1954-03-11 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1954..

EVERYONE has at one time or another asked the question: WHATEVER became of those people I used to know?

BERNARD WICKSTEED

did more than ask-he

went to find out

ANYWAY.

CONNIE

RECALLED ME

Brisbane.

- AND QUITE A PARTY RESULTED

Can you imagine? The Brai walked

AM now about to re- veal И fascinating chapter in the early Prison 4

life of Bernard Wichsted wee

DAY WILD

and the k velopment of he the welfare oflice- Brith Empire.

Between the years 1922

and 1980, 4,000 likely inds, of whom

Wieksfeed

WIT Mezit

Alison s'uni into

faimer:

WILA

Dut

Were

1. abttugration centre this has Change Clayton,

She Baud -You haven't

I said: "Well, 3 years but you haven't 20ged much." clonged much either."

Secretary

W34

i.t

We nol criminals, orphans, or 4,000 foundlings - just

Connie, who wan a migrant healthy boys in search of hom London herself are, got adventure and fortune.

• Beporter Wicksteed sayu : Can you spot me as a young navvy helping to build a rall Way in Queensland 21 years ago? There I am in the middle of this snapshot from the past.

Uten because his twin brother could not come to Australia 100, An old I remember it so well. woman had to comfort him un the train down to Tilbury.

done all right. Well, he has He arrived for the party in a rich-looking American car.

goods,

His Twin

Queensland CL.D. He is from Herne Hill, London, S.E., and carne out in a later boat than I. He started work in a London because office and came here he wanted an open-air life.

party at the Another man Wits Jerry Thomas, who is a director the secretary and of a men's clothing store. He other and Risch "know each well. They belong to the same club, but neither knew before that they had more than that in common.

leave He

to Kangaroo Peint when I passed

Brough, and though she does TIE has a shop of his own, be turned for all cat 400 beys H being In

silics Dod soft Str uelped to deal with, she has

the best part of Follower 12:0 forttowed

Brisbane.

I cannot

out Sandy laundreds,

He a fruit farm, a town

caino from Robertson. house and another at the sea-

he was 17, side. He has five children and, Edinburgh when

milking and after four years not, len monu

his twin cows and droving cattle in the 30 years, ago, after brother.

west he took up, of all things, who WAS

head-

ballroom dancing. master in Essex, came

and Joined him.

Wieksteed found plenty of both at least 1200 put it the bul retard quate fortune at 19

NOR

In 31 years

I wo glomats.

years he galloped alot horseback, cracked whip stret kangaroos, chopped down free.

thela end Belped t Then he left la tee what the of the wind had to for rest and has had fun anding rats eve since

150

In the 31 you to intervened have often wet- 14 dered whn happened boys who stayed belt. The week have been Anding out

The first step was to call at the uld inmigration rentre Kangaroo Point in Esbane.

We were so wild a cair day that they bolted un

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and left us there bill to aag. Farmers and the wives used i come out to the renter and feel our muscles and lusk at teeth. Then they would av fo G take the man in charge that one."

Włeitsteed was one of the last this shida, d to go. In 31ng he was never about when farmers called.

the

Under the impression that he in the "Colones“ wa, insup-

portable unlea you went aboial

heavily armed, he had bougi

a 22 revolver and spend met

MAVE in the New Year

believe it or enomas and is Bog to receive i from the Queen this month.

Reunion

the help

"

Dave

1. angland. 11:4 migration tvpetog, Connie gat busy on the telephone, and the next day we at a reunion party that would have done you Rust to There were not many farmers in it because they lived too fav way attend. but those who and turn up were a proef that well boys i search of adventure cam bah out good citizens.

Thers was Bert Gartium, who tament n the same boat as I

the old Hobson's Bay, He was only fourteen then and he cried on Fenchurch Street ata-

EX

"After 1 Jeft you." he told

"I was

sent to at sheep station out in the west, that day they made me kill a sheep to see if i was tough.

