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JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK

Terence's Snack

was one of those Lon-

Iden restaurants where

people go as much to be seen as to eat, and where, looking round, you feel no Woman would be served who was not beautiful, no man allowed the privilege of a table, who Was handsome, rich, and well- connected.

Above the restaurant towered

a block of flats. The tenants

CHINA MAIL

Established 1845

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1954.

HITCH-HIKING AROUND THE WORLD IS A WONDERFUL ADVENTURE

says TIMM NOLTE, who is doing

it and has now reached Hongkong

Imagine a young man with a burning desire in his heart to see the world, and in his pocket no more money than can just see him through only until next sunrise,

Imagine him taking a decision to set out on his globetour with no chance of any great change happening inside his pocket. Crazy, isn't he? And imagine the same man after a lapse of nine months, standing under an exotic sun as far from his home town as 7,000 miles away in India, or later in Hong- kong after having covered a third of the Earth's circumference,

That's me, Timm Nolte, twenty, an only child, leaving Dusseldorf, West Germany, in March 1953, on foot, determined and undaunted, and now writing from Hongkong.

The flats, of course, were +1 people of distinction, and if they Yes, I dal 1. and I will go on did not wish to eas in pubile intui I complete the

BY

chreukt.

the restaurant, or cook up summe-making my way back hunc their | Maybe it will take me a little thing for themselves luxurious kitchenettes, they lover five months more to do 11. could pick up a telephone and but I will do it. And you don't order whatever they fancied

be sent up from below.

to

have to think I am kidding, not that it is impossible, because i am the fr one to sit here and THE HAPPY MAN

tell you tlant did 11. Others BAT accounts for the presence have done it, and I know many THAT

such surroundings of such will do R. But I only wish to I a wunderful feeling prosaic food at

and say it is the han

rahove hitch-hiking all the way were cheese sandwiches which

from West Germany to India. were

Te ence's undoing. They cut and kept on hand against My tour makes me richer every domanda that tenants night day

with experiences encke for #nocks in the mall every minule from it.

hours.

ones

fic

he

ONLY THE BEST

from " Lin

1 guin

TIMM NOLTE

H

don't know how my journey will end. But that does not in the least make me afraid of the future.

shell be leaving Hongkong fo: Japan in a few days,

The belief in human kindness that I have experienced on the way gives me courage and

strength.

Colonials'

Behaviour Criticised

A

It is wonderful to be in new surroundings every day—every Terence worked in the kitchen- mile of hiking brings something world that began ime:itately new to your eyes. Here, today, you passed through the silently-]] am trekking over snow-laden swinging doors from the restaus Alpine heights, freezing in the rant. In the elaborate protocol cold, and not long after that I which operated in this world, he

am in the midst of a desert. jow rated fairly

was

standing the heat of the blazing had a chance to know various

London, Jan. 11. kitchen porter.

stin overhead, with the hot sand peoples of the

world. I a A judge today criticised under the feel.

cosmopolitan, at lengt, I believe following But being more or less con- | Lin

of British Tony 1 am taking. I also believe that in every hundreds fented with his lat, he was caravan,

of this world. Irrespective colonials who with mats

to came happler man. it may

le, then my ditiner

with of colour we creed, there is Britain and eked out some of those more successful friends, and the next day

for whom

in Yugoslavia, cusmopolitan, even though peeled an ukt tarmer

he living of financial help pro- has not walked out of his hene | runsted potatoes and potatoes and washed up pintes, eating

*town milk, and the next time bread town in all his life. That cos-vided by national assistance

has ብ love and and unemployment relief. and dates with a Bedouine, and mopolitum

the hot Indian fellow the next time

feeling

extend to Justice Sellers was speaking London's Old Bailey, after every other Itle time

man whenever he at the matter of weeks at this rice and sweet-sour-pork withi approached. This is the man

central criminal court where restaurant. Terence had properly a Chinese family in Hongkong, who wants to love and

James August Williams; 31, a F1%E raught the spirit of the place. It is

that native of Lagos, Algeria, was a feeling words can not humanity. It is this man The spirit that said. "Only the describe.

has made my journey a joy for from a young woman.

found guilty of stenting £2 best is good enough for our

ever, and falsified my father's

Williams, In evidence, customers."

