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Paris Newsletter

France's 'Madame Hillary

By William Roland

Paris.

HE highest woman

THE

in

the world has come down to earth.

It was back to work for Madame Claude Kogan, a petite Frenchwoman of 34. And the snapshots that Madame Kogun had to show in her bathing costume factory at Nice were more spectacular than most.

For she has spent her holiday climbing the mimmil of Nun- Kun, 23,410ft, high and the second highest peak In the Central Himalayas. No woman has ever conquered a peak that high before.

This

la "Madame Hillary" of France did what three British expeditions failed to do. And she did it without oxygen, after spending seven hours on the lant 2,000 feet.

the

There were seven members of the French expedition on the mountain. Of the six men, five were too exhausted by a battle with an avalanche to go to the top. Claude went on up with a Swis missionary named Vittoz.

"The last 100 yards were worst, says Claude, "We hud to cross a show bridge where the alightest mistake would

I an avalanche, start terribly thirsty because we hatt left our provisions behind to lighten the ad."

Side by side

WHA

Just before they reached the suinmit the nonary uuid: "Go ahead and be the there,"

"But we

found

there

first

was

enough room to allow us to get

to the top ade by

side.

We

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1958.

"Tolling me they will have bigger bangs than this in Australia next week is of small consolation, O wise one."

In the city

whose

streets are salt

two devoted women seek converts

London Express BORTION

THE CHAPEL OF THE SPREADING LIGHT

T

MERE in long- kong TE separate Home little city of ten thousand homes. the

0% hour. are

collected stanes to carry back to which lifts to meet our companions."

Claude and her companions Had some brandy before start- ing the final assault of the mountain. "We had a lot more

to celebrate enys.

our success,"

she

In the streets of Nice Claude wears kporis outflis), often trousers, never a hat,

'I like to explore' She has no time to do any ecoking, employs a housekeeper. When nerves got frayed with the worries of her business st goes off to ski in the mountains only two hours away.

like

Why do I climb mountains

Nun-Kun?" she sys

I ke *Because

to fight the I like to explore and elements. do things never done before."

Her blue eyes are already on next year's holiday. She thinks Alaska or the Rocky Mountains would make a nice change,- ng maybe Greenland, diment....

moon,

grows larger

with every Emaller and where the streets salt. It has doctors, many stores, a church that is well attended; and three muin streets and every home in It is afloat.

It is not generally looked upon as a city. Its name is Yaumati Junk Shelter, and the homes are all junks.or sampans, moored in long, that form the rigid rows salt streets between-all be- hind the mile-long wall that protects them from harbour winds and swells.

These people... make.

By Allan Prior

The Junk Church at Yaumati

Tsing Yuen. their Boat Mission

dnunts them.

They are begin

than most of the guesta do and is fantastically expensive when compared to the incomes of the famillos concerned. But "face" counts more than money....

ning to reap their. reward, for

So the life of the shelter goes people.now know them well, and converts are becoming a on Clark Gable mingling with rubber shoes litile casier to find. The school blind marriages, helps this part of the work, too, with wine-for-the-ancestors, electric light with joss-sticks But all the same the great burning in the prow-accepting majority of the shelter's vitality anything, changing hardly at all, of the perhaps but for the influence is spent in the old, Prasteful ways. They still Church in the venididips. lowly arow money and food mic the sending out the rays of a new

spirits, and spend philosophy.

the

Water dollars on religious observances, A bridegroom can

still spend the.

thousands of hard carned

rest of

his life paying off the expenses of his wedding. Most the marriages are blind marriages, and junks count for for more than love.

od

Practically all the

shelter's

needs are supplied by the people' who dwell there. There are fire- wood shops, fresh-water sampans, meaning by huwkes-sampant, huge floating Thro

Oriental hymns and their

sell every- that bought it, and heart, and they sing from the general stores

thing including pictures of Clark living in two ways by dishing since then it has served God, heart and it brings them peace-Gable, dry docks whero The

of heart.

campans and even some of the and by carrying cargo between riding at anchor. ship and shore. In the even-

Peace of heart-this is what smaller junks ere hauled up a before the

on to a roft to Uwey ings, however,

return for wooden ramp receive in

and. repaired, scraped their their moorings, to the place they Communists took over Canton

Taoist bo up giving know as Home, where they have the church had to flee to survive, cremonies,

the car-splitting, restaraunts, hairdressers, been born, where they marry,

waterways

dispelling clashing of massage-places, sall-makers all Girl from the Folies home they win die. Here It went down the

of joss-ofloat, all serving the junk then to sea, and cymbals, the burning

of Images,

cs, shelter only. they live, love, fall or succeed, southwards,

and the with no thought outside their finally to Hongkong. Many in sicke, the making

the community spirit Canton were the sadder for its

Somewhere

TERE is 1 new version of HER

working your way through college. Pretty 18-year-old Liliane Margolis, who gete £28 the A month for parading at Follca Bergere as one of a team of 12 mannequins, spends her days poring over medical books. She is in her first year of

training to be a doctor and she reckons it will be about seven before she becomes a gynaecologist, which

la her ambition. She has to appear every night the week at the

of twice on Sundays. Folles

Although her parents could not Anabee her studies they were at first strongly against her

front "of the foot Bights of Montmartre. They gave

In when it become clear that getting a job at night was the only way she could go on with

and

A few months they return to

work and this sheet of water cantere, like a ghest in the intense frost

of "belonging" religion gives. Visiting the shelter from the might, but N has brought the that the Taoist

Gentle Jesus is land side-Pitt Street, off Nathan Word to the water people of No more fear of the demons that

Youmat-the. Word and a new fill the airl Road-you see what looks like a

with them, and they feel that they are safe.

forest of pines, stripped bare of hope. branches, reaching out for hall

mile.

