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OBITUARY

WHITTAKER, Alfred, loving hus- band of Eather Whittaker and father of Mrs. Edna Thomson, aged 77 years, passed away at St. Teresa's Hospital, Kow- toon, on 2nd of September 1950. Funeral will take place ut 5 p.m. on Monday, th September, at the Colonial Cemetery, Happy Valley.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1960.

THEY RISK DEATH TO TELL ABOUT LIFE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

Safety first --or last

By Antony Terry

swered, 'Why don't you' look In the shops if you believe that sort of nonsense ?"

To prison

Good Mornin

Unfair to Reda

Korcan tank commanders front complain that from the these new super-bazooka operators look just like Press photographers.,

•

a

Malan's Nationalists won the South African elections in landslide.

Bit of a boer, all the same,

•

A quiet-spoken, grey-haired¡ It also tells the Germans Ilving! woman' who sits in a busy what is really going on inside behind the Iron Curtain just office in Berlin's best-known their own country-facts

"They also fired questions at which us which I was not able to an radio station knows more the East Zone Government's Pro-swer, such as why, all the Ger- about what is happening on paganda Minister, Gerhart Elsler, man, prisoners of war had not

is careful to suppress.

been returned and why we had a Most of the information comes By A. V. SELLWOOD the other side of Germany's

"Iron Curtain" than many; in through the office of Frau secret police.

Much 'useful Information about Of the thousands of people who Allied political advisers. Stein. It is brought by Germans happenings Inside the Iron Cur die in accidents each year, many!

who risk long terms of imprison-tain comes through the le take "safety precautions with- Forly-five-year-old Frau Steinment and even death.

Four, robbers 13ated a Chinese out' understanding them or are in the woman to whom thousands Scores of blue-shirted Commu- office in the radio building Rus-

activities, herbalist's shop, victims of common' errors about of men and women from the nist-led youths are among the sian troop movements. what is safe and what is not.

visitors to Frau of Soviet agents and Communist

If they're caught they will stif) Soviet Zone tell their troubles hundreds and their strange stories of what Stein's office. They take time off leaders, the reaction of the public have to take their medicine." life is like across the invisible from slogan-chanting and parad- to Communist tactles are reported boundary which lies only a mile ing to ell true-life tales of how by the hundreds of young people

drilled, put through in-news.despite the risk

who volunteer to bring in the And half away across the heart of they

tensive totalitarian-type political Berlin.

indoctrination courses und sent into West Berlin to chant slogans and start political arguments with the West Berliners.

A "careful" camper built his fire on a pile of flints, so that, he *explained, "it

"it wouldn't spread to the underw»

Now he

the w he will be blind for rest of his life. For flints break] nnd By upwards in the heat-and the comper's eyes were hit,

Don't kid yourself that it is always a good thing to tackle a Are with an extinguisher. Mr. X a careful householder, thought he was very wise; in his hall there was an efficient fire extinguishier,

Wrong type

But one night a fire broke out In his lounge. Mr. X closed doors and windows to prevent any draught from fanning the flames. Then he went in with the extin- guisher.

Frau Stein works in "Rias," the Allies' answer to the powerful Soviet-controlled Berlin transmit-

ler

of

Arguments

Recent events have proved how great the risk is.

·

"Some men never see the ac during an ocean crufad♫

Jonah didn't.

•

Dozens of young Germans from the Soviet Zone who broadcast Realpe for succéss. anonymously in a recent "Brains

"The deputies were given trust"

programme answering positive proof that the outlawed is still The Russian station situated, paradoxically, in

questions about life in the West Communist Party is prepuring a the middle of the British sector,

were tracked down by the Soviet up." To answer it, Rias, three miles away

they arrived home. Zone police and arrested when Tried before in the American sector, has been

a Communist court. they were It doesn't room clear whether" stepped up from a tiny one-kilo-

sentenced for "sabotage and spy- this new food production scheme tranamiliter years ago to wait output

The average sentence was was station with a 180

Ing".

originated by Boyd' OrT kilowatt output which

can be

twenty-five years Imprisonment, somebody else. beard all over the Soviet Zone of

Their average age was twenty. Germany, and in large parts of Czechoslovakia and Poland.

four

It even gets a fan mali of is- tenors in Britain.

