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DIAMOND VIC GOES TO IT WITH A SONG

From WILFRED POTTER

He

GEORGETOWN. on that scrap of dirty paper.

carried it for years, never letting

M here to collect

fortune in diamonds,"

It out of his hands.

Then

was the simple, straight joined

CAMU

the

the war

He Merchant Navy

forward statement of inten. Destiny moved the pieces a little Gors made by busky, ax- closer on the strange chessboard of life As R stoker in d Marine Commando Victor merchantman he met Vic Nor- Norwood when he arrived wood, gunner on the same ship.

here.

They became friends.

Jught away he got down to danning details of a one-mad expedition into British Gulno uch

charted hinterland. 11 01. expedition based on a story which has all the romance of Robert Louis Stevenson novel

Singer,

author, amateur wrestler, Victor Norwood- he tinės Om Scunthorpe,

"One day." Norwood told me,

¿ "a German submarine torpedoed Our ship In the mind frenzy that followed the explosion my stoker friend was wounded Be sand to me Lister. Vic, take the It I want yo to have it.

Misc. and

coinshire -- has ястаре: and inap saved every penny he has earned cost my add nan

in the past six your to reach I'm sure there's a fortune for the here, He has but

follow il and

down the man who cal 10 deposit for immigrants, and fathom its secrel Then he died is all set to secs untold riches

in my s

In his pockel is a 23-year-old Though he has set out on his

Mit:

"It is the key to what I believe Is the Empire's most fabulous diamond mine, he told

e triumphantly

But to go back in the story of this map and how it cane inde Vich Norwood's possession Scrawled untidily on Pince yelloway paptı. F1: Jbny prajem; back to 3928, when 0473621- Walar d Buth Filter d Varre.

the peread

colony's savage interven in worth of the glittering stones

Every jew cotonal damond- seekers tos their lives into the lunce against the grim Jungle wch Ce:ends British Guiana's luse. Many mineral wealth. Some

al.ve. Of these, one was La Varre, who lived to

novel publish a called "Jungle Treasure.

انان

But when he wrote his book he didn't know that negro guide had stumbled on the secret

ewn, the one-man expedition promeres to be increased in the near future The ex-Commando will well in Georgetown Luton bus-driver Jack Minns,

his Junior.

fer

Meanwhile, Victor Norwood whose wife Shizabeth and 11- year-old son Bussell are staying :n Scunthorpe. plans to raise nice funds for the expending bis giving tenor revitals here.

A

v sat de ndventurer ! evet there was one

Not content with his effort at money-raising he will put the finishing touches te novels one entitled "Adventure The he Into The Unknown " hopes, will help to swell the ex- pedition's funds

"I what happens to all my grinned heroes happens to me. Norwood, be finished."

Not so long ago a lone wolt found a 30 cars!

uf fabulous diamond deposits, prospector

and hadn't told his boss. The diamond worth £3,200. guide scratched out a rough map the U.S. Econoraic Aid Co-opers-

Taruma Falls, ton Administration of the perilous

Dutch

nvar (Surinam)

the

Gulans to pump

La border

into Varre dollars and

Jeft British Gulanu,

B

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1951.

HOME GUARD

'A few night-guard duties in Squire's woods'll help the meat ration-Halt, who goes

there?'

THE

No answer. Bang! And down comes a pheasant."

THREE WORDS SUM UP THE BEWILDERED AND ANXIOUS FEELING IN AMERICA TODAY

MASSACRE

NEW YORK.

ACK in 1942. America awoke one morning to read the horrible story of the "Death March of Rataan."

As

of

MOOD

Lendon Express Servic

Massacre

news may hit talks

(ASHINGTON Wednesday

headquarters fül kören toĐA of the news that the Com munists have murdered 5.563 American prisoners has caused consternation In Washington.

The total murdered is 12,790 United Nations soldiers--inctub Ing ten Briton" record for klilings and barberiam uniqu even in the Commnumst world."

in the President have authorised since the start of the

the announcement just now?

is now failings, says the favour of using A-weapons on the battlefield.

the realisation this And

sombre event sank home-the has begun

contemptuous slaughter by the £47,500 worth

of Japanese of helpless men, cap. Others, not so restrained, back this diamond-

fured after an heroic defence the use of the bomb on a wider The money be bearing territory.

of America's last toe-hold on scale. In commercial repayable

double- Philippines-- stock-the for strategic diamonds

barrelled wave of emotion ash- piling

Norwood's expedition is ed across the nation. and successful, my guess is that will be seeing up the British Guiana

left behind the precious secret is he had overlooked.

Years later destiny caught up with

Bartica the guide. In rough-and-tough wining mining town 80 miles

River Demerara, he got mixed such a diamond about as has not up in a fierce ber-room brawl. been witnessed since the mad Knives flushed and the mon died scramble of 1928. But for Nor- lived-giving no wood it will merely be something he quarter and asking none.

And the map?

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war.

was

Korean

it which

Some of the killings bad NOW that the thing is out, already been

reported-but what can be the effect on the

the Hanley total UN meeting in Paris and the staggered everyone. talks in Koren?

Cool heads will probably prevail over hot ones, as far as There is one answer among the ultimate weapon is com Nor are these statements all the questions on which cerned. But a bitter, rousef (which are often, so far as

mere everyone is 100 percent agreed: America demands that action of is concerned, Congress gestures, intended to be quick dim, as was Red China's chance come sort come quickly.

forgotten) unbasked by of getting a seat in UNO before |

public opinion this happened, that chance has

Sorrow and grief-yes.

also a furious determination to exact full retribution.