Never Danced

Bad He

al

"By the time I had Bnished I was covered with blood, Frying because i thought I had hurt the sheep."

He stayed out west for four years, and then come to Bris- bune as a butcher. Now he s In soft goods, and doing mach better

than Wicksteed ever will.

Then there spector Cyril

was Police Risch of

*DON IDDON'S

E had never danced in his when he came to Queensland as a farm learner. Australian but he WOR championship, and now he has a dancing school that is busy teaching people how to dance at the ball when the Queen comes.

We sought adventure, and we have found it in many field.

Dave Longland wants to get tlant Queensland boys scheme In- going again, and I don't wonder.

-(London Express Service)

the

DIARY ⭑

WOMEN MIGHT SAVE

U.S. FROM MCCARTHY

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have had a lessness" which commentator dispatch-case, MERICANS

Now he does not often refer mere than enough of Waller Lippmann warns about?

as "President People here are apprehensive to the President violence. All last week and some are fearful--the men Eisenhower" ut

Eisen- "Mr than the were violent words more 50

women. It hower" but usually says in an "Eisenhower off-hand manner, and Eisenhower," from and

and 1" or now and again "Me

every McCarthy works

day him-poses, in now-no golf for

seems to me,

of the day shooling rats on the there river lank

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I have intich

The ten days that shook the New World and astonished the

Most discussed

HE is by any odds the most dis-

Old are past and the ofteial at- cursed and written about titude Is that the McCarthy mon in all America, a vilain to Stevens "incident"

closed. millions and a hero to other Some incident!

millions. This

was a major bid for

so far and so He has leapt the junior power by

Senator fast in four short years that from Wisconsin and it came off distinguished military writer to a large extent. This was a Hanson Baldwin asks solemnly: surrender by the Administra- "Who commands the tion, and it was abjeci.

Carrying on

forefront In the Ogden Reid, chairman

cre Mrs

Army? and answers: "Whether President Eisenhower realises it or not

is McCarthy

flow Senator sharing with him command of the Army."

Next

to

week, no doubt, the ПODAY the unhappy family in Senator will take on the Navy.

the capital is looking the

the Air Force other way, but the women and and then maybe children are carrying

the and the Marines. Nothing and no one are too big for him baltic.

tackle.

what of President And of the

General of the Eisenhower, leading Republicun newspaper. Army

Elsenhower? Не is the New York Herald-Tribune,

ติ bewildered and obviously which says: "The fight must

with the Ko on":

Schiff, saddened man who, Mrs Dorothy

the battle and

proprietor of the New York assistance of his advisers, tried

O'Hare

Thompson, Doris Ficcso11, Professors Max Lerner

and

Mr Elsenhower

Post:

and Mrs Agnes Meyer, to keep out of

then

and at second- belatedly wife of the chairman of the

hand issued Д statement Washington Post.

"backing" his Army Secretary These

determined ladies. Stevens through the Press assisted by commentators Anne

McCormick, Dorothy Secretary, James Hagerty.

be must just what has and wondering

A fortnight

ago Robert Hutchins and their happened.

going everything appeared to be students, are in the front line well for him, his prestige and in the war against McCarthy,

popularity wero higher than They expect to win.

ever, and he seemed to be very Behind

them, passing the much in change when McCarthy ammunition and occasionally struck again and won again. Aring a gun, are Arthur Hays Sulzberger, whose New York Times called the development

Chief speaker

"A domestic Munich" and TVEN now It is doubtful McCarthy's committee "a Star whether the Eisenhower Chamber, and

group of Administration will make

editors

4

Welcome Neguil

Sabotage

"Would you say

that was an embrace of affection or of prudence?"

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Admiralt

disturbed

Airman sentenced

FRIGATE DAMAGED

asked

4 years' sentence on stoker

Mr. W. 3. Howarda, Civis Lord

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ARE THE OFFICERS

I

London. HAVE just been told something about the Royal Navy which has horrified me.

