I
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1954.
Reincarnation
T was in a Japanese
prisoner-of-war camp,
in the grim days of 1942, that A cultured Englishwoman of 47 re- ecived the answer to a rein- carnation riddle that had puzzled her for many years. She now lives in a suburb in the southwest of Lon. don. I will call her Mrs W.
Hfer astonishing story, I think, is best told in her own words, as she told it to me only a fortnight ago,
in
"I was born
India, of British parents who were also
born in Indin," she said, "It
W. 24 a young girl of 23 that i
1. experienced
der that was
請 strange
to haunt me
boughout the years.
"EL *#43 terrifying
A
drean and sharp. in leur
1: stant-eyed Oriental man entered my room in the dead of night and attempted to take me in his
JAPJIEM.
The Astonishing Story of Mrs W
She Met The Man
Her
Her
"Then, somewhere about 1938,
the dream suddenly changed. In wus
looking out of a
Dream - He
Know
window of our hilltop bungalow, and below, in the harbour. I and saw a flect of warships. Runds
of soldiers, Japanese soldiers, marching
up towards where we livedi.
"And I saw, in this vision, my husband and myself and our small child all taken prisoner
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By PARRY
MILLER
could never marry. She had gone back to India, married an other, and had been dead many yours.
there "Well,
R was.
The officer had no doubt he was the reincarnation of that nobleman. He was also convinced I was the reborn girl that nobleman had loved and lost. Far fetched? Maybe, But he, and the vision that had so constantly haunted
me too.
Of
Told
You!'
**I was
"But, I found myself in- sisting. surely, sir, there is a well. It should be where the conservatory is, but I can't find
shook his
"But the owner hend. 'I can assure you thore is no well, either in or any- where near the house. And I have never heard of there being one,
"I was
old enough to know that further Inatalence would verge on the impertinent. I came away from that old house unconvinced 1 just knew that I was right.
"And there must have been
In the something
way I had terribly frightened spoken that made an impression For after on the house owner, we had loft he, too, found him- self unable
to stop thinking about it.
so frightened that I got up and ran from the place.
"in the third picture I saw myself in the study of a clergy- man- an elderly man of benign appearance wearing white side- whiskers.
"This house was something over a couple of hundred years He decided to turn up old. some old plans of the place, him of the just to satisfy his curiosity, And horrible man who had sat oppo- to his astonishment he found it,
farmhouse marked there on the plan. site to
"I was telling
me in the
A
and marched down to the har- stepped back. No more was said and frightened me, convinced kitchen, and he was comforting well at the spol where now
bour and put atwurd one of
'Like My Sister' those ships as prisoners.
WAKE, every detail of the "A
dewam ve Vision Terártud with me, and 1 for myself
With
shivering
features n 1 entirely untam.Ite
B
between us.
"But as the weeks passed we frequently saw each ofher about the camp. Always would his eyes stare questioningly into my
"There was more. I was sent for by the ship's cuplata. When I entered his cabin i found him desk, his back sitting at lala
I stood there for The towards me.
"Sometimes he would stop for some moments waiting for ha
Suddenly he turned a wind or two. Always would la prak
זיין
decided he was r they a Chine e
Japanese.
or 41
* murred a ten plantes whe had a small vesate in the India. hills. One day we wise arvated to take lew at the bearer Hin elderly Englishwoman who had しょまい
lived in Budia must of her
own.
by his swivel chair, and, to my he end by asking, in puzzled horror, I found myself staring lone
in the cold eves of the man before?
เอ ILLS dream.
3、2I5
"Where have we met
I wish i knew."
"I. 1oo. wanted to know that. of course, still but But I could neither help him Yet it came to puss nor help myself. a dream as Burd reality.
"Pur on March 24, 1942, m.
"I had 102 Vis fed the lady, huwan nd myself were both
before. Bot as, with my hus- taken prisoner by the Japanere band. I approched her house A cam had been set up on one set there the bills, I had a of the larger dilanda and it was queer sensation that it wa and late this we were headed
FICAN
Visit I was paying
* peenest 1. **** had been Here helor,
titat t
Th
Both Puzzled
Karden, and the garden paths, all seemed strangely fumilare.
after learned We
THE day
that WI were lo be
"And it is an odd fact thal
from that day I have never had my terrifying dream again."
Schoolmistress
24
IVING in a Devon village is
retired schoolmistrers whom I will call Miss S. She has On unshakable belief in reincarnation.
One reason for this bellet is "We talked of the places each an experience that came to her of us had visited in our lives, a couple of years ago. it was That did not help. It was quite a three-fold vision clear
that con- to both of us that our sisted of pictures from the past paths had never crossed.
-her past, she is convinced.
"But as we myself telling
lived in India.
talked I found him that I had They I went on
to tell him of the old lady and her orchard of rare Japaneso
frulls.
"I hrd gene to bed." she ex- plained to me. "But I was not yet asleep
this when I had vision.
"Three distinct pictures were shown to me, and each was "And 1 ated thal this clear and vivid. In the first I vrehard hud been grown from uw myself sitting in the back senker Japanese shuple sent as a gift from Japan of a covered-in farm cart, which by certain Japanese nobleman, was trundling along a country
I was Lane.
binck this quest.oning whose name I mentioned.
wearing cloak,
and stood in the compound of the
wide-brimmed black bonnet, the other prisoners; chung with
which, with its and orvently
tbree
ribbons led under my chin, had Japanese odlieves approaching.