But

y

in this ja- stance.

now utterly and irretrievably,

slaughte

the

Reds sho

R. M. MacCOLL

The other night I listened to he "just knew by instinct"-- the comments of my American

on the It was kept Something he has known for triends

by man who years Jacked the capital to follow up swirling

by his son, a young

the vital information contained streams.

existed in

the dark, of

waters

of the jungle

A college label

-on easy terms

in

prisoners

heard I Korea;

radio commentators, saw the big

it is possi-

so far as America is concerned.

ble that Con- gone. gressmen may Bnd quickly themselves mail and tele- clamouring thet "the

black headlines on the front reluged with pages, and caught the general grams

And I am time is now."

mood of the people. reminded at every turn of the Bataan "Death March" days.

Same Shock

Another Question

And there is another question, in all the welter of emotion and has already been Behind the natural shock and anger, that horror of the man-in-the-street, swered byrke man who start- and behind the deep sympathy ed it all himself.

for those thousands of arents who have lost their this barbarous way. many questions are being asked.

felt

There is the same shoek--and cons

by TREVOR EVANS Does that mean America

beller educated

than Brilsin? the same desire for revenge as Do Hollywood flims showing Not necessarily. Team leader Drot, strong, and swift as possi-

nearly every boy and girl Percy

Dunsheath 01

London

ble.

90 grave

Good-Looking clean-shaven Colonel James Hanley, chief War Crimes section of the Eigh.h Army, says he decided of the

At the top of the list:-

ahead and divulge the to go massacres because he thought President

WHY was an announcement that the G.Ls at the front "ought in Key West, the you an University, and his colicagues college give

of going to

#nature-und to know just what kind of en inferior y domplex

about have drawn up a table to show ells a news conference that this

massacre if proved equivalent levels of education.

tries such far-reaching Implications enemy they are up against." British education?

the Half

It shows that a senior gram- the most uncivilised thing that Well forget it.

either Washington cr, even more youngsters who go to American mai schoolboy in Britain equals has happened in the last century. maze without the knowledge of colleges pack up before they a US college undergraduate,

National

In Congress there is an im- strange, of General Ridgway's Certificate in Higher take their degrees-usually in

Britain equivalent Bri.ish

to an medrate outory for atomic wea- Tokyo H.Q.7 the Arst year.

15 British American B.Sc.; and a

pons to be used. Senator Taft, This shocked the

who

have gone B.Sc. is roughly educationists

the United States an American Master of Science. home from

But America treats its brains after comparing the tie-up be-

US universities get tween universitles and industry better, in the two countries.

'EXTRAVAGANT'

In Britain, they say in their report, such a waste of training would be regarded as "extrava- gant and educationally undesir- able"

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equivalent

€ 30,000,000 year in grants from the Government and in-

research. British dustry to carry on scientific and engineering universities get only £1,500,000. FAT FEES

American

Even the research professors

Hanley maintains that he was notified early in November that the swry could be released.

He compiled his figures by who is an honest and respon-IF Washington had been ad- carefuly totalling all the reports vised ahead of time, would and estimates, of Red atrocities sible man, whatever bis

other

It may aim to prod Communists in the peace talks on Korea.........

ΟΝΕ

NE of the more thoughtful "Maybe to prod the Commu- fuel for the 'Drop the atom

comments on an explosive nists universities get

on the peace talks in bomb right away' campaign.

"It should surprise no one contracts from situa.len comes from Max Lem-

Korea. Maybe to stiffen both that their first response to the Not so in America. It gives a huge research

or woman quite a private industry. Their gra er, chief columnist in the Left- young man

the war front and the home inhumanity of the massacre of lift in later life to have been to duates are given top industrial wing New York Post.

front morale in the Forgotten prisoners was- to call for the in college at all. It is rather like administrative jobs.

He says: "I know atrocity the American love of a middle

War. Maybe to show up the inhuman ultimate weapon, much a matter get fat fees from industry, which charges have to be examined initial; this is 80

FOOTNOTE: As an instance income level of prise that Harry S. Truman put them on an

the final hollowness of the claim of the carefully. But until

atross that of the anguish aroused Governmenta It doesn't with big business executives. invented the "S".

There the report pinpoints judgment is in, it's hard not to Communist stand for anything.

and the country, the Pentagon an- arc 'peace-loving educational believe their basic truth, and to they Plenty of children do get de Britain's weakest

while we're Louneed that it has received and America has 1,294 link: The American with acade be shocked and sickened at this humanitarian, grees,

Telephone calls of man's in described as 'ruthless.*** institutions to confer them-at mie brilliance gets the sort of test instance

and telegraphic. inquiries from the rate of about half a million wage that makes it worth while humanity to man.

And Lerner warns against the families of missing Service- #year..

In Britain, for example, you "Why the figures waited have to be quite a good atom long or why they happened to some of the hysterical men in men that an emergency depat- * Univeralti

By this particular Congress and the Press, who ment has had to be set up to Anglo-Amerison Council on Produc adientist to earn a bank clerk's be released

have been waiting for just this handle them. wage.

moment, is anyone's guess, tivity, 2s. 6d.

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MOM!

WHY DID YOU

YELL MOM WHEN THAT GIRL.

PASSED?

DON'T LET ON TO

NANCY---

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