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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1951.

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THE LIGHT THAT FAILED ANDRE GIDE

by JOHN MATHER

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I HAD IN AN

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NATIONALISATION EXERCISE

London Express Bervios

8 MONTHS OF HELL

ITALIAN GAOL

Cedric Berrington

A large percentage of these prepare for nights of

men are

Prononood " Jeed.“

Waa A

ANDRE GIDE

classic example of an

There was nothing for it but intellectual who helped to carry on for Malta and boost international Com- leave Genon alone.

munism with the glory of

As we got on the way again his name and who then. I saw a large motor launch ap- helped shatter the illusion proaching us at fishy about them. And then one speed. Its crew

a very high with the bitterness of his were not Int day I was offered one

that any uniform-it could be a hi- experience. seemed perfectly straightfor- Jacker. bed, where you ward, a load of 720 casex of

He died in Paris on February American cigarettes for Mar- H-jacker or Customs, I want. 19 aged 31 and full of European. sellies and Malta.

ed nothing to do with them. honours, including the Nobel "Sunshine" pulled out of the Ignoring their signals to stop, Prize. Had he died at 66 his.

I stood out to sea. inner harbour and I waved

bier would have been claimed. goodbye to my wife and small

exclusively by the Comlatern. Almost Immediately the calling that I would sce launch opened son,

fire from Iwo

Glde visited the Belgian and them in three weeks.

machine-guns mounted forward. French Congo in 1924-seven

Ignored them. I was very

AM free after eight months in hell. I can sleep again in the. .dark after 230 blazing electric light. I am Some have waited for months.

still awaiting trial. must be by eight o'clock. finished with the eternal Some for years. Many seem Such le a day in Marassl click of the sly peophole quite resigned. Some are cheer- cover in the cell door. Once ful. A few can't take It. Per more I can cat good food haps you will hear one of these with a knife and fork. Can tonight. It is not a pleasant you imagine what such sound. little things can come mean?

to

On June 1, 1950, I was put into the prison at Marassi with my crew of eight and two pas- sengers, charged with attempt- ing to smuggle tobacco into Italy. I remained in that prison for eight months, sharing à 12ft. by BIL. cell with two of my STCW.

Come with me into one of the cells of this prison DI Marassi and take one of the the three co's there.

It is 3 ... and the rattle of keys and the click of bolts rouses you from uneasy slumber on your lumpy straw mattress. A guard walks in, examines the window bars, and exits. You go back to sleep again.

prison. If you are lucky enough-as I was to have some Italian currency to your credit in the prison office, you may buy extra food, cigarettes, and even wine to keep up your morale. But come along, your 90 I had my hungry crew minutes are up, and the guards

to

It was to-be the best part of angry. No ship except a British Fears after the Russian Revolu a year before we could look man-of-war had the right Lion-and his outrage at the forward to meeting again. to

stop me, much less to fire on me glow to his thoughts.

treatment of natives gave a Red It was a fine weather trip and, on the high seas. as far as the Balearics, unevant- up water in the gas oll.

ful except for trouble with us at about 30 knots, firing! Communist,

a

have opened the doors of the feed, and careful rationing was pens. The human herd drifts necessary, even. though raggedly back into the big quantity had been brought

Capt. Codric Berrington, of Liscard, Cheshire, schooner skipper and wartime RAF squadron load- er, was recently released from- Genoa's Marassi prison. Eight months ago ho was fired upon and arrested by Italian Customs men, and fined £137,000 on chargos of attempting to smugglo seven million cigarettes. He was acquitted by the appeal court, and here he tells exclusively his own story of eight months' fight for freedom.

stone building. The guards yell "Forza" ("quickly")," and soon the door slams behind you as you re-enter your cell.

Bul presently the narrow strip of sky which is all that can be seen of the outside world This is your home, where you begins to lighten. As the light must spend 22 hours of every grows the electric bulbs high 24, up on the cell wall snap off, Another prison day has begun. Your breakfast

for

with us from "Sunshine," ship, now lying descried moorings in the port.

my

me

proceed

to the launch opened fire.

