist conspiracy in the French Communist Party was had been violated. Be that as founded. Shortly afterwards he does not make the impression of the warpetáinistry A change began with the it may, it was quite obvious went to Moscow and resided there a resolute man; he is by: protes formintien also faDelhi, party definite turn in military for- from the tone and language of for two or three years. In 1920 slón a

vest and journalist. tunes after August 17 when the Note that Peking intend- he returned to the East and be Yet it is. Thakin Nu who has this would be a theme for the the Naklong River line wasted to make the most of it. In-came an assistant of Borodia in

the Soviet consulate ut Canton trestored and the bid for Pusandeed, it could hardly have failed. A day or two later been more ominous if the the Peking Foreign Ministry, twhole thing had been a mere which had shown as little pretext for predetermined in activity as is permitted to the tervention in Korea: satellites in Eastern Europe, The alleged etrafing and re- began a veritable spate of connaissance swore reported he was activity. First Mr. Chou En-in areas where large Chinesa for a ycat. From 1933 til 1942, pansive, the ther theatrical virtually nothing is known about Soekarno; and the reserved Hatta tai cabled the United Nations Communist forces are said to this movements. IN Wwitch imaker them-nited to ind formally proclaiming "the have been massed. From le reuppoured in Chine in 1942, the young-niqnalists of. Ingo- concern of the People's Gov- Tokyo came the suggestion ernment" in a Korean settle that the alleged attacks might anent, supporting the stand of the used as an excuse for M Maliks in the Security throwing these forces into the Council criticising theag Korean War Taipeh, going gression" of the United States, Imore than one botter, said and demandtag the right to these Chinese troops had be present, together with de crosted the Yalu into Korea legatus from North Korea alrendy last month" In fact, when the Council discussos If so, it took a long time to Korea. As a prerequisite for get wind of it! It is in fact la peaceful settlement, Manliköly that Chinese Com

Chod caled for d dessation of munist troops are in Korea; hostilities and the withdrawal | It was only a fortnight ago ofllon troops that Pelting sent on Ambassa Not chmielu further Note to dorito Pyongying: Anikan

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lat Bangson, AZ -WDE LCAught Imand for the unsealing withd - Build up for the new

in politics. bxbecoming president ABY WOLV Nationalistdeldfaldshif und i that is developin

of the Students Union. Theo Rome, Alltust 20 named five Peking delögatuit it would ho 4 clover move by

university Fanlons in the Eist Famished velves: tere Joday, waze all briginally to replace them. Tie other the Kremlire to persuade Pe- Note alleged that lifted Na- king,tol dond in Arbopantog reported to have attaccodes the Letons SiteCatGr tions altogaft had violated the Brison North Korea. It would Manchurian border with aled, he ghly Nörur Kören on Sunday and far-frontoida strated anisab1d at Whiting, Chintsỡ 400A at the mouth of the Xolutly towards the which marks the border, and islans to notorious.

and the Chungking Government nesland, whohlare the quali

hold, which he v¿possesses? 17 A allowing that he had become a tics which has given Sjöhrlic

wiple drentise on

KING FAROUK IN LE TOUQUET

-these questionar the answers could unlantens nothing else could the cireum- Le Touquch August 29.. King Farouk, who arived here stance of Indonesia In the past today from Deauville, will stay we dopadne treba je na

Asta,i-perhaps even at the Westminster, Le Touquets To understand the countries of most fashionable hotel, where lic South Ent has booked 27 Toome more to gained by studying the According to a member of his history, not of the leading RE- suite, King Farouk will stay in sonuliuce, but of the second-bank Le Touquet for three or four days poliglans, They are pulon elaser he likes the place, the to the actual people than are The King's personal apartinent those who reach a greater heiglit. comprises two sitting rooms and a/heilroom!

oung mon's history Take for example, thusdatory

100 wheep in the mountaijis nyür, bridge)

gain about, dh, mlles, kam pagbahn, Fe then theDuring the past few

? magia and a choreo orifanised a wolf-

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stray.

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