真

Dancing Waters shelter, where

مل

Inside, the noises of the world'

Avid Learners

Two Doctors

There are two doctors, & man and a woman. The man. Is the chief doctor. of the place and

qualified by

not

4.

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her career. Also, Liliane pointed i her fed and happy for a coupon. For if you are poor you they cram their heads with fact Taco they are apart, many com-

one-room

of days at least.

in

re-

"The Chapel of the Spreading

Six mornings and afternoons, although Light" it la called, and it rides at anchor in the centre of the of the week the fron bell clangs Western standards, being only Iron bell is call to more than a hundred an expert herbalist and dietician, can clang Re message round the children, who are taken over the has learnt by experience to line of water by their parents to receive treat everything and anything. water to the furthest boats, and call the followers of normal primary school education, from broken bones and decayed They pay the colossal fee of teeth to typhus, He has a blue At the bottom of one of the Christ to prayer.

painted junk not very far from $9.50 per term.

the church, with rows of steps in rows of steps that cover the wall

front .and.. waiting-room here lurk myriad seropaps wait-

decorated with college photo. ing for passengers, Hail one are not excluded, like churches of thom, and a woman with a built hundreds of years ago of

graphs. There is always The Lines family of four, or an old crone flirt and granita.

.queue outside his door. plain and pure. energy, will are simple, with astonishing

They are nvid learners, the

The Junk people have always

even been self-contained; propel you whither you will for bringing quiet to the hoort in

in a small foc sufficient to keep the hectic whirl of shelter life, Junk children. Realising acutely the life which the worshippers the advantages of education,

the traditioning from aboriginal stock. This cannot stay still, you cannot con- upon fact

wido, white grins, tomorrow's Chinese manner of leaming by shows in their wide, bony faces You set off over the dancing template, because your way hunger is too near.

rote. But they are grateful for and waters, shouldering

"prep" and swallow their books miniscent of South Sea Islanders, that knows no. through traffic

Their rocreations are few, for carnestly. laws, and the harbour unfolds like a book before you in ail

The two lodies seldom make their lives are inseparably inter- its beetle, highly

single converts; they make them mingled with their work, which by families or not at all. It is they have been learning since. into bang You industry.

The "Chapel of the Spreading impossible for a member of a first sight. In the evening some hawker-sampan barging its

way Light" is run by two devoted family to become a Christian on play instruments in a Intoning his along, is owner

Stephanie

of the hood of a cinema, or play mahjong far Czechovich, the displeasure warce, the chickens in the gally women, Miss Anne Heppner and his own, for besides incurring shore, or they go ashore to see

he would bo Im- painted coop in the back oc- one from Canada and the other the family casionally squawking a cocon from America. Both are from mediately and automatically out poniment.

the same continent where warm of everything and that, for hearts abide and which, since these people, is the height of You shoot suddenly into open the Puritan Fathers fled from misery But if the head of a PARISIANS who have been

to see the dim The Cruel water, and find you are in a salt intolerant England to keep their family becomes a Christian

street. On other side the huge faith, Sea" note a remarkable physeal junks

has cherished spiritual presto!-one whole Junk-family stretch their im- values with a foros pride. is Christian. For that reason between resemblance

Jack

there are more than a few clan Hawking and Prime Minister memorial shapes riding proudly, W

desting church-goers, - ... Lanial. Comment the cynics: rock-liko, on

van They are alike in another way

out, she was not required to appear in the nude, Liliana. shares basement flat in the shaduw of the Eiffel Tower with later Anne, 22, who is one of the 17 pretly "hostesses provided by the Paris Chamber of Commerce to help visitors, Says Anne:

ne: "There are hardly any touriste to help now.

We

sinnd about all day doing nothing. So I am trying to get a job as an air hostess'

Enter the cynics

are both in charge of ships cted by the waves nod in danger of being constant torpedoed

Ho and range of walls

A

Chinese Hymns

Miss

The

club on

into the night.

Long Wedding

They seldom marry" shore and most of their people

are arranged by a muringies matchmaker who lives near the the water, cons. These-two have left their

son wall A young man goes aelous of a thousand years with native lands, their friends and out change.

church is the ladies and soos this matchmaker him- have money they might"

home; it is where their work is, well, telling her the kind of girl canned in comfort, to come here, and there they stay. The big ship he wants to marry and stating in Then, if you like, you can go where, they are rich because makes namus. warm place to optimistic terms his fortunes and to church.

they have given and are giving live in. The wooden walls throw prospects. A description of him- so much. Ma

back a rich comforting colour, self is left with the matchmaker. Last stop

should be easy for you to join hymns

like, expensive paneling In A giri's parents do this service. are sung in

in Mice

Heppoer's room there hangs for her, but only if she expresses them a photograph of the Queen; in the wish to marry. All junk HUGE stone motor-bus is on other days, the services are Chinese, which maker

the singer, for both; their a ace girls express the wish to marry. the monument M. Jules not for all; they are confined to incalleibruce say the voc wooden texts and Bibles en If all parties dance & the Delattre, Valencienne

Christianis on- ruth the Chinese chier, has had butik, for himmelt

Sunday, you go on Inmandį you will: bowelcome.

bus

now!

Bokor

In the local obmetery. HIS epitaph: "Terminum, zrecybody

with the spooking tones of the Thưró árú:: no more than 300-roatch: la Pol Sanjay Language upon willch the moon Christiana 12. krukke kan blitvelle's

The church was once a ferrying so much depends & But it prouintion of 80,000 at down the wedding, le irabil

Canton to does not matter; "they know the, not dauntẽ thuố

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