HE URGES NEED FOR
MORE
A
CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS
By LES ARMOUR :
teams of highly- skilled welfare workers who found jus, sorted out broken homes, and met the fallen on their way in and out of prison,
BRIGHT-EYED, spry- the years passed, the Army looking man in a dark developeu blue uniform stepped Into a press conference in London the other day and announced that he was quitting his job.
He was too old and t O tied, he explained, and he felt the time had come to
eck pasture.
Announce-
The clipped ment In a crisp Canadian accent came as a jolt 10 everyone in the room.
The man Was General
General Osborn joined the memtee when it was in its infant days. He whd the Bon of H Twonto clergyman, unid he started work at 12 years as
close to chemist's resistant at nothing a weeks.
1. the Salvation Army (which he joined In 1900) he rose quickly and went through
Guccession
posla of top General Secretary Zad, chief of the
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Albert Osborn-his age A national Training College, Ter- mere 67, his job running the richat Comanander world-wide Salvation Army and finally,
organisation.
crul,
In 1940, top Gen-
MORE FIGHT
Over the years, his name
become has
synonymous with the long, tough "Sally Ann" war against poverty, crime, violence, and misery. etsinly changed, The very
General Osborn has per- sonally taken that fight to the farthest corners of the world.
It has been an uncompro- mising fight and one that would surely wear out any man. But General Osborn has never shown any traces
of the strain.
HE IS WORRIED
He
In those years, the Army has
fhet that it won its battles en- sured that. Poverty and misery wre
not nearly so widespread
and, LEI Britain at least. the need for hot soup is small,
a
And some of its member, no doubt, have come to prefer a more contemplative kind
ligion.
UL
But General Osborn puls up
he
strong esse for the pre figli He is not alarmed by today's youth-on The contrary. Munks there has never
been anything better-but he warns that the rising generation has
A
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1954.
Sunday. N hour ago, less than half a day before the case begins in court tomorrow, the tele phone rang. I picked it up.
and it was his voice.
"Nickie, darling, don't hang up on ine,** he said. "It has taken such a lot of trouble to find out where you are hididg. But WHY are you hiding from me? Why are you bringing this dreadful case against me? You know that I love you."
re-
That voice still hypnotised me-so pleasant and charm- ing, so soothing and merely afraid little time for good advice. was
Could evil and Words, he thinks, are large- | assuring. ly wasted on any wayward cruelty really mask itself in he is youth today. But "Their eyes such beguiling tones? move- are wide
врен 10 good "xample."
that he might begin to show signs of wear-and worried about his ment,
"We are not militant enough," he told the cou ference. "We must not be come a movement that set. tles down in halls and sings songs."
There is room, he believes, for a religion of action, and more of the much-sung "Chris then Soldiers" are needed than ever before,
lie thunks, too, that there is tou much
noise made
Was
PANIC
THE voice
saying: "Come home Nickle. about Or, at least if you will not come home, let us meet and talk over. I love you,
me sue you Nickle. Let tonight!"
At those
The Army has always together 100
movies and television and al- much talk about sung songs, but it has never bad examples. "settled down in halls." It "I seldom !o the movies," started In the wretched he admitted with a grin, "and complaint about
1
have no ielevision."
slums of nineteenth century England, among the "gln What Is mills" and stinking tene- ments.
It bought food and clothes along with the Gospel, and hot soup with Ita brass bands, As
"kicking"
needed is not but action. A few good examples,
General Osborn's view, are worth thousand conferences on the evils of the movies.
Inst
words I wrenched my mind loose from its coma.
Justration by ROBB
myself to be calmer: "It's no use Bristol, I've made up my mind to divorce you.'
"All right, my darling, if that is what you wish. But you will not get your divorce, Nickie. You see I love you and I don't want to be divorced from you. There- fure. I shall fight you in court-and I shall win."
At which I hung up on him in a panic once more.
OFFICIALLY
IN the petition which is to be presented in court to
down the morrow are set official reasons why I want
And then I knew-my husband married me to escape the gallows
DEADLY
SHE MARRIED
A MURDERER!
