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WICKSTEDD OF THE ISLES.

--In which Bernard Wicksfeed tells how he has spent his fourth week surrounded by Water; this time on Soay, the Scollish island which a girl from London bought just because she wanted somewhere to live.

say the last 24

The islanders pay only £i d wedt in rant; ond there is un limited fuel for the taking in the peat bogs. They also havd a radio telephone now!

Against this they must pay

Ild.

parcel. for delivery of their rations, fuel for the lobster boats costs nearly double the mainland -price.

the

only £1 a year and

Through the dripping mist 1 on the back and laid on the off Skye in the Hebrides. groped nly way to the nonrest rocks. 0 far Wicksteed's cottage and knocked on the door.

weekly tour of the isles has taken you to nice islands, islands that people like. This one is quite different.

Gale-swept

A tall, bald-headed man "There kena a wheelbarrow on seaboots and sweater bade me the island, for there is nowhere into the parlour, and introduced level enough to wheel it."

His wife, keen and Intelligent-" me to his wife, who also wote seaboots. He was Sandy Camp- locking in site of the isolation, bell, and his wife, who is from said: "The young people will Skye, used to be a school- stay here, and who can, blaizo tencher. But now there is no them for that? They go away school. The classroom is locked for experience, and when they up, and two bachelors live in the come back they miss the worldly Reacher's quartera.

pleasures of the fosh

They had a boat with which Sandy's wife told me that the they used to fetch the ratlong first man to colonise the island from Mallaig, but one night it. let his fire go out by accident caught fire and they lost it.

This autumn at least two more and swam across the sound to Skye for a Bght. In these daya familles are moving to the main- of matches, pensions, and rationa land of their own accord. This delivered from the mainland, will leave only 18 people, four that sturdy spirit has died out, of them old-age pensioners.

Houses to let

For a while the community

They owned Here is a dying island,

flourished. and the 24 survivors-áll

fleet of fine schooners and were that are left of a once busy an

the carriers for the islands DECENTLY the island was around, but steam drove them.

sold community of 150 have. There are only two childịch implored the Government on Sosy now. One of them Out of business out of business. Then they for a few hundred pounds to r

Mrs Jan Geddes, an English girl quarried the local rock, and who used to be a secretary at to take them away from its Norman MacDonald, is Ove and ashalt and the other is thròé.

several streets in Liverpool were Ealing Studios. She is married to barren misty shores and Twenty years ago the school bad THERE are certainly few paved with their stone 50 years a shark fisherman at Mullaig, and settle them-somewhere else.. 10 pup.

worldly pleasures on Sony ago. That industry died out, she told me she bought the island Sandy used to be a sallet, and The lalanders belong to.

the "We too

for the sake of an empty house was torpedoed in World War Free" sect, and on Sundays they

that goes with it. I. The wooden walls of his neat put on their best clothes and In the 1030's they were twice

To the people of the mist who parlour are hung with his medals stay at home.. Villing on the nearly starved out when gales and the pleures of forgotten Sabbath is a sin. They will not cut them off for weeks. Then had been hoping for D the weather in 1937 they got their greatest They, called a meeting of all even listen in to SOAY 18 shaped like a pair ships.

millionaire this was the limit. of cuff links three miles

"Aye," he said, "it is a beaul forecast.

fright when 40 out of 81 went ;, ful place here when the sub Bany was Arst inhabited about down, with du and they could the islanders over 31 and signed across and joined together shines, but a man canna live on, 180 years ago by crofters from hardly man d boat. After an petition asking to be moved in the middle, At the beauty. We canna grow any Skye, who had been turned out epie. Journey

doctor and a nearest point it is only a thing but a few potatoes, and all by their chiefs to make way for nurse reached the island with Kilda before the war,

sheep.

modicines and comforts. mile from the coast of Skye, but that mile of water -gale-swept in winter and in. frequently fog-bound, summer is an evil spirit that dominates the islanders' lives.