A: I made my way through ears that I should be obstrugled he had been In England .eight When, therefore, the other evening, he came upon the sand-countries over plains and hills, valuable lesson that I learnt. wiches, four of ham and three through deserts and forests, ace-

lands and meetfag) of cheese, and realised they had strange

people been cut all of two days, fer strange

with strange seized lum that they might, in manners and customs. I learned

things. Tu the many

truth, I learned more of history,

and architecture. geography

days

ALTHOUGH he had been only food, and a

error.

אן

served

customers, although they were not quite fresh.

HIKED AND LEARNED

speak

the

To prevent the danger coming have learned more about orchl to anything. Terence

pocketed tecture during these

the sandwiches. He was searched 1 did from

the left

night.

MEALS ON THE HOUSE

E was told the ham were 23.

most

than

thuse unnumbered

100

the

B

I

Toast

said

#1

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

10.04

"Isn't it a beautiful stole. George? And It's reasonable, too, when you consider how much you spent adding that new parch to the house!"

Goodwill Gestures Despite Fighting In Indo-China

Hanoi, Jan. 11.

The arrival in Hanoi of 207 of the 300 prisoners released by the Vietminh on the anni versary of the Tonking uprising on December 19, 1946, and news of the reciprocal goodwill gesture by the French commander in liberating a batch of 300 Vietminh prisoners, highlighted the Indo- China war front events today.

NEW PUISNE JUDGE

Mr Justice Gregg Arrives

SHEAFFERS

Skrip

The Hon. Mr Justice James Reali Gregg, QC, newly appointed Puisno Judge for Hongkong, ac- companied by Mrs Gregg, arrived hera in RMS Corfu from Southampton this morning to take up his appointment.

cm board the Cortu to greet Mr and Mrs Gregg were the Hon. Mr Justice T. J. Gould and Mrs Gould, the Hon. Mr Justice C. W. Reeco and Mrs Reece. Mrs A. Ridehaigh. wifo of the Hon. A. Ridehalgh, QC. Attorney - General, Mr G. S. Edwards, Secretary to the Hon. Chiet Justice,

and

Mr A Alltree, Head Bailiff.

hla

Mr Justice Gregg was Pulane Judge in Nigeria before appointment to Hongkong was the approved by Her Majesty Queen in August last year.

Judg

Born in 1889, the new Pulsne War educated at the Royal Belfast Academy In- stilute and Harvard and Cam- bridge Universitics, He

Was Arst appointed to the Colonial Service as a Police Magistrato in

St Vincent

1929, and has since served in the Gold Coast, Nyasaland and Uganda, where he became Attorney-General in 1933.

from

OTHER ARRIVALS Arriving

Bombay was Mr A. Donald Miller, General Secretary of the Mission to Lepers, accompanied by his wife, Mrs (Dr) Marjorie Miller.

Mr and Mrs Miller have been on a tour of the Mission's work

in India and other countries and will be spending a few days in Hongkong before proceeding to Japan. They will visit the Hay Ling

Leprosurium and

Chau

address meetings.

Another arrival was Sénator James A. MacKinnon of Canada

suro trip

and

Ship Sends Out SOS

1

Manila, Jan, 12.

An unidentified Vossel, presumably the French Inspector Toyyanne, at o'clock local time this morning sent out an SOS due fo broken down generator Iroables,

3363 vessel trave 'her position

12.03 don ToCS north and 100.43 degrees east, somewhere near Cape Badarang Hay, south of Indonesia.

