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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1951.

GWYN LEWIS investigates

RIDDLE OF THE BATTLESHIP SWALLOWED BY 'THE CRUEL SEA Eight men and the Sao Paulo vanished

33 days ago in an Atlantic hurricane

W

HERE is the battle- ship Sao Paulo and the eight adventurers longing her across the trous heros Atlantic? Still helplessly 4. Orsak without trace" Hwan kegland and Portugal the L-1 ten to see her: the men who for the first time can tell the story of the vast steel with the eight figures chested on a bridge which Manbod days ago,

il 1. pew of the ara! Dextareas Lug whese per it was to bring the 1:200 ton hath of the Sao Paulo Bom a max yard in Brazil to a scrap yard on the Clyde.

THREE-NATION SEARCH

qual story only deepens the

mystery of the Sau Paulo. Because every man jack of them convinced that the battleship Ye nobody has seen Cathed her, through planes from three patiems have secured 150,000 spare miles of the Atlantic "The cruel sea" of Nicholas Montreal's best-selling novel.

The experts the men who Kavos bo sritain built ships in in days when the Sao Paulo's 40 Jaid more than Years ago say that she would Lever sink.

Papurasce at the sei

that her dis- is one more riddle

But what happened when the Low- venes parted, 150 miles north of the Azores, just as darkness gathered and a 75-miles per hour burricane night of November roared on that

4 Take

At Lisbon: Whe'r the bag Bustler

refuelling, he

i: FANIK

at the

"was on the bridge. The battle

aud disappeared appeared ship

mountainous waves rad of the 1,800ft, towlanes drawing can we could see the eight men standing to her bridge

"Suddenly my ship and Dexterous a the towlines Larched forward

"New and again through the

: oupped. The howing of the wind megaphone made it impossible to any message to the men the Sao Paul,

They waved burk waved

1 carried co Then they were gone.

are until November 19"

Dexterous From the other fug

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THE CREWMAN'S STORY

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We Feft Rio de Janeiro

We had only another September 19

1,300 miles to go when we ran alo

weather. We could avoid

the storm

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venture.

The men had two nonths food But ther when the voyage began.

world where they cannel teli the

The battleship has no radio

William:

Paater's ate William Adams, 25, who lived at the Painter home; John Mosseau, 29. of St. John's Newfoundland; John Fliis, 28. of Lachine, Montreal; Charles Tate, of William-streci. Ely Thomas McCormick, of New- wnards. Co Down; a man named Kennedy, who believeri tu

Paulo al In de Haned the Sa

wher The S a ku Glasgow, and an unnamed English boy who also joined the ship at tho last minute

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But in every saga of the sea luck plays a part. There was

IN

THE MAN WHO

ESCAPED

IN STEPNEY, E Mr E. Devos, a South African, told this story:- the battleship "I was on board

of the ropes casting of when one

tiss

suddenly whipped up from qayith and wragad itself round my body knocking me over. That took me off the

The awkward, crab-like progress of the battleship didn't help Sue still had be engines, quite uscitas of yourse, and her gun and turrets That Buade her a heavy low.

Our 12-hour struggle against the 11 thu weather began about

diss During morning heaviest rain ve bloiting out the battleship.

-There was a wall of spray be

Some of the waves nesi tween us. Juve been 70 feet high

Paulo kept Shacer The Sa round so that we were tuwing br

Du spel o goal balf a knot less tha: a mul

Tour.

the

ung ever set kept

The terrifying squall hit us. Tar tugs were only 20 icet apart

narkin dangerously narrow when the lines snapped. And Sao Paulo vanished."

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uneasy about some port huten tiral

bented up

been

The Sao Paulo was to all intents and pur- puses rutierfess It was

Trai ship with no

for recrea = | provisions Lon lo: the affiuty We had two life-

men. bout

Blast

by a large number of

Венд 1 Well, that was the last

The lugs searched the Sao Paulo

they 1 worsening weather usti

forced to give up. And so wire we come to-

THE EIGHT ADVENTURERS

Supper, Cap-A BOARD the Sao Paulo are Wil-

tom Atom, from Helensburgh, gave

this account.--

THE TOW-ROPE

THAT SNAPPED

NUFFIELD and LORD

-friendly fighters

sales mendous

PE

EOPLE said when they

heard of

the great

merger:

together

By BASIL CARDEW

Lord Nuffielt

The ship's departure Morris - Austin 101 R. was watched "Those two men

Surely they

have

But once hostilities were over.

organisation5. watching hla

success, allocate £1,000,000 to bis cut down export prices for uwe models.

