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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1953,

1

THE FOURTH DAY in the hunt for the master-spy

A

woman

THE STORY is told by Ralph Brown, of Scotland Yard. A man called Pitt, under sentence of death für killing a Soho qiri, is trying to bargain for his life by offering to reveal the identity nj a master spy called 'zonidos. Going over the murder trail, Brown meets a scarfaced Pole called Rashki, The next move. is to see Pit's wile. And at the Pitt home Brown finds a photograph of a Russian diplomat, meets Rashki again, and finds he is on friendly terms with Mrs. Pitt ...

NSTEAD of taking me to the condemned cell when I arrived at Fentonville this morning, the deputy governor led me into his office and offered me coffee and a cigarette.

"You can't see Pitt for the moment," he said. “He's

in the visiting room, talking

to his wife."

I said at once: "Is there

The man who

a place where I can watch said 'They

them and listen to what they are saying?"

The deputy Inoked shocked. "We don't do that sort of thing. Brown. His warders are stand- ing by, and they report if there is anything unusual. But dammit. nan, he's going to be hanged on Saturday. Let the poor devil talk to his wife without.enves dropping,"

"I raise my hat to your sense of delicacy," I told him, and then added sharply: "But I have a job on my hands that is more important than the feelings of Robert Fitt. A stray word front that man can save the lives of millions of people-the future of your children, perhaps, you have any. Now, come on, man, stop being sentimental about something Pill will never know

Where has

happened.

con watel, without being seen by either of them?"

Without a word he led me out of the offee and into the prison Presently I was looking proper, through a tiny grille into the visiting room. I looked sideways on to Pitt and, at the other side of the wired glass window that the elegantly separated them. lovely Antonia almost faced me,

ever come,

can't hang me!' meets his wife

house, how would do with the she planned to get a job. You could tell from her tone of voice that she was not being de- Ilberately cruel; merely that she had already written him off, out of her life.

He sat there listening to her, and then abruptly leaned to wards the gloss almost as if he were about to prod his neat litilo nose through it, and he said: "You talk as if I were already dead, Antonia. You'd better be careful, I may cheat the hang- man yet."

THEN they stared at each other, cold contempt in his eyes, a fierce hatred in hers, until he got up to his feet and signalled to his warders to take him away.

When I entered the

con-

calls

material of the cartridge; but of them only about a dozen could possibly. have understood the significance of what they had been handling.

It had had to be a top-grade man-one of the chiefs, In fact - know what to steal.

Get me out of here, get me out, get me out,'

he screamed Illustration by ROBB

them what I thought about the atomic bomb.

I told Riddell, the security

I told them that, in my demned cell later he bounced to man at the station, that he had his feet, his eyes glittering with my recommendation (backed by with atoms should be first de- opinion, all men who meddled excitement, 1 saw that he had the Cabinet) to give the top clared insane, and then kept in Leen reading the morning atomic scientists

working there

they could not the roughest,

eages, so that closest, most NOT for the first time I papers.

wondered how these two had The prison

authorities had rigorous exomination they had possibly have any control over

the fruits of their experiments. together. Was it carefully excised all references ever had. possible that they had ever been to his own case, but they By early afternoon there was in love? Could there have been hadn't why should they? an urgent call for me to join passion and intimacy and com- thought to eliminate a email Riddell and

the hurt Boothe

CIR ROBERT radeship between them? If so,

so paragraph

on the front page feelings of the scientists. They tantrum by walking out of any fire they had kindled in each which described an unexpected. felt that their integrity was other was manifestly dead now security search at our

chief being doubted (I'll say it was!), the room in a dudgeon Robinson-

Heaton looked at each

me with a They looked at other atomic research centre the

vague

soft sympathy in his without any fondness. Pitt was

day.

brown eyes, The protest meet- pale and distraught and his wife lonked anxious,

ing was over-and nobody was any nearer to discovering whe had stolen the missing cartridge. It was just before midnight

but you something missing.

PROTEST delegation of two was waiting to see me when

I groaned when I saw them

Hiroshima ori

replied to my

I fumbled at the door in the

Аз

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

'OW that damagos have with your revolting wife and

been awarded in the hideous children.