The 808 message WILD intercepted by the Marine Biatlon in Indonesia and relayed by KCA- France-Presse,

Was

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 By Air Indo-China, 0 p.m. Thalland. Pakla Middle East,

& Europe,

Africa, Great Britai

p.m.

By durface Maco, p.in.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

By Mir Philippines, Quam, U.S.A. & Canada, 8 a.m.

Indo-China, .. Formosa,

12

Rawail

Japan. U.S.A. &

Canada. 1 p.m.

Japan. 6 p.m. Formos, 0 p.m. Thatland, Malays. Intonesia, Aus tralia, New Zeeland, 6 p.m.

By Burface Chine, People's Republic. 8.30 .m. Macao, a.m. N. Borneo, .. Farmors,

Ba.m.

Japan, Canada, Noon, Malaya, 2 p.m.

Macao 6. p.m.

Mid-

Britain &

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14 By Air India, Ceylon, 9 a.m.. Thaand, Burma, Pakistan, dle East, Africa, Great Philippines, 11 .. Japan, Nocn. Indo-China, Noon, Formosa, 1 p.m. Guam Hawally Canada," 1. p.m.

Formosa

With the Vietminh pincers closing in on the fortress returning from a month's pica-Europe, 10 a.m. of Dien Bien Phu, 125 miles from Hanoi, and with the e

to Indonesia Singapore. Senator MacKinnon, focus of military attention still concentrated on Savan- who

Minister of was former nakhet, 380 miles to the north of Saigon in central Laos, Trade and Commerce in the the reciprocal release of the prisoners of both sides shed

Canadian Government for 10 a friendly light on the bitter Franco-Vietnam and Viet-years, is salling for home in Canada, an minh struggle for power.

The Franco-Vietnam prisoners were teicased from camps on the Vietnam - Chinese border. All had to be given hospital trood- Errival, Immediately the French after their arrival, commander, announced the return

a similar mamber of Vietminh of prisoners.

There has been sharp fighting

Boycott Decision

was

the as President Cleveland to- night.

Meeting the 72-year-old Senator this morning were Mr Fletcher, T. R. G.

Canadian Government Trade Commission- Mrs er in Hongkong, and Fletcher, Mr M. B. Blackwood, Assistant Canadain Trade Com-

in missioner

Hongkong. M D. 8. Armstrong, Canadian Government Trade Commission-Dr er in Singapore, and Mrs An- strong, and their two small daughters, Deanne and Susan.

nakhet wher: patrol activity on High Commission in London Five Russian

A spokesman for the Com- mission confirmed that the Frilanka Party had adopted the boycott motion, which was pro- posed by the Party's leader, S. W. Bandamalk, a former Minis- ter.

Diplomats Here

of

U.B.A. the

Okinawa,

Japan..

PROBABLE NOMINEE

Calcutta, Jan. 11. India is expected to nominate Radnabinod Pal to fill the vacancy in the International Court of Justice caused by the death on November 30 of Jus- tice Benegal Rau, the newspaper Amritabazar Patrika reported today.

The Calcutta juflat was a member of the International Military Tribunal for the For East which in 1948 passed Judg Five Russian diplomata the now defunct Russian diplomcat on Hideki Tojo and other

war Japanese

criminals. Ho matic mission in Tokyo, arrived

Wrote

opinion, e dissenting here this morning from Tokyo holding In the Danish liner Manchuria gulity of war crimes.

that they were пос en route back to Moscow.

the Con-

on the way. This is the most

years, having come first តន HUMAN TOUCHES

student.