By 1932 ho

The launch continued to circle

was a bookish But then he did bursis at the wheelhouse each the fatal thing. He went and time it passed. I ordered the w. And a second outrage We were off Minorca on May crew below except for my Ame- at the treatment of the Russian 22, and at midnight I received rican second mate,, and we took manses in Rusia-abruptly a radio message from Tangiers what cover we could each time changed his mind. ordering

to Genoa instead of Marseilles. thought little of the order af After 40 minutes of this the he spoke of the Russians' happi- the time, but the next day I after part of the ship was rid-ness"made up of hope, con- bogan to feel worried. My cargo died and it was obvious, that Odence-and ignorance." documents were for Marsellies sooner or later somebody was and Malta, and I had heard going to get hurt. much of Genoa as a smuggling rendezvous:

Finally I decided

Boarded

VERY reluctantly I rang "stop"

As the light faded in

In "Back from the USSR."

He went on: "In the U.S.S.R. everyone knows beforehand that on any and every subject there can be only one opinion. Every time you talk to one Russian you

the orders with Tangiers and this is where the bad luck on the engine room tele-feel as if you were talking to

at started, because my transmitter graph.

Six months earlier I had set eyes on "Sunshine" for the first time, in the port of Casablanca where I went from England after two years of postwar fly- ing with B.O.A.C.

them all."

And:

"There are too many

dynamo packed up after a few the western 'sky "Sunshine" was unsuccessful calls. I carried on slowed and stopped. The Italian at slow speed towards Genoa, launch drew alongside and is poor....it was not to see any telling my engineer to do his crew armed with sub-machine that I had come to the U.S.S.R." utmost to repair the dynamo. guns, leapt on to "Sunshine's"

deck.

No Lenin or Stalia Prizes for that book.

the

I was now definitely worried, At 3 o'clock your second and

and was determined not to-go They swarmed over the ship last meal of the day is poured

inside the 12-mile Customs limit shouting at us, and Jabbing their Gide began writing in 1891 and into your aluminium bowl. Bet- A week

or two later "Sun- which the Italians have Imposed machine-guns in our ribs. I produced eriticism, plays, trans-- ter save a scrap of your bread shine" was mine, and I started off the Ligurian coast without started shouting, loo-with rage|lations and even newspaper ABRUPTLY the service fiep in when your stomach starts rum. the Mediterrannveni

the night. You'll need it hauling assorted cargoes round first querying the orders from but they bundled my crew editorials as well as novels. His the

Based opens, and you bling and crying out for the Tanglers, a convenient harbour

and myself into their launch. pure, cool style, used as a on Tangiers,

But only for a few minutes; the into morality and m are served with two tablespoon food of men.

for fuls of muddy coffee,

both sides, we carried car We sighted Genoa during the officer in charge shoved me back Arst shocked the French

made of May 25 and on to my launch again and de-and later

hima That is your breakfast. You

goes to Lisbon and Casablanca late afternoon Soon after you have emptied. as and your cell-mates clean up away your minestrone unless Mediterranean, ports. Tea,

well ng to the various motored slowly parallel with the manded to see the ship's papers, acknowledged Grand Old Man

of French literature. the cell,

as coast, about 14 There is a slab of you have been strong-stomached phait, petit-bols and other odds

the efforts of the engineer to ́d produce them, and really let stone protruding from one wall, enough to eat it you are visited and ends formed the general repair the radio were unavail- him have it about what I His Nobel Prizo la 1947 was with a smaller slab beside 1. again by a bar-using guard, run of cargoes.

ing. Due south of Geass I thought of the whole incident. awarded for extensive and These are your table and your and then there is nothing to do

stopped the ship while the He shut me up and told me to artistically important authorship,. until the daylight fades, the Cigarette cargoes I refused, engineer made a last desperate pave anything I had to say until in which he has exposed the light snaps on again, and you There was usually something effort, which was of no avail.

we reached Genoa.

problems and conditiona of I realised they were trying truth and psychological percep

mankind with fearless love of

to accuse me of smuggling.

tion."

chair.

