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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY,

MAY 19, 1958.

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Statistics show that in this part of the world there are more sufferers from tuberculosis than from all the other diseases put together.

•

The only way tuberculosis can be controlled -and in time, its incidence lessened, is by making it known to the masses that early discovery and modern treatment can effect

a cure.

That the work of the Hongkong Anti- -Tuberculosis-Association_is_causing many.... thousands to become conscious of the danger to which they are, exposed was very clearly Indicated during the period of the recent Anti-Tuberculosis Exhibition when more

than-

60,000 PEOPLE

visited the Anti-T.B. Association and saw for themselves what havoc this grim disease

can cause..

Many have come forward for examination and where necessary, free hospitalisation to the limit of the accommodation "available. The assistance afforded is governed by the

means.

Chaques should be crossed and addressed- "HONGKONG' ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION"

During this Annual Appeal, please

GIVE THAT THEY MAY LIVE

are really like

T is easy for a man lo

beur hatred of captors who have kept him im-

years.

·

by Commissioner LORD

a thick

prisoned in miserable in Marxist philosophy. Every and primitive conditions for guard had

note book lecture three bleak and hopeless full of indoctrinisation

notes. Perlodical examinations were held and all promotions It would be easy to write were dependent on ability to

pass these political tests.

In with loathing and dismiss order to learn their lessons, the as savages all the men and guards would practise on us. women of North Korea.

All their arguments followed stereotyped pattern, so that It would be easy, but it a

we knew exactly what the next would be wrong. For the sentence would be. Then people of North Korea and would ask questions outside the the soldiers of North Korea scope of the lecture. The answer would then be, "Oh, we haven't are just like the people and had that point vel; wait a few the soldiers of any other days and I will be back withi country.

Among them there good men as well as bad,

the answer."

We

What, now, about the people outside the prison camps? Although face communication with the local population was forbidden, it was possible to ineet quite number of the orẻ. dinary people.

Discontent

London Express Service

WAR and violence, mur-

der and aggression have projected the hapless country of Korra Into world politics.

But even now ittle is known about the country, Less still about the North Koreans who three years

on a June morning. crossed the 38th parallel and threw all civilisation state of tension and turmoil.

What are they really like, these. North Koreans? What do they think? How. do they live? Do they hate the

14

MERRY $ WIDOWS

From

SYDNEY SMITH

Paris.

FOURTEEN merry widows all abllar millionairesses-slipped into Paris during the week-end on the way to the Coronation but, for all their dollars, they are going to have to stay in a Southend- on-Sea hotel because there is nowhere left for them in London. (Southend, pop. 151,830 a seaside resort 86% miles from London, on the Thames estuary.)

The widows-the eldest is 74--belong. to the wealthiest single-group-of-Ameri can Coronation tourists, a remarkable band forty strong. Of the total, 20 are widows, six are men and the rest wives and families of oil, shipping and Alaskan 'cannery tycoons from the American West coast state of Washington.

And, widows included, well over half of them are millionaires.

In charge of the party is a dynamic, plump little middle-aged woman from Seattle, Honey Hansen, organiser of the £2,000-a-hend round trip, and protector of the million-dollar anonymity.

I sat and had breakfast with Honey Hansen and her million-dollar charges just before they dashed off to Versailles to see every thing in the Palace, from the Hall of Mirrors to the ill-fated Marie Antoinette's painted zinc bathtub.

West? Do they even know anything about the West?

Now at last the answers to these questions can be Kiven. For from the Korean prisoner of war camp ir which he spent three years has come a man whose in- tearity as an observe and whose honesty of purpose is beyond doubt Com- missioner Lord of the Salvation Army.

Here is his report on the men and women on the North side of the 38th parallel, who fight and 'dle, who bomb and are bombed.

his sons like that and then ex- house and killed my father, peet him to produce pervased mother, wife and children. results from his form.

буда out driving a truck and

He sat for a few minutes thereby saved." silently resting and smoking his

I expressed sympathy and he thanked me, and

plpe

.

They Smile

ONE of there was a yours by but I know chworld would be future."

prepossessing man who

of some

U

Night Out

!!!

ittle

They were looking a faded because they did not back from a night out, at'

get tho Folles Bergere until after mid- night. Said Honey: "They want to slay anonymous Out of eighty applicants for the trip they were selected not for social or cash reasons but bo cause they're the sort of people who mix and stay as a

a venture for happinup In "I brought the fourteen widows all. through the Far East- to join the rest of the party in Napies. We had the best of everything everywhere--but down to earthish, too. We

rode on elephanta in India, cdinals and donkeys In the Middle East, and and Just

for the experience yesterday we rode on the subway-second-class, too,"

Their metro ride took them to the Flea Market, which sells raakbottom price goods Next week, top coulu:ler Christian Dior gives them. exclusive dress

ress ahovy.