He had been Shall 1

employed by forget the old man of Yugoslavia who watched me on

the post office from December the road for more than an hour

1940 to June 1953 and from June until September last year to make sure stranded for

I would not had been drawing 32s and 6d want of a brey

a week in unemployment money Actually I waited all the after-

and 17s and 63 National As- noon for a lift and saw no sistance. truck going my way. When he

Conditionally discharging him | ment was sure, he came down from Mr Justice Sellers commented: by Just that volumes in the library, the restaurant

his hillside house and invited

CROSS AND LAZY The sandwiches were making use of my eyes,

me to shelter. Bul

"He is a member of the Bri- the '''; found in his pocket. The police

exciting is adventure

hitch-hiking was so delighted and mushtish Commonwealth and quite that were called.

moved. by his goodness, and entitled to get his money while

London, Jan. 11. Next morning. Terence, at means, You have no definite aescrupanied him. Of course not making any contribution to

All publle meetings and the Great Marlborough

no choice of he had Street, route, you have

no palace to offer ine. the well being of the communi-

en several fronts during the past receptions which her Majesty pleaded guilty stealing seven transport: even you don't know

How but the single room which was

24 hours, although no large-scale her visit to Ceylon will be boy. the Queen will attend during sandwiches, valued at 14, Ud. sometimes if you will get any bed:can sitting room, kitchen

Pasty. "What?" asked Mr Rowland transport. Everything is un-

lle seems rather cross, lazy operations have taken place. cotted by an Opposition Party, Thomas, QC, the magistrale; | certain, and you know only the and living room all in one, with and seems to be pretending he there more furniture than a stove, is learning, but does nothing to "are sandwiches two and some- I present moment,

The focus remains on Savan-Frilanka (Freedom), it and are pre-a a chair, and two wooden benches, the unkeep of the state. thing each these days?"

pared for

anything to happen was more than a palace to me. It

both sits has produced a war "He is the next moment. Uncertainty is the heart that matters, not the

not the only one.

movement. is the only

about this house in which

There ore It is. How

hundreds up and reality tour. Naturally it means dan-relished

who country

come humblo dishes down the

Several parachute drops have difficulty is:

composed of

over here

work for a short been and

made by the Franco time and for the rest of the Vietnam forces at Savannakhet, I was time manage modern-world Odyssey.

to keep living by with the old man fo: 1wo and a being maintained by the facill-

which is rapidly assuming Most difficult was obtaining half days, and helped him in

strongly fortified appearance. on the policeman in charge of

my father's consent. Well, be more the case.

Other Oppoaition Parties in washing dishes, rebuilding In this country.

SHOWING FIGHT WOOD,

Ceylon had not yet issued any "His wages were £5 0s, id, a didn't at first give it, but when wood, an one way by chopping tles available for those who live The whole thing is very un- nake me believe| chicken shed, bringing flowers couldn't worker in the

In other battle areas,

resolution In connection with sound economically and morally;

mats said that they would bo, I would be kidnapped on the and that sort of thing,

the royal visit but it would not thundered

Vietminh have been And I remember that day in exceptionally cut: "We

unsound because

leaving the Colony today or to- showing be surprising if their attitude icrees have

morrow by train. They would brought you up to be a man, Avignon when I was completely they lead a lazy life, do nothing fight. Ther

been went as far as total boycott, continue their diplomatic broke.

I was trungry. it is true. The

hotly I return and are kept,"

engaged

of w north-east allowed to go out and prove it

the spokesman said. door is wide open."

ed to the

vices in Moscow. In another court in the same youth-hostei, and

Phantle! on the southern

He left unanswered a ques- tho

He said also that there were fired the hall where I found bullding, Recorder, packed up and away I went.

Str Annam coast, whero consider-

tion whether a boycott polley girls, two Belgian Gerard Dodson told a coloured. able crossed Switzerland, Italy, had two English

war material

bren by

Bill Opposition Parties Tokyo.

many others remaining in captured.

might have any effect on my entry into Yugoslavia via girls, and one German girl sitting an in the dock "I think you

the The diplomats said this was Trieste and thence to Greece. 1 at the

taking lable Ind

are a dange: to the community". their Edward Barnes, 27, was ten-

In the north, the Vietminh Programme mapped out for the their first visit and dinner out of their cwn tins.ienced to five years gap after

to Hongkong, through Turkey passed

vice is closing in on Dien Bien that the number of Opposition their names.

royal visitors but emphasised but Syria and stopped at Basrah, came in and just kept en looking

they refused 10 Tovoal Iraq. From Basrah 1 worked my at the foca. They looked at me. being found guilty of Ave charges Phu, but no large-scale fight-members in the Ceylon Farila- passage across the Persian Gulf and found my eyes fixed on the of endeavouring to obtain sums ing has been reported.

