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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1952.

'A little bird told the shop stewards that you have been telling people that no overtime would mean long evenings washing

up-doing the children's home work and one thing and another..."

London Express Service”

POLYBIOS KYRIAKIDES, CYPRUS OIL DIVINER

RE we in for a new of "wonder Wave workers" like that

which followed, the first war? I hope not. For that wave awept in the supreme champion. of them all, Herr Adolf Hitler, and presented us with the "wonders" of the Third Reich and the second world

War

who has won a vast follow-

I meet a fanatic who LIVES oil

• Thousands believe he can divine it

And all the time The bores away

There are portents and

When I came upon him it out. I had xnetly the same symptoms. however, which Polybios was just having feeling there as I have here." must not be ignored. In another 60ft. of boring His backers tested him out Germany. there is a novelist shaft added to his long drill, themselves in Cyprus. They The drill had already cut made him walk over fields in ing-but not as a novelist. down through rock, salt which they had burled ties of He persuades people to water, and clay to a depth

petrol under the ground. eat-unboiled, mind you of 3,200ft. in search of the hen's eggs which have been oil. fertile for nine days. Cures

are reported for almost Since then he has got everything from coughs to.down to 3,800ft. my latest

news from Cyprus tells-me.--

corns.-

AMERICA COLUMN from

NEWELL ROGERS

Housewives Differ

New York.

I, the trials of a prica

A controller!

Tighe Woods, the new price boss. announced on taking office that he is ready to scrap controls If the people wish it.

He decided to go: out, meet housewives, and find out what they want..

His Arst stop was Fresno California (Population: 91,000).

And what did he And? Half of the housewives want controls because prices are high. The others do not want them be cause they have not kept prices from rising.

The bewildered Mr Woods is

J

going to try six more towns across the land before return- ing to his office in Washington · to think things over.

Food prices remained station- ary in the last ten days record- ed in the Government price in- dex, It stands at 295.8 percent of the 1035-V average.

THE

¿HE Republicans and Demo- crats are estimated to be raising 30,000,000 dollars (more than £10,700,000) .to. help finance Elserower and Steven- son in their election campaigns,

IN

New York City, 1,200,000 pupils went to school as Dr Bella Dodd, an ex- Communist teacher, testifled before the Senole. Internal Security Sub- Committee, In 1944, she said, at least 1,000 of the children's teachers were in the Communist

But Polyblos is an engineer by gloomily watching him when I Party. profession and a good one, For found them. he succeeded in learning, enough out of handbooks to teach him-

"I wish he would come home self and his small staff or three just once in a while," she said. mechanics all they needed to "But he won't leave It, So I know about the job of drilling have to come out here,” for oil.

He has shown fascinating in-

SIGN OF TIMES?

are on

AT LEAST five versions of A "Robinson Cruse" Hollywood's produelion schedule for the next few months.

AFTER flying 27 missions in

Korea, and more than 100 in World War II, Captain Mar- tin Brent, 30-year-old Distin- guished Flying Cross-holder, birthday. At the reunion, Cap- got leave for his son Michael's faith that the Cypriots fave intain Brent had a heart attack

J

Added to

He converted engines from three British Valentine tanks he bought from a scrap heap to TS if a sign of the times, this drive his winches and drills. Ho has himself designed and forged the oil man? Is there a wave and died. a whole series of gadgets needed of credulity which follows in in the drilling.

the wake of wara?.