Three years ago, they made a

Brazilian naval officers again--Nuffield and Leonard

Just Lord. My ad men. glimpse of the scene been fighting each other for the Lord-Nuffield battic began temporary truce. The two vast With Nuffield gain. Lord started with a 16-var-making empires were to pool out factory resources to keep down years?

h. saloon, then brought chairman and Lord S

The w A40, a 10-h.p. car prices. managing director who th:1 swept America will be top dog now?"

ان

Gore 1 lest consciousness has

th- sailors waving goodbye.

as

LATEST: The searcs

for the Sao

пож

Paulo has been abandoned, tu a cable according the from Londen.

haro Painter, of Goodmayes-

Essex, and ruad. Goodmayes,

SLAVE LABOUR SYSTEM

ADOPTED BY RED CHINA

IN

By EDWARD CARRAN

counter revolutionaries

111

Both are difficult men, trucu- obstinate, brilliant bnt, engincuring, but impetuous :stin,

Bul both men have on. quality which should make it "mooth and easy for the merged metarne empire. That quality

loyally.

See how it has worked out.

The arrangement never really for its taliure Nefeld rapid with the new worked. Blathe 12-litre and 2-litre Rileys. 1ell on the complicated financial Lord came out with two bigger structure. models. the Sheerline and Prin- saloons. Nuffield brought out the new M.G. T.D. models, and the new Wolseleys.

ress

The truce

LORD brought out the "Atlan-

For three long years they met pooling after the flop of that scheme. Not only as fast colla- borntors and friends but as business men. Together they foreign taced the problem of competitiem.

tie Club convertible, which They decided there was

is a drophead two-seater. Nuffield, way only to get

one

together, to

There was the brilliant Wil- before this, had introduced the amalgamate 42,000 workers and

Morris Minor a wizard lum Morris who started a cycle new

Orst cight-h.p. car. And Lord, never business and buil his

to be outdone, introduced Morris car in 1913

Then, at the last A40 sports. Motor Show, he announced that

the

There was Leonard Lord who started at 4s. 6d. a week on a Austins would bring back their 12-hour day in a factory.

There

By

Seven saloon.

all counterpoint

Point 193 Morris found him- running one of the biggest time.

factories in Britain.

was

And

a score of great car-producing factories. And that is just what and has happened: Austin's Morris as one.

And how do you think they'll

get an together after three years

deep

contemplation?

of

UL

the course these two men-pethaps with Sir John Black, of. Stan- dard's, the greatest motoring Britain will make a

stim Leonard Lord went to North America brains in working

were executed, 45 were given death sentences and the last six months in West Szechwan, employed in

in transporting suspended and

332 were imprisoned. there has been increas- factories

coal. ing evidence that the At Hemtu in West Szechwan have been other similar reports Chinese Communist Govern- 387

in August to be Prisoners released on "parole," ment intends to use forced were stated

undergoing reform. Their tasks according to regulations publish andy-haired,

are placed

Lord in Shanghai, ed labour on a mass seale as included building roads, repair-

"super" Hichkiss control" and

company in Russia.

ing dykes, making bricks, pulling "under

and must undertake

lake | Morris bought up. wooden carts and collecting vision"

labour," the In February the Chinese nightsoil. It was claimed that "reform through

By ranging from Government issued new "re "ideological

re-education" had period of control

Other gulations on the punishment of

raised their enthusiasm for the one year to five years. anti-

revolutionary criminals."

regulations lay down that dis- work. These regulations provide for

possessed landlords, even though of death or life im-

they may never have been im- prisoned or charged, are to be surveillance Communist put under similar

sentence

prisonment on anyone who tries

"to undermine the people's de- A meeting of

mocratic cause There is also authorities to discuss the or- and made to do forced labour.