WEDLOCK
A WOMAN, A MARRIAGE, AND MURDER . . . THAT IS THE STORY NICOLA FORBES-TEMPLE, A FAMOUS MODEL, HAS TO TELL IN A NEW SIX-DAY SERIAL
By LEONARD MOSLEY
forget her her
her that she must silly infatuation. I told
I was in love with someone elso that I was going to marry you."
"Marry me?" I said.
my
"But didn't you guess, Nickle? I love you and wont to marry you."
Ho looked down 900 you WIN
This
reason why Bristol ever care, I was confident my love other night. Do please believe married me to silence me would with him away from them. I em soary. I must
One of the women was Lydia about Brtråd and explain. after I had seen too much. Clifford. She often come to the you
come to
eny house Because he knows the law, club with Belstol before I got to evening? There will be no coe and the law says that even know him-a hard, dark, sharp cher." if a wife divorces her hus- and nervy woman.
and she still cannot testify against him for anything he may have one during their marriage. So far as married life is concerned, a wife's lips are for ever sealed-in a murder case, anyway.
Which is why Bristol feels safe. All he had to do was marry me and I was gagged.
Or at least he thinks so. For he doesn't know that I have found a loophole.
It is two years
Doctor married Roberts.
since I Bristol
I was 24 years old and I
to be free of Doctor Bristol was marrying for love. Bri- Roberts. He has been cruel stol
WAS
a rising young
to me. I have charged: he doctor with
A Виссеньги! has tortured me mentally practice in London's West and
he physically,
has End. wrecked my nerves and ruined my life,
But does Bristol know- does he suspect-what my real reason is? That I know him to be a murderer and I want him arrested and hanged?
had a quaim of doubt about
I didn't know what to do. I the retaliceship between Bristol telephoned Bristol, but he was and Lydt one might though. I out. Finally, I decided to ga," walked up to him and took his 6:m. "Hallo, Garling." I std. She lived in car of those Then Lydin's
's hand shocked me dushionable houses just off down. "My property," she said,
Sicane Avenue in Chioclico, ali We all laughed and Belstel blue paint window-boxes, and said: "What am I, read estate?" chair railings.
I rang the bell But I noticed that he was worried but there was no reply. So I and that her nude were bling went round the back and walked
into his w.INA,
OVERHEARD
10.
When I got inside I could home the sound of taps cuning but but there was no reply.
into my you. "Mickit, darling, we have to get out of here. Did urry- one see you come to the house?” "I don't don't think so." "Then let's leave here, sweet- heart, before anyone comes."
Ke loosed me and went into the bathroom to replace the towel. Ho put on his overcoat, plcked the negligeo off the noor and staffed it his Iext
pocket. Just before We the room, he went over to the body and lifted up the hands and examined them, then let them drop on to the coveriel Then we went out together by
A FORTNIGHT Later, the tradh there was no one about, I called, the back door,
came out. By this time, I would go to the flat behind his deals and wait for bin until he
ad fintshot sargory.
There was no one about in the Bak, so I crossed the ball to go to
la constilling room. My hand was on the door when I heard Lydia Clifford's voice, rid of her,
"Get
Do you remember the Inquest on Lydia Clifford? Bristol gave evidence that Lydia was his patient, and that she was a
Finally, I wandered towards the sound of running water and was Inolting
neurotic with a heart condition, opened a door. I into a bedroom. And when
looked at the bed there
Her mousy husband testifed was
Bristol bending that she had been sleepless and over it. Lydia Clifford worried. Death from an over- wpe on it.
dose of sleeping tablets was the stripping verdict. Suicide while the bal- her negligee off her ance of her mind was disturbed.
TOMORROW
IN THE WITNESS BOX...
d'you hear?" she kept saying "I am warning you for the last time.
There was the low
of rumble
Bristol's voice trying to say soothing. broko in on him. "I tell you, I am not bluffing this time, Bristol. You have taken my money and ruined my charac- ter. But don't think I'm helpless, I can be dangerous.