What I have been told may be untrue, though in this very week I have been told it by two men who, in each other's hearing, corro- borated what was said, and who men by three other spoke to me independently.

com-

TOO MILD?

by J. P. W. Mallalieu, MP

• Socialist MP for ud

dernfield East, 1. P. W. Mallolies 10 a in the Royal Navy 1942-46. served on the lower deck on convoys to Russia and later sona a commission.

lle wrote the book Very about Ordinary

Beuman

his experiences.

It was shocking, not only because it was so contrary to my own short experience of the Navy, but even more

the because it was plaint which I have heard,

I have been asking questions; despised and discounted so and though my Navy time is but which now nearly nine years past, I often in life,

still know sailors who treat me now, almost incredibly,

as one of themselves. seemed genuine when made about the Royal Navy.

Uneasy

I asked, always first, about living conditions because 1 suffered from these at sea and ashore during the war.

straight

cling

easy about the stories of guns being spiked and gauges being in smashed in some of Her Ma- crashing into ammunition

other jesty's ships.

gun supports or

comfortable clean and selves with the help of buckets in a washplace no larger than

Nook or front room nt Cozy Chez Neus.

GOMIC

Things have changed what since the wartime days, when hammocks were slung so diosely together that if a sleeping man sneezed he cracked the riba of 25 neighbours on either side, and when we slept in a congest ing atmosphere of elgarette smoke, stale fish, pig-swill and

sweat.

It is generally agreed that, as o result of the postwar changes, Royal Navel barreeks are now too good for pigs. But they are not yet good enough for men.

Yet, I am convinced, it is not conditions, ashore or afloat, which

gun- are leading to spiking and gauge shoshing. It is, so I um told, lack of proper discipline.

You obeyed

the Naval discipline, as I saw it, was firm, but understanding. It was grown-up. There are

BEO

WAS

the We stuck that because, when many things wrong with

Ael which we put in and had the chance Naval Disciplino

effectively, we were ought to be at right, but the to grouse 30 wholeheartedly glad to be way it was adininistered out of danger that wo forget liberal with the very largest of At sea, in the mess-deck

small 1's. discomfort. which passed for home, wo

At any rate in serious matters Talking to my friends during Like nearly everyone In could not move upright without

werd given A sensible, these past few weeks and you on some catching our heads Eritain, whether directly inter-

If new understandable job to do. protruding

from the seeing something of the ested or not, I have been un-head. We could not walk ships which are in commission you did it, that was fine. If you I found that conditions didn't, you'd got to have an without

much easier. In the newer explanation which not only the

they destroyers

have

got officers but the rest of the slitp's which actually work company could understand. so there is no need for buckets, It used to be understood, and a senior officer enforced, that if a

whether leading hand, petty oficer or officergave you a direct order you carried it out, however silly the order seemed. You complained about it after- wards with absolute right, and, In my short

experience, a reasonable complaint brought dusklet,

I mow that the British sailor fighting efficiency of the shis except to make cocoa in,

ment vitally necessar

necessary for the showers

From time to time, in

had to mess, we

mixture of

same

through

But equally there is no dar stop

to feel over- sea ger from which

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is not only the jolly jack tar, home from the sea, with con- certinaed bell-bottoms, whom the civilian ACCO, But I also water and green vegetables whelming relief; so the seeming know that he does not make which the storm had pounded ly inevitable hardships of Hie

headlines unpleasant

unless out of their proper containers; at sea press in continuously. there

really and when it was calm again, we had, some 180 of us, to get our- wrong.

is something

THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN

A DOCTOR TAKES HIS MEDICINE

COHEN, HENRY the great physician

Limits exist

Inevitable?