Young visitors

Soon the fire was out, and the story would have ended, there if Mr. X had not decided to en- sure that the papers in his bureau! had come through unscathed.

The extinguisher

Rias task is to get across to .set up 3 chemical reaction that produce the 18,000,000 Germans living in the Soviet Zone what life is like poison gas, 'and, as doors and windows were Ughtly shut, Mr. outside, and is refute some of the x was suifoented. You see, this lies told about Britain, America particular extinguisher

and other Western countries by the Communist-controlled pro- tended for open air use.

So the moral is: do not buy paganda machine. having expert advice. Are-fighting equipment without

Less lethal

was in-

habit is to keep their foot on Motorists' most popular "safety"

the brake when going downh[11, Yet brakes heat up on the down- bill run, lose their grip-and the car may charge blindly on. It's quite simple, say the experts, to change into a lower gear, and for less lethal,

and American sectors.

think the

Magdeburg described his expe- One 19-year-old youth from rience thus:

"I was selected as suitable member of the 'agit-troop which was to cross over into West Ber- lin and try to start arguments among the people of the Britisin "Our total group numbered 25, and we crossed the line with aj West Berlin, Communist from

Sitting on the hard stone ben- who knows his way about. One ches in the corridor this week, for SCC Frau across we split up into six groups instance, waiting to

sisters were of about four agitators oplece,| Stein,,

wo and as soon as we saw there were seventen and rilneteen.

started no police in sight wo

They wanted to give informa- chanting our slogans.

tion about attempts to intimidate of "Soon a crowd Berliners students in Communist-run un!- the Soviet Zone. collected and we started telling versities in them about how good life was in Often what such people report don't like about the Soviet Zone. We did not make forms the basis of a, radio pro-husbands" much progress, because they an-gramme directed to the Soviet

Zone inhabitants.

After that the broadcasts were

Tire UN. troops. stopped as being too dangerous. But the Information continues to Communists in Korea should be came in.

hanged higher than Haman..

Beyond the dreams of Livingstone

Roundabout

aged

A BIGGER AND BETTER ARMY The measures to expand and improve the efficiency of the British. Army and the de- cision to increase the pay, have been widely welcomed. The only critical note is that these things ought to have been done before. As usual we had to wait till the sharp and salutary shock from Korea drove the Government to action. The extension of military service to two years will add to the forces within the next six months some 77,- 000 men-55,000 for the Army, 18,000 for

the RAF and 4,000 for the Navy. These men, moreover, have already received a sound training which bas increased their military value beyond mere numbers. The loss to indus- Itrial man power is not large if the entire field is taken into consideration. Many of the men, too, will go to industry later better equipped by in- creased experience as trades. I proof" ladders slip dangerously on, tale words to describe a Comet! motor-car have in turn speeded of Communist informers. For a

off. from the £1,000,000 up the development of your Unless you know the full drm/ airport seven miles North of the Dark Continent.' Now comes air- would be enough to bring a squad

men.

Driving mirrors, too, can be fatal. Many motorists, glancing

By Cecil Hartley

Within a century of their

*

Green apples and boyя'

Have an omnity

The same 'vicinity..

Whenever they'in in

Myrtle anys: "What

wonien

me

is their

Wrong pattern.

Throo Chinese textile students are. leaving America on account

•

Warped and woofed too much.

•

"I get wonderful recipes from

the radio," gushed the bride as

Another example was an ear-uf Communist-linged utterances. nest young university professor from a town in the Soviet Zone who brought a request for non- Communist textbooks for "pri- vate study" among his pupils.

Fray Stein arranged with him her husband started his dinner. an elaborate code for communi- "Today I got one for Egyptian-

involving

one fur A never-fail cating with her,

a stew and series of letters addressed care of stain remover."