Pakistan. Later I food. Suddenly one of them said, totalling £383 from four football the accrats of the Ireland he fellured all of India, Writing!"O come on, have your dinner pool ecmpanies, using falsely

articles I paid a simple passage with us!"

date-stomped betting letters,--- That was lovely.

China Mail Special. IN THE DESERT 10 Hongkong.

And the day when I stood dis- DIFFICULT JOB "6 CH," Terry said, "them

the vast Syrian UNION BOSS It would be a dull affair to mayed, seeing

even, was SHOUTED DOWN days or to; we could naver've give an account of the route desert before me. Here, in the

came by which would be mere- midst of the desert

Het the cheere 15, ehemper. Her and dine interesting as pointeef, milk and eggel

"There are no previous convic- tons against this man,

week, and as a

went

kitchen, he got his meals there,

he

I understand the staff are allow way, ho

ed to eat what they like, on the premises, but not take food out."

eat what they

"Well, more

or less,"

the

Moc Thomas nsked

what he had to say. He

Tech

is

"Allowed to

like?" the magistrate esked.

officer said.

dark, slight men, with a panca-

thin maustiche, a crew cut, and

12 years ago.

HIS PRIDE

asfrved them."

could have them?"

10 Karachi,

ly a list of place-names known Pome human heart that enableti

ם -

treasure

tho

The is

answer.

The

has

the

the

that the plan

ment was much lower than the Moanwhile, on the political majority.

Observers here belleved to- front, the formation of the new Vietnam

under night that rumours government Prince Buu Loc was expected Queen might abandon her to be completed

to visit Ceylon were groundless. or Tuesday,France-Presse, It will be formed of ministers-seven from southern Vietnam, five from the north and two from central Vietnam. The investilure is scheduled to take place in Saigon on Thursday,France-Presse.

New Complaint By Pyun

Seoul, Jan, 12. South Korean Foreign Minis for Pyun Yung Tot, in a state- ment today, attacked the Indian

He said that under the terins

Last November, 0:39 On arrival, one of the diplo-

Bor-

Radio Hongkong

gress Party nominee, he lost to the Communist candidate in the Parliamentary by-election for the Southeast Calcutta ecnati- tuency.----United Press.

6 To Hang For Crimes

4

Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 12.

A woman and five men are to hang for crimes against the ter- rorist

Emergency regulations H.K.T..

after the Federation of Malaya Time Signal and Programme Court of Appeals here, rejected Summary: 6.07, Melody Blac: 450, The International Out their pleas. Jook-A Talk by the Rt. Hon. An

The woman thony Eden, Secretary of State for Ah-lan, who was caught in pos

is pretty. Lam Foreign Affairs (London Relay);

land

with the

Carrying arms Is an offenco

4.45, fer Majesty The Queers open session of a hand-grenade when * special Deation of the New Zea- captured last year.

Parliament. Her Majesty's Speech from the Throne, and a Description of the Ceremony at punishable by death under the Parapent House, Wellington Lon Emergency regulations, which don Relay); 850 Weather Report: were framed in 1948 to combat 1. Time bigoal, World News Lon Communist terrorism. don Relay): 7.10, News Talk. (Lon-

The Malcolm

In 1952 another woman

"Why didn't you ask if you to one and all. What will re- which I would not have dreamt in London and 24d, in the pro-

it, and int to cross

but for (Continued from Page 1) "Well, you see they only 1st main as

of

here

today to write inces. ' being how I of the journey, you ate two-t'ree teim:s a day." memory

this. I found a couple of trucks at all reached Hongkong, sounded aggrieved. "Ove hitch-hiking all