I would be disingenuous something if I denied that I was a lovely young woman, for my looks were my profession. As Nicola Forbes-Temple I was one of the most famous models of the day,
Не
wan
and after he had done
it, he examined
and then dropped it
on the floor. Then he
took a towel, carefully
MARRIED
wiped her fingers and A WEEK later Bristol and
then drew the towel
verosy her mouth,
A
I realised, with hor- ror, that Lydia Clifford was dead.
In a dream I watched through the door white Bristol went to a
drets cupboard, selected
and Toughly bundled "You know the circumstances Lydia's arms into it and draped In which we came together, I'm it over her body. Then he dis- 4 married woman Bristol. I appeared into the bathroom. have a husband I can twist Prescotly, he COME months before we met I round my firæger. Get and of wiping his hands on a powel. is the worst kind of killer. had fallen tard, for the first her or I were it, I will report time, for a man. Then just when you to the Generat Medical I thought that the whole won- Courbill" dertut
world Was spinning
I am not being vindictive when I say that he deserves
in
to hang. For my husband
"No!" I shouted panle. "If you try to come here tonight, I shall call the police."
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He murders in cold blood: coolly, subtly, planned eliminations
carefully
awkward people who stand
in his way.
THE LAW
HIS CHARM
came
Out. Still
FIRST, FURY
face
of happily around his head and I After that, long silence. Then
was inside the world dizzy the sound of footsteps. Suddenly Slushed with sudden fury
sow me. His with adoren, he left me in the door opened sand thine was wind my esl down to drill Lydia Clifford. She tools one and he rushed across the room normality and dreariness again. look at me and went Ülvid with and gripped me. I thought he
crush hay. She lifted her hand and was going to And then Bristol Roberts come slapped me hand against the death. along. We used to run into each chedis, And then she went out. other in a club.
mo to
wore
licence.
I married by special
It was on our wedding night. that
noticed the deep scratches on Bristol's arms. But it was some time after that Lydia before I realised that Clifford's death suicide, that my husband had killed her, that Bristol Roberts
was a murderer.
had been
по
By then it was too late.
Bristol has killed again since we were married and once moré the world has never tuessed that it was murder. Nor will they ever know, for I am the and the law says that I cannot only one who could prove it-
testify. But Lydia Clifford's murder took place before we were married.
IC I get my divorce I am free — free to speak - free to acnd Bristol to the gallows.
Does he guess that?
Is that
And then he relaxed. "My Beistol explained everything, poor Nickie," he said, "to come of course. Ho persunded me that here at a time like this." Ho It was the Lactrum of a twisted gianced across at the bed, why he is fighting my case?. woman putiert. What a fool I sympathy on his face. This was I believed him.
foolish, stupid woman. How was I to know she was so much in love with me that, she would kill herself for me?"
HE has killed twice since I
have known him. Unless I can recall that I did not like I sensed that his I can stop him he will kill him at first.
chain was (bo effortless, smeared again and next time I am ke a go cum over his real sure the victim will be me. personality. For I am the only person in
Put my doutabs about him
I did not know that try mying the world who knows him
faded. Suddenly one night what she did, Lydia Clifford to be a murderer, who could losew I was in love with him, signed her Neath warrenyt,
provide the evidence that would convict him.
That I have to face the bitter fact — is the only
F
upside-down, escitically in love. How he must have grinned
It was a few days later that
No, he can't have gusesCd- yet. Otherwise, he would have killed me, am sure of it.
mo
Pray God that he does not ""Kill herself?” I repeated. trick me again and silence.
"Of course, he pild. Did for, jever, Fore case of I got A note from Lydia you hmagine it was anything". Roberts versus Roberts is not the way he had won me over! I knew I was not the only Clifford, know you will find else? She asked me to come just another divorce as I women in this lite, but I did not it hard to forgive me for the along tonight, frier I had told. Is a mover
A RICH
IN A POOR
London.
AMILY pride is a fine thing. It should be without price, Yet the Treasury subsidises It in big houses-but not in small.
this
The best way to look at atrange working of State charity is to study the case of Sir Doric Pillars, His name is fictitious. His background is true,
DILEMMA
MAN'S
MAN'S
By
James Bartlett
life and leak.