"Moreover, High Court to a man

hope you will .be without # car, and miles froin who has been troubled by a

a bus dop, without a macintosh noisy neighbour, attention

or unbrella. I also hope at has been drawn onco more

wife's dreadful flowered

Your

and terrible hat will be

ruined, and that your children

to the National Physical frock Laboratory at Teddington, will be soaked to the skin and where noise is being catch colds." measured in decibels.

It seems they are trying to find out how much noise people

can stand before they go mad or drop dead.

Fashion note

REPORT

A "Fath

from Paris says: flashes into fashion

Measured in decibels, a quiet countryside is 10 to 20, ordinary with the new Pneumonia Line. conversation 40 to 50, street His plunging necklines are the sounds 60 to 70, a train corridor most daring ever seen in Paris. For his main theme he takes a fashion somersault through the

Jacketa

Ignore

hip

85, and a pneumatic dril 50,

it yours,

It is whon noise reaches the figure of 130 decibels that becomes injurious to mental health, or fatal.

that

costs gently bypass the waist."

Another report

Enys: "Paris accessories are as gay as ever. At Paulette's here Is a very her

fishy atmosphe about hate. Fishnet snoods and cock- tali berels have returned."

I don't know who Fath it. I never heard of Paulette, have But I can

the report that

All of which indicates your Uncle Nat, who is over sensitive to noist, has only just escaped sudden death or

I sanily every time a dear little kiddle screams or a dear little fociions of the Southeast Coast

doggie barke

For instance

instance, if he is in the

quiet countryside enjoying 10

to 20 decibels of noise caused

by birds singing, cows moo-ing,

sheep boa-ing, bees buzzing,

of England are not far behind Pans.

and ancient men muttering to discarded boatmen's

worn by four-ale bars, now

each

orio

other in

theking doggle can bring head instead of

Two

For instance, what look like socks are women on the on the feet, to 60 or 70,

causing a fly atmosphere in barking

up doggies can crowded places. How's that for

The Pneumonia to DD or 100,

bring it up to 80 or 90, three a somersault? fighting doggies up

and four

спе

Line. was Ly theko fighting doggies and fashionable

Parts up to years ago when the wild cast screaming kiddle 129, only one below the sudden winds fore overcoats away from death, or cuckoo,

the bosom of stout parties and

line.

Fortunately, your Uncle has showed

to hear the daring

or blush.

the

never been able noise of barking doggies kiddies above screaming noise of a pneumatic drill.

Otherwise he would have been mad, or dead, by now.

plunging

necklines

enough to make you

oldestg

In 'some

to some

of the inhabitants Jackets have ignored hips and coats have by- passed the waist for generations. cases very wide hips have Ignored Jackets and enormous waists have bypassed coats. Which is one in the eye author of for Fath. Conversa-

Conversation

TYTHEL COTTON, "Adventures in tion,"

says, in

answer no that many of us more than "Yes" to the remark "It's a fine day, isn't it?" LIKE me, an American visitor Ands that English politeness What we should answer is, becoming tedious.

They

oven

thank you when "Yes; but I think it may rain before night." This shows you they do something for you," he have considered the question says. "Sometimes you wonder before speaking."

who is thanking who for what."

He must have

heard this

an Interview, Thanking you

I usually reply "Yes" when people tell me it is a fine day,

but

F1 on one occasion, when man accused me of being un- sociable, I gave him the works,

I said: "It is obviously Д fine day because the sun shining, The sun is shining be- cloudy in

cause there are no front of it.

kind of goodbye of an English railway station:

Well; thank you for every- thing.

19

แล

is

there, Inspector?" he sala. feel that ench was worrying "They've stolen the cartridge on about self and not about the the Monte Bello bomb, haven't I arrived. other.

they? It's Leonidos again. 1 And the talk? She was dis- know the plan. 1 know how sitting, red-faced and indignant, when I reached my fat up the

future what she they are going to get it away-- In Riddel's office. The scientists hill from Notting Hill Gate. cussing the

and without my help you can't had obviously decided to choose pressed the light at the bottom

them inspector.

of the stakra but, as usual, it I stop

whose loyalty and spokesmen His eyes blazed and he reached bona fides were not in doubt.

didn't work. out a hand to my arm and Sir Robert Rosper and Edward gripped It.