"We have shipped back home cases of stuff we've... bajight,?. says Honey, but nobody has gone hog-wild on buying noti like people who ought to have their heads examined when they get back"

!.

Seeing History

of home-grown tobacco, smiled and then he gave a sardonle laugh said, "Of course you didn't do To generalise is unwise, but and said: "What can you expect it so I don't blame you." from a negative point of view I

of them, anyhow? People who can think of only two non-

say there is no God, and that official farmers who were man hos enthusiastic about the present can talk like that one cannot soul. When they regime.

expect any sense or justice," NOTHER lad sharing a dug-

I asked him if he was, or ever. A with

out had been, a Christian. "No" he internes, cne night fald, "The said. "I am an ignorant old man other night a bomb-fell on our I have never read a book, I house and Ave were killed and have never been inside church. I and two others were saved, so I am going to take cover in The general standard of guard had any land or other posses- Impossible without God.

his own statement had never stand that this world would be are education was low. Mest of the

"I am "Oh," said his friend, I ask

the

sole survivor of a group of guards even officers-had not

sions in his life until the new you now-how could the world

make itself?—how could all ve when our house นาง

This forthright little conduc finished elementary school-some administrailen had given him a

bombed," The North Koreans with had never been to school at all. large tract of land to farm for these things grow but for God? and were friendly with us.

And still they smiled

tor of gold says she lectured. himelt with a rood house to They are a lot of ignorant What, then, is this Korean Amerlen..

her charges before they left live in,

fools!"

then to- called like? Generalities are person Chuckling to himself he got always dangerous, but allowing the best travel and accommo

gether and I said, "If you want up, picked up his load

for firewood and moved off.

exceptions one can say that dation-stay home. We are not. the Korean is proud, with a going places to compare hotels quite unboastful pride an at- or look for plumbing. We are stand.

forget we're foreigners. And? He feels he is heir to an anyone I see- behaving badly HOWEVER, the most astonish

of culture. He "Well-we all did peddle in Ling, and remarkable thing is s'ill certain that the world the Dead Sea, all that impressed us all was the turns und Korea as is axis. widowa. And I have not" sent. fact that, apart from a very few

He is polient. He has suffered anyone home." isolated Incidents, no

whom we came most in con- tact were of course our guards. Let me tell you

about them:

It was important to get on well with your guard for whether a guard was a pri- vate, NCO or a brigadier each seemed to have full authority to do just as ho pleased with the prisoners,

Death Orders

NE man - a three-started captain was in charge of the investigation office which examined the British Minister and the rest of us when we

were first Interned.

and

The other was a village head- man-elected by the people who had many obvious advan- tages as a result of his position. On the other hand, several went so far as to my they wero happier. under the Japanese colonial rule and would rather go back to it than remain under the present administration.

non-

The majority werD commital, except one old man whose three sons had all been taken to the army.

No Hostility

or hostile attitude to any

of

"I

tude Westerners, seldom undergoing to see history and don't

thousand years or cat by four will be sent right back'.

local

Our as

דבקים!

We slept in his omnce all night, and next morning, July 3, 1950, before 0

in elderly 4.1., Were they cruel men? Did obviously well educated and

He had heard nothing from Korcan ever showed a vengefut at the hands of his own emcials. a result of invasions from refined ometal of lesser two of them since they had left more they take advantage of the rank came in the room with two and a half years before, Nations bombing.

Russia and Chich—but party on account of United his history has taught him that tremendous personal power large of documents which and the other was known to be

all these things poes on and still they wielded?

turned out to be the dossiers of

a prisoner in the south, He One young man said to me- Korea remains Korea. men who had been executed the

complained bitterly of a govern- "I am the sole survivor of a day before probably a hundred ment that could take away all family of nine-a bomb hit our Erpresa Service.)

more CJ80%. They were brought in for lgnature and approval or otherwise of the execution order.

PT At Dawn'

HERE is a story symp- tomatic of the way they treated us:

or

As the "three-star" hurriedly went through the papers, putting his signature scal of approval On one occasion a new on each. and making caustic guard ordered all to get up jokes about the piliable confes- at the first streak of dawn ions in some-he asked: "When to do PT in a cold bleak will these men be disposed of?" yard. The men obeyed re- "Oh,” answered the other, "we luctantly. When the guard finished them off yesterday, as you were too busy to attend to started to get the women the formalities." out he immediately met

"You hadn't better be in such trouble. A Russian mother a hurry again, was the only with three small children rejoinder. refused to be disturbed so early in the morning.

up

and

out

them to get.

NEHRU

(World Copyright Reserved—London

fourteen

"Good morning, dear, how are you?" sald an elderly grey haired spectacled. passing, mi-

lonniress, complete with movía! camera, heading for the -Ver- sailles imousine.