ENDS
BURDEN AI
interest or rai benuty, list £38,000 Lastough It valobes A 1.000 de peries Tideluc
300 farms) and pearly 200/100 jacres of land.
Without central heating the HE MIGHT adapt his house came from the income tax house is cold and draughty. for other purposes, such as con- man? That Malved. The But its account are judded Without enough gardeners, the verting Q wing into self- Treani y (and Sho bila will i damondands, aray of weeds sprout in the grounds.
"block stufe which denotesba Ton contained flats, or converting it revenul) must go without. not so rich that he can afford nos for the proud Sir Darie,
Sir Dorie is a rich man-but into a country club. No, no-
the uprip of buildings, It eats de trafi do a charity £6,000 a year to see up to
and the exemption of charities. Evan Jia · 200,000 that was-a So he turns to the National frontaxation is a long wab->gift from the Treasuroho draining away just to keep the
Trust. It home going,
hag n wonderful lished principle.
truit in 19407 jis ngje alarly all Even that is not the biggest scheme...for people like Bir
He is nagged by fear Dorie.
old
Worry.
The trust, which has to keep show-places show-worthy,
I baked at the National T. of what will happen when he All he has to do is to transfer offices: How do you fix the dics. The house will have to be his house to the National Trust boundary between the personal its Sir Dorle lives in a large sold to meet death dulles-and together with property that will needs of the tenant's family and has inherited the headache that country mansion that has been his wife and three grown-up bring in enough money for an the neods of the Trust?"
tha
Pillars family home for sons will have to, move. seven generations,
/Sir Doris keeps up a public pretence that he is just as on- thusiastic about · his home
AS
aro all the o
it so laviily,
endowment fund to keep the
house "self-supporting."
THEN, he and his fondly will
The
used to bothor Sir Doric.
In thousands of the smaller homes of Britain, live elderly folk who are just ed harassed by bis dilemma.
be able to stay on rent fret, For instance, who paye for living as they have always done, the vegetables from the kitchen'
But there is no rent-free outsiders who praise Now what can ho do?
onlymas is that the garden that go into Bir Doric's
Who' ́ pays for the escapa for them from a bene-. HE MIGHT throw open his house will have
to be open to kitchen? house as a showplace to visitors the public at certain times, say wages of the gardener tending volunt Treasury Tiny know they must depend on Privately, he knows that the at 2s. 6d, or so head. Even on Wednesday afternoons dur- the flowers that will decorate that
themselves and their own family' old country seat is just a pain dukes and marquises have not Ing the summer 6. In his cheque book. There are been shy of adapting themselves and Baturisten den kursdays Sir Dorle's home? always repairs, repairs, repairs.
All mich detalls, I was assured, to keep a roof over their head- It is a small price to pay terre azet before the Nation or else, out they must, som
a bargain.
Trust takes over the house. · Ef
The State charity towards the
and the endowment fund, vidling cars, the trust haps to torical humbug!" But none of it
Showman of England,
or
10 new postwar rule se 100 hen he dies both the servants act as publié guides on' 'big' housey. Hidos a lot of hism `
Inside the house with lis 20 or The Duke of Devonshire, for en bedrooms (most of them instance,
had more than empty) Lady Fillary and three 175,000 visitors
..... part-time domestic: kirvants are time flocking to Chatsworth hard-pressed to look after the House last emilyy portraits, the antique But Sur
will escape death dull and pay their wages. Otherwise, approved ides that public
Cia moi distasteful as this Treasury- remain as Home "for
for his Bir porte must pay the
would have to what about the property tior. Now the National Trust, a the tax on ownership of property furniture, the carpets, tapestries, spend a lot of money to make that Bir Doric used to, grymble voluntary body that endeavours must be sacrificed to "-hold and upholster /
hile home-showwworthy
about, weity, yeke i Wink side bill to preserve plaem oz. mitorio smally falde fel a gam
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