"Which is this?" Inquired her post offices in the Soviet Zone,

husband. am helping to under various fictitious names. 'Thomas: "I

The books the young man into one before opening the off-discovery by David Livingstone make your dreams come true."" side door, sce a clear rond-and in 1855, the mile-wide Victoria}. Livingstone: "What dreams?" wanted were to be sent the same

Hissed the foreign spy in "of Thomas: forget that there is often a 15- Falls-Africa's greatest natural Africa, None knowe better than kind of information

up way. After being briefed on the opening.

wanted he London to his confoderate: yard blind patch not shown in the spectacle will be rivalled by mirror.

you that the speed of trans- lclt, to cross unobserved into the "Let's make out we're Englisht, De jet-propelled Many people have been killed, Comets using the great new

Curtain "frontier" twenty minu- too, because they bellove that)

development. rubber gloves made them immune airport here.

Livingstone: "Agreed. Most of tes later. my journeys were painfully slow, from H.T. electric current, white Natives, fearing the Falls With some swifter means safe to tinker with fint electric evidence of the supernatural, told transportation I could have ac-

Livingstone: "Mosi ол light bulb just because the wall

tunya" complished so much more." docs sound and switch is "on" has also cost lives. tomorrow's natives may well use war, the locmotive, and the

"Exactly. And remember that

"alip- similar

the bellef that it is, ALWAYS

a greasy surface.

thoroughly—and not just half of it-It can be fatal to be "safe".

Civil

·

Havilland portation governs the pace of Soviet sector across Berlin's Iron Let's stand in a queue,"

craft,"

day,"

In fear Anxiously the young visitors waiting to see Frau Stein eva. outside her room. They are afraid in the long, corridor

whisper that they had been here

they run some of them are sur-

Falis, which Britain's Minister of The growth of the first-line

Aviation, Lord Pakenham,

of armed, jack-booted Communist Livingstone, Aircraft?"

police to their homes carly next fighting strength is the

hus officially opened recently. Thomas: "Yes. These meetrani, morning. And the next stop primary consideration, and

Sir Miles Thomas, chairman of cal birds you see roaring over- would be an East German 'prison this outweighs the fact that Longer training and far British Overseas Airways Cor-head. That one--the Hermes IV. from which they would never

poration,-who-came-to-Northern-will-arry 40-passengers from escape. the reserve forces will suffer greater technical skill are re- Rhodesia for the official opening. Victoria Falls to London in little In view of the appalling risk momentarily from the change. quired. The modern soldier told me today: "Livingstone Alr more than a dancredible! Why prisingly casual, And it is the

has to be not only a Jack of port will fit in well with the Livingstone: all trades; he has to be master pattern of air travel developing on my first visit to Africa in 1840 casual ones who sometimes do

return. For As a result of the new types of the sea voyage alone took nearly not

the police of them too. On the other planes which are going into ser- 100 days. But what's this greu machine of the Soviet Zone Is band, the choice is no longer vice.

roadway i see in the middle of becoming more Melent every the scelor bolween the bush! It seems to lead no- day, and its spies are everywhere, That is why Frau Steln warna them all "Be careful-don't take risks! We need the information you can bring, but we need you

resistance

still organisers more.”

Despite her warning, a dozen of these idealistic young people Yet end up in jail every week. always there seem to be dozens more to take their place and line "Come quickly, comrade, I think the cold stone seats outside Frau we're in American water now!*

limited to the land and the Livingstone and Johannesburg is where.

"Idrally. Services. Industry is the most a little too short, but the econo- Thomas: "It leads everywhere. voracious of all in its demands mics aren't such that they would It is the largest airport in for manpower, and it hasn't cause un inter-Continental air- Africa."

to fly over Livingstone if

Livingstone: You

yet transformed the crafts- graft

there's A worthwhile pick-up were helping to make my dreams

man and his natural pride into load. the automaton serving the as- sembly line.

Of one thing we may be

1

Chance for Comet

said you as

come true, but this is something

couldn't foresee." Thomas: "Perhaps so, but your great journeys, by focusing work

on Africa, were the we DOAC starting point from which

The reduction of Reserve ser- vice by the six months reten- tion in the first line will not make much difference to the Reserve forces, anyway, be- cause long before it affects! them the number of men available will be ample for their needs. The real neces- sity is to build up the regular professional army to such an extent that conscription could be cut again and eventually abolished. Many would like it done at once. But it would is nothing seriously Wrong Introducing from the first week have advanced so far." be too risky until the in- with the spirit of the British of November, the existence of creased pay shows results. people when it comes to a Livingstone Aerodrome brings the two Rhodeslas within 27 "bours Some Home papers refer to fight. It is a quality, whose of London Airport. We shall run the financial provisions for in- enduring nature is one of the three services weekly, via Leo - creased pay, improved oppor- great buttresses of our for- poldville, Kono, and Tripoll.