I came here by motor boat from Mallaig, 16 miles away. The swirling mist threw every- thing out of proportion. Rocky Isleta looked like mountains, and tite seagulls sitting on them like rows of white houses..

the soil for them must be carried

away, as were the people of St

-London Express Sérolië)

THEY STILL SPEAK ENGLISH

IN CHAOS CITY

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By A MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT

His wook was a week is a run on the bank, the bubble tents,

of no pay, in Abádah blown by the aged Mossades once a rich oll town, will well and truly burst.

Financial experts bulb in now a collection of idle men Teheran and outside Feteln be

lieve it will be only a matter and nest-idte machines.

It has been going où like of months before this happens

unless Mossadeg can get more

When we felt our way into the little bay that the islanders use as a harbour the mist would lift for a moment and reveal a cot- tage, with the washing hanging limp and dejected from this ind. that for weeks not only in In the cerie, deceptive light the | Abadon but throughout garments looked like the clothes Persia. of some race of giants..

No living here started when the all grabbers

OUR

moved · In and Britons were moved out.

U.8. ald

from carburetters to

thefe Britain-hating and Britain- balijng Dr. Mossader's men, who have taken over the administra- tion of the all wells and re- Ancries

communicating in English on all matters of techni cal routine.

bre

And surprise No. 2. In the Abadan Guest House the menu

coolers.

Their lorries, slipping past is, as before, in English What down streets in which the Eng their new bossen the security guards by night, travel is more, the cooks are serving simo fish name boards have been dishes they served to the old. blotted out by black palat,

BalAgitators

The groen lawns, cherished by the English familes of Abadan MONG the abiens of work- are now, heffected, uncut anders, who crumble in another brown. The -style bedges, langung demoralisations

are over

making rapid progress.** olunt Communist agitators from

American money has already

·ljoen used to fiha worlt for Mossadeg's Government is 20,000 then made me by the And the losing the money race which chaos that followed the all strab. ing installed in the 20,000 Tiden Party are exploiting them

Built a trickle Only

by Anglo- with skill: The administratiye workers' homes Iranian

through offices

batilenolds shelelent maintenance, intrigue. BATAN. How is providing the

mag YÜR, shouts brought out Nell

The State owes its provincial A

Medlings

of axo Campbell, ond of the eight

sort of picture that may be becoming a now forbladen city held up because officials are not of so able-bodied men left on Compared with what Perita tever

teachers seven months salary reproduced elsewhere, in Persis, of the East-t

takt to

Britons, on speaking teems with AL the island, and he rowed me owes that is insignideant in ruling

the Hague Court whose money and bralás built other. Everyone who can tushéa ashore in a much-painted dinghy, everything but its

thin great bil centro

to Teheran

to get protection ara what was, once the world's Only one muropean is

one is reported patronago

from the politiciang Neil, who is sad-eyed and as a pointer to bankruptcy. fargest refinery only a trickle of still in Abadan-a Swedish Are who are now interfering more middle-aged, speaks Grelic like

Treuiatry, cheques drawn on off G baing produced. Almost the sported Him to problems when he uses English it is in the the National Bank of Persia are, the only bustle, the only humpert named Matte Helster, and more with, the personnel: ·

General Riahal the init the centers, the pifferors who vices. (This way, a preaks abidler-geologist, who is, in--

all these people of the mist and

gia Ave, he

significance. Thes

back. Already

the bank Government owca

Tho

comes from the "Five command, the Abadan,

,

nt: Abadan.

deliberate way of a man trans-bouncing

as he goes.. iating as he

all be $10,000,000, and the governor lost what they can and are glad out in this Eighly indiammable charge of the refinery, has been Bold "we'll all

no living is resisting, Cabinet, order to to get five percent of what plant they have a foreign scapes putting up a stiff reglatançó tö to to mino here at all. The lobsters are send a further million would have been the negotiable goat on whom they can put the political pregiures Onished. Sixty creels we put

Bat ons after another në The capital of the bank is value of the loo

lamo. No 1 of fo most entered the they down yesterday and this morn only £8,000,000. The money They are, broad-minded,

They will The Persians aro running and. It la feared that he himself ing only two lobsters in the lot. lent to the Government belongs. Five percenters. You canna live on that" to private depositors, So there handle anything from. tyres to Abadan in English. Despite all will soon be replaced.

JOHNNY HAZARD

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