"Oh. I'm exquisite, theras, sald Honey.

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PURETTEL

PROPOUND AN

DOCTRINE

MAY INDIAN "MONROE

By PATRICK MAITLAND, M.p.

exploration for all.

and

the

the same.

London.

For many years Persia has ANDIT Nehru has ad-

harboured a grudge about fio Isle of Bahreld, which is under mitted privately that

As to the menace to Burma and Washington held back British protection. They” bilg' {t for anxiety about the pre- already well known,

there is solid reason and Slam, the broad trends are the Afghana surpended is rightfully Persian They shy of certairs Mataller sent Chinesa

islets, notably Tunb, Buri Mum, Communist

Afghanistan is another matter,

These things are for the pre- and Shri. "!! pressure on Southeast Asia. That is the first non-Com- sent little more than ripples.

There Istets are smili munist country in Asia to accept And as India already has a only occupied by a tets The Government of India technical help from the USSI Treaty of Friendship with the They are ownel, how HIS three-star official later are, therefore, considering This follows protests from the Afghans-directed mainly, alas, Trucial Shelley who

Soviet Government about the Pakistan it would

Jiggy-Koon

told me his story. He had making a formal announce Afghans acceptance of American natural for India to be ready

be the northeist : cónat

any

Guit

are

and its security along with the security

The stories now reaching Löff~** of

Trucin] the

Const

- don frome BaghdadartheDSOPTIM Saudi-Arabia,

direct concern to India.

Mossadeg Government are plan Until tho Last November Moscow pro transfer of power, British re-ins an operation kỏ đạizm thứ

smaller islanda confirm the for in

The guard, a private, put a cartridge into his rifle, jumped into the room where the women and children were lying on the floor and ordered

const of the Bouil that been a "jiggy-koon," a luggagement Immediately

attack

And money and help under the Point to support the Afghans against Pennin coolic, on the streets of a town rifle

dating brak more than presenting his ta

the USSR. shoot.!

on neighbouring countries Four programme, called Won San. He had never

Briain the crangemente The Russian woman put her been to ochool, and "when would be considered a direct three

A Russiar technical mission Perala is further afield, and defence of those children in a Alo in front Russians of her and sald,

Ilberated our coun- attack upon India.

has already begun to build there the whole situation is against all coord "All right, (ry" he could not read or wille,

modern storage plant for wheat, balingly complex. Even so, shoot; you can kill us all with but ho accepted the new Any such

declaration The Afghans are asking Russia the Persian one bullet."

philosophy and now he was would mark not only a new for more help of this sort. The

guard was nonplussed. Threo-star captain, with He started, blushed and gradu- authority to sign death war departure in Indian foreign ally the barrel of the gun rants. He was the man In | policy, but also an inclina. · dropped and finally he sheep charge of our case when wation from the idealistic to ishly backed out of the room, were arrested! We were never asked to do PT. All guards had among their the realistic. And this was tested to Kabul about accepting latiens with the Gulf war; Bis of the present Britlač again!

small- possessions "ono or more | inevitablo If India were nob American help for developing fact, conducted by the Gov- Foreign Becretáry; METAL CAT

ollfelda in the Hindu Kush ernment of That is a picture of an uncer thick and heavy tomes of the to be at some time prey to Mountains and the Oxus Valley,

One of his Drst,aclipps on man, yes. It is not a works of Stalin, Lenin, Marx foreign invasion,

retuming to the Foreign""""Omica, The first form the geographical Insido Perzia the Russians" was to dopalch Sie Roger Making picture of a killer.

and Engels, which they studied

barrier athwart the route to immediate objects are unas lou: of the Tricial Comm And uncertainty was the key, most assidhiously.

that and out all that might be going? note

of their characters. They

Most interesting is the India; the second marks the clear; but it does com

they regard the Shah as an obes and to consider any metisre were unsure: of themselves. Engels, more than one or two list of countries to which Russian border,

stacle and Mossadegan 14 which. Beltain cught to take to They needed guidance. And guards Indiested a desire to India's "declaration shall The Afghans reacted by asking means to be rid of him. Not anticipate the sprend, of guidance of a kind-they got leave North Korou and exits refer. They are Burma, London [and] Washington': to, would It fail to ruit in_plenty,'!

the tainly in thirrerias breme if Persian Interest to the USSR HAVE It was clear that the way to allowed to cross the 20th line Siam, Afghanistan and promise support if the Russians Russians purpose

'protests were followed by more nationalist; ambitions in the delicate security promotion was by proficiency with us.

Persia.

aggressive, action. But London Gulf were lot loose,

tain

Yet in splic of Marx and

led a, hope that, they, might be

India.

contorna?