After that they will go back way to In the desert getting prepared never done nothing lotke steel in

to start. They belonged to the to their "querilia" teetles, which nights India, sleeping my

under

Iraq Transport Company. I ap- empfehle to go on till the Meet Tomorrow custodial force for segregating don Harjus for Hyun artericed to treba at por for me Icife." mail fight," raid Mr Theme, strange shelters, depending on roched the people to ask if employers give in. "I'll discharge you. But you the hospitality of people for my they would give me a lift across employers have threater-

non-repatriate prisoners who: Interlude Rhythm said they wanted to go to BECTS) 150, Foreta a real difficult

Lockyer Quartet the same must pay a quines ecats, to re- meals. It was

Seoul, Jan. 12.

same offence. but her sen- mind you not to take things, that good deal of young spirit and

I tell you, and it takes a the desert. "Why not!" was the ed to lock out strikers. The

unions in turn have

Favourites | VIN neutral nations. promised A United Nations spokes-

London" "Relay) 4. La DentHeura lince was commuted to Life in-

noise "(Studio};" #30, First Hear prisonment, vel. I shall not forget the their men strike pay for ur long mas said today that the Mill of reference of the armistice con't bring to you."

ing cresented by. --Demand Ricks oblig-

Idealism to "Sure." Terenss said,

Iron Curtain countries made make hitch-hiking hospitality of Dr Sinha and his at the dispute cat

Armistice Commission

(Budio); 9, Time Signal. Basical spite of the family in Calcutta. It was this

Tho Lebcur try. He went cff. The sand- interesting in

Minimar, Birry

prisoners' requests would meet at 11 am,

Notebook wented by the now an offer to excimenge local agreement. Walter Monckton, due back in tekin wights

cut. No dificulties. were

who helped m London tomorrow after a holi

neutral country Father T. Payan, B.J. Gaudio): weptives, to save bie lifa. timo, tomorrow to "discuss the should be I love my hike, because of its go friend

handled only after 30. The British Overseas-Kii• erder was made for their dis-

prisoner of war question."

terrorist who thay roverted to civilian status | chener at Khartoum, PA Panetrem | Ko The have found at to collect the finances for an make a firm bid to try to get

Chong Chlap-hin, a programme written and produced by was called by old now. Perhaps the failway thing which

air-lift to Hongkong.

the Communists,

Mr Pyun wald it would be David CPA gave both sides to reach'a settlement.

Delny Tenors) former member refreshment-rooms would be in- ways on the way: It is the in-ir-

"highly improper if the Comerz 101 Ahe Balle band who had to Hongkongs me very fino reduction, Reufer.

the Military Armisile munists hoped to delay prisoners nature of vited to submit tenders for their herent good

These V: Cornared) Hodiny (fine. Commission yesterday

FAILA)

in koneet Ansermet condus Terrories by border patrol as captured ho New the releass by resuming, the pre- which was revealed to me sa 1 cause I am on the way home pureter,

from the International Student

In 'orchestre United Nations rejected Com liminary talks,

soprano yaleeg je 16300, he were sewing to get thio Com- Congress In New Delhi,

Werther impor 11.17ime Bumi (munist China --And | Was ~!ex- Bano News Bání (Record London tradited to Bingspore

poral. They would be three days difficulties, and, of course, some arranging speeches for me day In Spain, is expected to

M

Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GRINHAM, FOR have still a long journey" to and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-# mike. I am not sure' what 'in Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, } waiting for me on the way.

**What's' Har Lina ??. Solution

RESEARCH WORKER' - Landen Kayreti Beratinė

At

to go to

+

Western

beerorist

munist requests for a delay in The prisoner rejesse, pro- the. release of non-repatriate gramine should not be delayed, prisoners and five a remimption by political conference? dodane me comes; 12,40, Cocheresa of carrying arms. of explanations-Reuter,

Reuter