а

for

the BE soon as the war was over, do of it and work without fric- which studied the market, set up tre- tion together.

1933 he was the future Lord Nuffield's managing direc- 107. He redesigned the Morris

cars.

But Merris was still the bass, very much the boss, and three years Jaler Leonard Lord, then only 39, threw in his hand.

sinister reference to peasants ganisation of forced labour in

The immediate reason for the

People talked of a disagree- who resist grain levies and tax

of Central and the six provinces

in the boardroom. Lord collection.;

South China was recently re- rapid extension of forced labour

in China is not far to seek. Owing ment The Minister of Justice de-

during Nuffield said nothing. Loyalty a Communist news- ported by a

to the wave of arrests

of recent

months again. And all that Lord would clared at that time that for those paper in Hankow, and a similar the terror

China in East

ay was:- given prison sentences contre- meeting

was the prisons are becoming over- nent in itself was not sufficient

by the Press of rehat. The foriner meeting

In the course of seven O crowded.

"I am pig-headed, and Lord punishment and added:

public trials which occurred in

atone about Nuffleld had his opinions. There necessary to force

to was said to have made plans to one week in June labour, and through labour to increase the number of forced

after we had decided make them realise that they labour camps, and it was added 1.200 people were sentenced, and was no row between us. A few that arrangements had been disposing of those who are not to break our business relations The new regulations were the made with agricultural and executed straightaway. signal for

for u wave of political

water-conservancy departments re- pression, with the mass trials

"It is them

deserve their punishment."

Jals to use convict labour.

and incitement to denunciation

some means has to be found of minutes

economic But there are also

we had a gin and together."

The fight

French

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which have become a common In Soviet Russia forced labour

ESS than 12 months later feature of the new Communist camps are alled by people con-

which re- L4 Lord Nuffield was looking State. It was not long before demned to exile or to "depriva- advantages in forced labour. The the forced labour system was in tion of freedom," most of them Hankow newspaper

the meeting of Com-round for a man to hahdis his Trust for the operation.

for alleged offences covered by ported the

authorities in South and £2,000,000 term munist comprehensive "counter-revolutionary"; but this Central China pointed out that Speelai Areas.

forced

labour would "Increase the term in stretched to cover almost.

Whom did ha choose? nocial wealth and lighten which incurs the Burden of the State." The Chief Leonard Lord, of course. In March the Public Security any activity Bureau of the Kansu People's disapproval or suspicion of the of Pubile Security reminded the Government net up a Labour State police.

Just one year later there Before the war

Central-

s'arted, the business fight be Reform Committee

sont to forced meeting that in the of those and many were labour were peasants who hatt South aron, there were "waste- iwcen ile two, men a fight Tands to be cultivated, irrigation that went on for 13 years, a put into "inbour reform corps." resisted collectivaation, closely projects to be realised, mines to fight that was kern and ruth- Obedient prisoners were granted

Policy reduction of sentence, while paralleled in China and forces be excavated" and so on. those who realated "reform" labour is used as a punishment

anti were given, now sentences and for

entrevolutionary forced heavler penalties.

"counter-revolutionaries"

Soviet

1#

elomento, of a mass execution in engineering and other projects at Three months later, in June, 12. toports

less, but never biter. That wee In Soviet Russia the system of In 1938, when Lord had been

labour, enables then

snapped up ww works director of government to carry out vast Austin's, Longbridge.

He founit Austin's building was officially announced that a May sald that 19 of those con low cost, and is believed to have collective form hind heen set vietot had been reprieved for now become such an important the same types of car that had

Tientsin, up in

which on

two yours, during which they part of the national economy been an "investment" for years convicted

a commutation to that it can never be abolished, and years. He redesigned the "counter-revolution could earn orion" would do forced labour; life imprisonment if they Im The example of Russin suggests whole range of Austin models,

the numbers that

of (minve } giving them a Transatlantic and in July that: 063 prisoners prove themselves through workers in China will be in- look and the aligator bonnet wore Working in a "bpur: re- corrective labour.". formation group" formed by the Another report said that out treased

接 the.

Ponglisten People's Clovernment of 900 sentenced in one week 140 consolidate itself.

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