"An end to this Robinson-Heaton were both dis- darkness to put my key in the farce, mani Get me out of here, tinguished in reputation and delicate feminine perfume.

lock. amiffed, and smelled

"These conditions are brought and I'l save your precious secret. But - GET-ME OUT ability. Both of them had worked 3-did-80-an arm-felt-for-me

about by a belt of high pressure, GET ME OUT, GET ME OUT the Manhattan Project, which-

produced the

atom bomb that gripped me under my shoulders, approximately 2,000 mile long sold: "The Home Secretary dropped

and an urgent voice whispered and ten miles deep, which and in is still considering your case, ended the war with Japan. They

my ear: "Please, Inspector pussing over the Atlantic from sir. If he has reason to believe probably knew more about stomic desperately need

Brown, I need your help. I 80 west to east at an approximate

speed you are not guilty of the murder, fission than any two American or

15 of between 10 and miles an hour. there are mitigating cir- russian scientists.

I made a grab for the own

owner cumstances.

volce,

"When and then I I pushed of the

this belt of high Sir Robert, however, was in- whether I killed "Who cares

it clined to be a bore about politics, the light,

door and switched on pressure has passed, open the

I didn't he shouted He had someone or not?"

need the brother а

probably be followed by a bet who had been illumination, navagely. "What does the life

of

though, to know voluntary

of low pressure, in which case hood of a common woman matter com- which lost its

hospital that I had my arm round the moisture from clouds

driven grant when the slim, pared with the fact that, in National Health Law was passed Antonia Pitt.

across the Atlantic by westerly forty-eight hours' time, a plane and he hated Aneurin Bevan (the

winds will form into droplets, be taking

the

most man who had piloted the Bill

known as rain, which, as

уси you have and

icnow, falls on the just and un- behind taking it

the

Iron

fint alike. Curtain? To hell with mitigat-

clrcumstances! I ing

don't Justice from you.

want fa I Want to Bevanites." talk-in return for my freedom."

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through the House) with passion. so-and-so Reds!" was his the dexription for

Robinson-Heaton was a gentler "I am sure the Home Secretary flory in his hatreds,

and less bucolic man, but no less He hated

will be interested in what you anyone suspected of red or pink

str I mld. And left him. In his make-up too.

say, Bir

I knew now that Robert, Pitt's

one

With Robinson-Heaton nerve was beginning to crack, was inclined to sympathise. His Time (and the hangman) were only son had gone down with a creeping up on him, and he Royal Navy destroyer protecting would be talking soon.

B convoy to Russia, and his only daughter after marrying a

a new life in Prague--had been

Bhis remark about the plane

how long had we?

Did arrested in the first purge that

your

unresisting waist

TOMORROW: Antorla

speaks out

London Express Service

OF

will

1

"When it falls on you, hope you will be having a plenic

Thank you for everything. Well; thank you for having

Thank you for staying with

Thank you for thanking us. Oh, no. Thank you for thanking us.

Well, thank-you-for-thank-- ing us for thanking you,

And thank you for thank- ing us for thanking you.

Well, thank you for think- ing of thanking us for thank- ing you.

And thank you for think- ing of thanking us for thank- ing you.

Well, thank you again for everything.

Thank you for everything.

No; thank you.

No; you.

Well, thanks anyway,

MARKSMANSHIP

MOTHERS

Thanks.

Thanks.