CONGRESS, committee de- Investigate Pro- The Persian mobs last year sident Truman's sacking of genuity in overcoming various were convinced that their good Lamar Caudle, an ex-Assistant - General who Attorney difficulties, among them the ng- Doctor would usher in on era of

prosecuted tax evaders, position of the sceptical British wealth and case for them.. Was there improper pressure authorities to letting him have

upon him to go easy on the dollars for any

imported

the Germans con- evaders? they asked. Yes, he When Polyblos divined them machintay. Oll experts who vinced that Hiller would con said. Who from? Caudle re- one after the other they were have seen him at work with his quer the world, and make them plied: From Congressmen completely satisfied.

derrick and borers say that the a rich, slave-owning herrenvolk. behalf of constituents. technical business of drilling is

IN De Moines, Iowa, Divorce being carried out us perfectly na

difference, Court judge D.D. Needham, though, between wonder-man signed an It could be by any oll technicians-Polybles and these others.

order restraining... George Jones from entering his of long standing.

home or molesting Mrs Jones. Two hours later,

Judge court, unaware of action-aigned

So were

There

1C one

should like to see him succeed,

HIS GADGETS

In Persia there is that

Polybios "feels" the oil is and drilling for oll was a. estimable old miracle man under the ground here at to Polybios when he and his completely unknown science

Polyblos lives with the drill

And I wish, our own author. Dr Mossadeg. And now, on a depth he says of ap- backers started on this venture night and day. Ho has been at ties in the Middle East had some a trip to Cyprus, I have run proximately 4,500ft.-just ----Just as the German novelist it since the derrick was first put of the drive and fanaticism that into Polybios Kyriakides the as he successfully "felt" the who has launched the cgg- up last-nutumn. His young wife have made him raise this der oil diviner.

upturned rick, even if he never strikes oil, presence of water at other swallowing cult has no academic was sitting on an knowledge of medicine,

barrel darning his socks and I was roaming around places on the island. Cyprus at the time trying to Two oil experts from, see how we are getting on the Iraq Petroleum Com-

with the job of

fixing up that

island as a Medi-

liz

terranean Super SEFTON DELMER

buse.

no

Polybios.

Nor does it worry

HASSAN, OF

Basra.

T m.p.h. and at

THE THE

-(London Express Service)

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од

in another puter ph Meyer-

Needham's

an order re- straining Mrs Jones from en- Afr Jones. The Jonceer had filed tering the house or molesting

divorce aulis against each other.

COMING MAN MIDDLE EAST

By a Special Correspondent

opply tha

of

mechanical

**

In "Hanson's lifetime the cara- vons have been replaced by or convoys across, asphalted desert roads; airliners carry the merchant princes between cities. And now it is Hassan who watches over the trade routes..

For the last couple of pany, after a £150,000 oil years the planners have survey of the island, told kept whispering that Cyprus him that they would tour kept vital strategic im- up their diplomas if he A35,000 feet altitude, a

in Iraq's swiftly-changing pate tem of society, portance; that it is the ever strikes oil here. But

there, evolved with industry.

From From his village school, whose

the Queen of Sheba's alternative to Fayld, that does not worry Comet jet airliner flew re Hassan as a tradesman emerged syllabus is mainly Koganic, he time until almost yesterday, Ismailin, and the rest if we

cently on a proving flight from the wastes,

was picked out at twelve years Arab commercial life depended have to get out from the

his over Baghdad. And at Basra

His Importance though is in school in Basra. At 10

of age to be sent to a secondary on slender lines of camel cara-

· he Suez Canal; that Cyprus has Cypriot backers, who have radio station, Hassan Sel- estimable.

vans. The sheiks, kept the de- Was

peace, guarding selected by competitive examina. part

those been designated as the H.Q. put up £80,000 to finance man, a 22-year-old Arab

From her oil revenues-some

tion to train at

threads from marauders. government ex- for the new Middle East the drilling. For Polybios radio mechanic, lingered en 40,000,000 this year--Iraq is pense as a radio mechanic. Now, Command.

has struck water on the tranced by a radar instru- planning vost

at 22 he is earning 22 dinars modernisation t island in spots where ment.

schemes. But oll, the source

month, compared with a doctor's all the experts of the

capital wealth, provides never 60 to 90, and a labourer's seven His brown eyes shone in his theless jobs for only 100,000 to 10 a month. (One dinar British Colonial gov. bronzed face at the thought that Iraqis, mostly unskilled labour, equaïs.£1), ernor had declared he had played his part, small as The new schemes will only work no water could be fraq, the land where first they can