The service flap opens again | and six small loaves are thrust in, two for each of you,

The rattle of keys, the door opens, and the guard, armed with a short rod of iron, enters.

Don't be alarmed. He's not going to beat you up. He rat- tles the rod up and down and across the window bars to satisfy himself that you haven't sawn through them since 3 a.m.

Shortly after this comes the first meal of the day, at 11 a.m.| It is minestrone, a vegetable soup of sorts, and the smell

is not appetising. Bat don't

HOW TO SERVE

A

by

George

Marriner

GOOD corkscrew is a Most of them rarity.

milles off. All

the WINE

air space but discourages dust and other foreign bodies.

VERY FEW wines except vintage port need loose decanting. Any deposit in burgundy or claret will settle before

Such wines should be stood as far away from a fire as will give them about that temperature.

WHITE WINE can be quite sickly if it is not cool enough. The right degree of coolness brings out all its cleanness,

build your hopes on the second are too narrow, too smooth, meal of the day, which will be or too short. They can cope Just the same except that it with a foolproof cork, but an hour. Careful pouring does character and charm, but ex- may smell a little worse,

brittle

the bottle has stood upright for

are apt to pull out of a the rest. And all your other meals of soft, perished or all your other days will be just the same. Hunger forces you

one:

to cal a little with the wooden The best corkscrews are wide spoon, which is your one and in the spiral with a grooved or only implement. But soon the

the fattened screw. They thus get greater part goes down lavatory, placed near the head grip on the cork

of the third cot. You gnaw one. A corkscrew must pierce the of your leaves.

With murderers

full length of the cork. Other- wise it will probably break of the cork just where its point has reached. Always sneli n TOW the door is swung wide drawn cork. If it seems Un- open and voice yells pleasant, the wine is likely to be |"arcal" You, go to exercise, Nar- the same.

NOW

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row pens each hold fifteen or With champagne and other

more men.

ayton try to twist the cork out of the

cessive icing will kill it alone dead. Replace a half-emptied-bottle very gently on the table. To- Heavy sweet wines will often wards the last glass, watch for stand more cooling than lighter,

neck of the bottle. As soon as any deposit approaching the more delicate ones.

it appears stop pouring. Most

I would take 50 deg. F. an young and everyday wines can point from which to work for be poured to the last drop. the majority of white wines. Ice should be applied to the neck for pouring. Hold

Nover hold a bottle by the bottle, never to the wine, but ittle below its middle.

ita if no cooling devices are handy, You wrap the bottle in a cloth soak- have better control that way. ed in cold water and stand it

In a draught,

But what about temperaturo? You often read that red wine

Glasses should be thin and

should be served at room tem- also of ample size. A wine has

little wines which do not need a cork porature and white wine a

to breathe out its aroma ft is not more than If you are really lucky you screw a frequent mistake is to below that. This is meaningless. ore room

It entirely depends on the may have Za fow

two-thirds up the glass.

You hear it said of wines that in your particular pen, and then bottle. On the contrary, always wine. Beaujolais and other light,

able turn the bottle round the cork. when quite cool (say 60 deg. F), they have been

fresh rod wines will perhaps be voi

are enjoyable they will not keep when once opened. But should be but 60 deg F. is not too much if you have some left in a boitle Most still wlues opened at least an hour before for some ordinary wines which you can safely cork it up and the meal,

may be quite sound but are keep it for next day. If it will They are a mixed bunch, ex-

rather young and rough.

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Lay the cork horizontally

The

warmth softens their or two then it must have been pockets (there are many of across

the top of the bottle asperity and brings out any good undrinkable from the start. these) and so on.

while it is standing. This gives` points,

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