=(London Express Service)

FOR

By WILLIAM BLUETT

Its, fortune-teller

equally probably

Czech officer and departing forTHERE are few more assistants pointed out, "an im- mechanised effigies of the "Dove

revealing guides to life ported row

It is of Peace." material! followed the deaths pot under Communism than the also, as they getur material. Debby Late

omilled to men probably intoned passages from really mean that we had forty- and the formation of a Czech correspondence columns of What is not understandable Is its hoop-la rings were miniature eight hours before

the stolen Communist regime. She died in newspapers in the USSR the fact that this precious com- nozes to be thrown round ob- cartridge left the country? And prison nine months later.

and the satellite states. modily should be made into jects resembling the necks of If so, which plano would take

They were the two most Consider, for instance, the marksmar

toys and given away to superior Soviet doctora It-and from which airfield virulent anti Reds on the

(or even marks- would it leave?

station. 1 know

In which case, the presence of from following letter from

my

women) at fairs, The search

rubber.loys. In the shooting xải- was on for the dossiers at Scotland Yard that | Czechoslovak mother, print-

It would be pleasing to lery becomes at once explicable. missing atomic cartridge. We both of them were meddling with ed in the Prague Journal, imagine that the fair in They

all stopping every man, international politics in a large Kvety:

were put there, in question WON

relic of their rarity, to attract plus every way. woman, and child,

Czechoslovakia's vehicle, within ten miles of the

In early August, a fair was dom: that, here today and gone the Communist States sot

former free shooting children upon whom held at Annin, near Tovacov. tomorrow, It had, by its

special very Among other attractions; there impermanence

store. In free countries, Infants In дру

one who reveal a talent for handling: Communist murderous weapons are looked

wero

research centre, But that was rather like looking inside the cot after the child has

We had

.

I have

two

EXPLANATION

shart-

upon with difavour, In', the "People's Democracies" they are, potential fighters for peace.

would

"cléirly ↑ [consider

is virtual nozmal enjoyment di time- McCarthy's eye was a popular Why, then, are there alloca-

we allow 1 Impossible to win • major wasting bourgeois dissipation.

kidnapped.

been BOTH of them spoke regularly was a shooting gallery which locally cacaped

to Eastern Europe on the featured children's rubber toys officialdom... an agent at every Voice of America programmes for prizes. Now, Customs bench in the country, Both of them belonged to on small children, and I have been watching the pockets and luggage organisation called the Anglo-looking everywhere for rubber of every traveller leaving Britain Stay Freedom League which to take care of. In all the that the rubber toys were

toys because they are safe and But, in any case, how, is R Even so, it is difficult! (to by sea or air. But we knew preached aggressive actiostores, I received the same posed to the hazards of communist child would do with the ex-: vlaunlisg what, the Ideal Cam- only too well that there are against the satellite countries be-answer. They are not produced petition! Anyone who has tried scarcest rubber tog if he won it. plenty of Illezal (not to say hind.the Iron Curtain.

unoficial") methods of escaping:

"They are po Right-wing any more-rubber is an import-; his luck in a shooting gallery He out of the country for those who they could find pink in Senator od raw materiall knows the answer. It know the right people,

crack among the other scientists lions for shooting galleriest

prite

in such an establishment. Probably he would giver the at the station.

The gallery at Annin. had; thing to his mother," whop like he "I asked the attendant if WHAT we did not need to be Now they were meeting mo to would sell me sure, but he sald probably kept in treasures the lady of Arrain, wand be old

enough and wise enough W reminded

because security. pratent

Was they were not for sale anyone intact for yeare on end, of was the fact pressing their colleagues over who wanted such a toy must Unhappily, such zodiactures were children instead of Young call the days when, children that someone in a high position the missing plan and sample: get a score of 35 points. There are academic, for there can be Piccars, and coys prizes for on the staff of the atomie They were pompous and Indigla, iscoms, nothing left for no doubt that the file had been good behaviour rather than good research centre was a thlet and nant and rude. They talked mothere but to learn to shoot, licensed and launched by the #traltor.

about the digally of science and so that they may get toys for Blate. The char ret marksmanship. Pampang There were scores of experts. the integrity of dedicated men. / their babies."

čoccursala weźć. "daubed" to re He might then report her to at the centro who might have I am afraid I was very rude That rubber should be scaron somblo "bourgools-comppailton the authoritice, dor, failing to had access, at one lime or to them, I told them what I in Czechoslovakia is - under-Zianist i watmonsters.""and: ita hand the precious" ny to the: another, to either plans or the thought about scientists. I told standable. It is, as the store roundabouts = 21:14 od” with local People's Salvager Outre.

--DI