On first acquaintance he is not was, in a Comet's flight across successfully if the Young Kienes so convivial as.many of his lem with a soanner instead of a rife, found. All Cyprus told of the Magic Carpet, For "know-how of the trades they progressive countrymen; bo is is confident that Hatsan himself is only, no, are so tenaciously acquiring. trying too hard to Westamise Polybios will tri-Ceneration removed from a de-

bimself. He has an" adolescent

His 'talks with his fellow umph over the ex

brashness. He dresses

tradesmen are mainly about perts again..."The oil The ancient minaret wired for What Is he like, this Young. Western slyle, wears

engineering; electronic terms fall on open strangely among throaty Arab. in the ground sends a recorded muezzin; the desert Efendi? Look at Haman; be is necked shirt and slacks, and at cadences. But unity of interests Arab at his radio; at every point typical. At first, trainee trades night he puts on a rainbow- and constant associations of workc up electronic vibra- in the Middle East there is this men were drawn only from the coloured tie. His flowing robes and in leisure time may bring tione," Polybios, hag-clash between the medieval and city; lately hey have been and khuynh headwear he has. the Young Effendis of age poll- gard, swarthy faced the modem.

coming from this tough reseTVÉ

'lically faster than their own There Was no KYRIAMDES and with the burn--

of human beings, the desert long discarded. How be a foliticians appear to expect, Hasson belongs to a new class change-except for

can you work in them at à ing evés of the steadily growing throughout the Arab.

bench?

means 47-year-old Polybios..

Arable. Effendi fanatic, assured me. East. The killed tradesmen at Hosson's father was a member

"Mister," a potentiaily prophetle And what an "except" he "I react to those vibrations. I distinct from. the traditional of a camel, police force main Ho Is pro-British. He knows labelling. Hassan could become is. For I found Polybios not am ogative to them just as I technicians who returned to 20- he wants to write to his son he created his country out of three Agute which has never before and foreign-trained tained by a local shelk. When Unt it was the British who a nation-wide personality-a only divining oll but drilling: am uitive to similar emana come managers or specialists, goes to the nearby village scribe, neglected

provinces of the for it as well.

tions sent up by water tr

emerged in Arab history-that He is the man with the spanner to have his leftor written for Ottoman Empire at Tirilish by the West na The Man in the end of indefinable character referred to World War It was,

who ensured that the street. on which gave bin

Well, I found that nothing had been done at all. No new radar stations have been put in,

been attempt has made to modernise the hopelessly. inadequate harbours. Not a hand has been lifted to put the neglected airfields into shape or build new ones.

Yes, air, a 210ft. Ameri-

"How do you know-you aro can oll derrick has been sot reacting to oil and not up on a rather derelict water?" I asked him. looking strip of land hard

sert tent.

In

In

something quite novel in the him,

East Midlo

Hassan himself has päilently to Yer within and generation. Learned to read and write en chance was fair. And now it la s It is Hassan's hands, strong, Hassan and his fellows have oddly stilled English, as well de British Instructors, who teach aliin, and alnowy, that first at- emerged with "an identity, sufil- his clamical Arable. The odd- him his trade,

"tract attention. In: Hassan'a ciently distinctive", lo', merit 'a' news of his Engliais, expression managin

hands fiés much of Iraq's future,

by the Mediterranean shore is a difference la the political fog. The Young Effendi results from fils almost exclusive ith surprising Insight, Has. They look capable swiftly. nine miles from ancient rool, I have been to olleidate has no parallel in Europe's study of English aciontife: 90ml ED siged to me why he was leaming hands, even as they put Limassol,

at'Plosti in' Rumania / X' testad, Industrial, history, "Tradesinen Books,

sheik'a koportance-togellier a ̧radio pet.”