Designers, when they first rench for the dividers

But today, when a leading and their pencils, sny to them scaman or a petty officer given Lolves: Let's remember that a direct order to a seaman, the human beings will nun this ship. aman can tell his senior' to go of things to So they plan spacious mess and do all sorts

tell him sa ito do decks. But, between drawing himself, can.

whole ship's 'com- board and Anal construction, before the

sometimes got there is much Invention, with pany and can which lite mess deck cannot away with it. keep

space. What was once planned as an addition to living

Officers hesitate

QIR

"You did not fell the chemist quarters becomes in the end the

Why do they get away will! naked hopefully, realising that the tidellest gun.. drew up the Government's the chemist must know of his Within mits, you cannot help. it? Because, it is said, naval "black list" of drugs which connection with the "black list." this. For her own safety every officers today, abandoning, their should not be prescribed

by his 92-year-old mother.

ho was chairman issued the "black list," Sir Henry deve- loped a chest cough at his Liverpool home.

ALWAYS A DIN

ad

for

"Oh, yes," said Mrs Colen.ship, as far as possible, must be practice of mixing tolerance because they are "of no "I told him to send the bill to equipped with the latest wea with firmness which made them, pons of offence and defence, to me, so superior to the officers The safety, not the comfort, of of any other Service, are now proved value," has been my lad,"

Sir Henry told this story at a

weakness the crew must come first; and mistaki inade to take one of them—–

medical lunch in London,

though the Admiralty have at tolerance. They are so anxious last come to realise that open to avold the appearance: of an gun shields in destroyers sailing unhappy ship which a long д On the day that the Health

to the Arctic are unsafe as well crime shoot might denote that and writers of good stand when McCarthy launches Ministry committee of which will

alarmed and distressed his next biltz. The Administro-

uncomfortable because they hesitate to back thole petty No matter how long you work frozen angers really cannot turn officers. by what is happening to free- tion Si running out of issues on

First, the dom in the United States. which it can seize the Initiative

in loud noise you never get so shell fuses-thera are limits What happens? tod to it that it cosses to inter-bayand which their lordships They hope to do what the and rout McCarthy, and it aps

fere with your efficiency.

cannot go.. Every sailor, in war belly officers and loading hands, who are the backbone of the politicians are frightened to pears to know it.

Sir Henry, who is 54, is a That is the finding of Medical and in ponce, realises that... do-stop McCarthy be

Navy, chuck their hands in. Hi in his McCarthy remains the chief

bachelor, so his mother took Research Council psychologist There will be

Second, the matelota, Instead of. more speaker for the Republicans, in

charge of the case,

D. Broadbent, who has been Not good enough

chuck their being appeased, ... batties like the one on Capitol the election campaign which

honds In 100, Hill, but the next time the has now begin Eisenhower's

"Waving aside his objections, testing the effect of noise on women hope to put more iron top aides don't think they can

the trotted off to the nearest anilors used to engine-room din

One possible solution would They say: Thero's Jones. Wi While the allora kept: watch win the November election with into the spines of their men.

chemist's shop and returned

when be to adopt the old German plan know he's just a won-lawyer. But What about Semtor Joseph out McCarthy's help, so they

with a large bottle of patent on diale, adjusting them McCarthy himwolf? น่ง I murmur that the Incident 1 cough mixture which was one necessary, the polso of machinery of tronting ships solely ht ha gets away with it. There's swollen with arroganco. He closed dem of the 600 druga Sir Henry hart was continously transmitted ing machines and allowing the Smil. He's just "bloby rusion from place to place in I am afraid it' will bo

left to put on the "black Hats Bagge, from loudspeakers, skoro saliors, an often da posables to minded. But he gold away his black Cadillac (a glit: from the women to damolish the He was bornbed when he saw The will performance was Tve ashord Indecent barracks with it, too. Okay I'm a blo Brolly, word it than when But, Britain: does not. A phases browned off myself Where are Field VlingTibay aur autruiy toole the consistently, his rich triends), his police sovereign" MITTAN

apre,, decent barracka, i

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