"Livingstone also provides art tunities for advancement, and tunes. Our forefathers long epportunity for Central Africa to bounties for re-enlistment as ago were about the rudest and be serviced by the Comet. The "bold and striking." What crudest that ever lived, and route is not yet finally decked. is needed above all is an in- the blood-cells have not yet The opening of Livingstone planning a new "squeeze" un

welcomed too by the Berlin Airport Is crease in the operational become anaemic. If Britain Royal Air Force, whose training efficiency of the forces. Far and the United States can group in Southern Rhodesia 19 Using trumped up chatges of too many of the non-commis-gain military strength with the sole survivor of the war-smuggling" as their excuse for sioned officers have been sufficient speed, there may be time chain of Empire" Air Train being awkward, the drifting away from the Army. no need after all for another means that the four-engined RAF

Scheme establishments. I have ing

recently begun breaking the sealc The old NCO was always re- terrible global war.

mall trucks open garded, and rightly, as the Meanwhile it is a source of Britain can now deliver urgently carrying post from Berlin to the

West. In one weck, writes por backbone of the Army, and he pride and gratification that needed equipment, such as en respondent Antony Terry. Com-

gines and wireless apparatus, kaj made it his life's career. Quite troops from the British Isles one week where formerly delivery munist German police confiscated

parcels 1,000 a lot of them have left because were the first land forces of took up to five months.

either stole the contents or

or hand- of better pay and prospects in the United Nations to go the

ed them over to the Communist- civil, life. The new scales go support of the Americans and

controlled stores for sale to the Germans In the Soviet zone.

pretty certain still, that there Hermes type, which

"For an seroplane of the attention

Transport Command alreraft from

a long way toward equalising the Korean Republic. And..

An open path"

If David Livingstone could have

New Berlin "squeeze?"

Allied officinis in Germany believe that the Russians are

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Service and elvillan standards. the British have been the first heard the Bishop of Nordliers chocolates

Hundreds of parcels containing Whether, the flow of men to also to follow, the United Rhodesia blessing. the airport vanished at the Marlenborn the Services will be as fast States in a programme of ex bearing his name, hiu tyes would checkpoint where all trains have and voluminous as is required pansion of the forces. Our have fitted with joyful tears, for to stop before crossing the Iron

there 430 level acres symbolise Curtain border remains to be seen, but a bold | most powerful ally on the the fullment of his dreams.

the British into

is preparing plans to the same graduates th 1667 Livingston the Russians hint that in, view The professional soldier isend. It is confidently expect-

the smugging they may have | et I direct your attention to needed now more than ever ed that she will form another Africa. I know, that in a fow to impose an open blockade on

oli.Berlin's postal-trame. before. Masses of men cannot 15 Divisions and for that pur-years I shall be cut off in that

the Russians accuse the be done away with, because pose may also extend the cot it be shut ngein. I go back Western powers of being the

country which is now open. Don't run the war is now waged on so vast period of military service to to Africa to try to make the smugglers...So far, however,

trouble-makers by

by supporting a "scale.. On the other hand 18 months. These develop. path for commerce and Chris- there is an intense complexity ments are hard so soon after antly. Do your carry out the only applies to the German postal threat to impose a blockadé My and diversity about modern the tremendous effort of the work I have begun."

Suppose. Dr. David Livingstone,rvices, for all British mail goes arms and modern war that last world war, but the new 10th-century, mlistenary and exby official channel: Neverthe places efficiency as high in the burdens will be accepted plorer, could meet Ble Miles loss, the Allied are prepared for extending their scale as ever, and certainly cheerfully enough, because Thomas 2017-century chairman the tusalans

of. BOAC, at Victoria Falla on "investigations. If they cannot far higher than th the old days tho need is now no clearly saturday. Conversation might cause i gumelente inconvenience at the turn of the century, seen."

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