BAKER
Then I saw the figure of ou host stating. at the porch of interviewed by her home It WIN very edi. officer< I felt I had known her int)- mately long before this. wa B. Oddly, to my eyes, she booked about 20, That, though, night always have been a trick of light. I did not think so,
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She
J
neurer
a sudden wave of terror, swept over me He is the living image of the un who had figured in mu
"And it was certainly cdd "One of them caught my eye, that htt the introductions He was a man about 40. she should take my hand, stare as he drew at me, and then say: “My dear.
given You have
quite shock never saw anyone who liked quite so ke my sister. And she died some years before you can have been born,"
when the hachard of trees.
t
Cana
De
Family Name
hu!
DX.
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been thrown to the bazi of my neck, because was so hot.
"At that sume momen! must have become aware of me. There WARN mething I could For he suddenly began to run think of 243. Either then or towards me,
with outstretched Lewis LF5 Into her
hauds and a look of utter in- rare Japanese fruit
face. credulity his allow
Oh, metiam, madam! 1 heard had uttered. İntery
in good English. I
"Then he told me his version know you, I know you.
of the nobleman's gift of truit "The unlookers
have
tree shoots. That glit, as i found it an extraordinary scene.
have said, had been made to a sister of the old lady I had As he reached me his Drms
out
about
iny known. shoulders, and
his eyes stared F into my own.
eight. of a
And Mtraordinary effect. Start-
"I could feel the swering of the curt, which a white horse ing up from his chair the officer was pulling. The driver was a exclaimed 'My name!
How did big.
brood shouldered
man you know my name?"
whose face I could not rec.
"had not, and raid so. I, "in the back of the cart with and all of us in the cump, had me was a little girl at seven or Who she was I do not simply known him as the holder
single surname. He now know--but I feel she was not an explained to me that that was
Important part of the picture. true naine. only a part of his His family name was the one I
"By my
side wi a heavy trunk and had the feeling that I was 7, housemo'd Laken to a house where to take up new job.
"The second pleture followed instantly on the fading of the first. In it I saw myself sitting at a table in the stone-flagged kitchen of a farmhouse, Seated across the table, staring at me a visit she had paid to Japan. with a gleam of sheer wicked- And she had loved him. But ness in his eyes, was a great there were reasons why they rough brute of a man.
bad
"There, she explained. been grown from shooti brought by her sister from Japan. The wift of a certain baron
1.
ex-
Went
and
musi
"In due course my husband I moved to a gth of islands 40 the Indian Decan Every Now nud then perience TELY queer dream "Then, seeming uit at once lo again. Always was at the realise where he was, he mut- mercy of the same Oriental. tered A word of apology and
NAGUIB-IT'S
W
7HY has Egypt's Military Junta mnde its
peace
The nobleman, it seems, had fallen in love with her during
UP,
mc.
"I explained to him that I just could not go back to my
work at that farmhouse because of this man. His reply was that
as his housekeeper had just had
to leave him I could have that
迂 post
cared. 1 gindly accepted.
stood the conservatory.
"The Answer'
"RES
66) ESEARCH established that this well had been filed La about 1 hundred years enrlier. und
the conservatory built over where it had been.
"And at that point the vision
"I had been quite right. But ended. It was never repeated.
how had known of the
།
that unsuspected satisiled existence of completely that I was
being shown some well? eplaode from my life in it pre- vious Incarnation.
"The purpose? To show mo how easily I can be frightened and how, in this present life, I must Aght against fear."
'I Was Right'
"It was some years later that I found the answer to that ques- tion. And it was quite a simple
answer. Just that, a century before, the occupants of that old house had been a remote branch of my family.
"And 1 WDS convinced then, and am convinced today, that that was when I had first known
Now here is the story of a this house. And the well from
queer experience that
has the waters of which I had many remained vivid in the merry times, in a past life, quenched
my thirst."
of a man for close on half o century.
He is a retried Army majur. now living in a West Country town. And he told me the facts of this experience of his in the manner of a man who all his
fe has had no time for the
fanciful.
**I was born in India and he said. brought up in Paris," "And it was when i was a boy of 11 that I was brought over to live in London, with a tutor. Up to that time I had never before set foot in England.
"One day my tutor took me to visit Chislehurst, in Kent. The house some people living in
was an old one, and this WRA my first visit.
own.
"While my ciders were chatting I, as boys will, ran off being on my
This old house was somehow intrigued me, young as I was, and 1 made a little tour of exploration. Soon I was back, with wanted answering. 'Where,"
a question I much asked the owner of the house, is the well?'
I
"I can still see the puzzled look in his eyes. 'Well?' he echoed, 'we have no well here, my boy.'
DOWN, UP AGAIN
By JON KIMCHE
Author of "Sevon Fatten Pillars,” and an expert analyst of Middle East affairs.
This was the first
to the calculations which crisis could not have been timed
more unfortunately. the Junta had made.
with Nagulb? To save Egypt's collapsing position in the Sudan. The Junta
blow power Inside the Junta The For behind this there loomed had apparently allowed for
Egypt's future action in her re- lutions with Britain and with everything when it took its
the United States. carefully prepared step to It was not the only Then amerged in Coiro a depose Naguib.
member of the one. The second blow was young man-a
The Junta is still divided on Junta of whom almost nothing both questions. even had been heard in the outside But in fact it had allowed hardly less severe
no world. though the Junta had
Je was Khaled only for all possible con-
control over it. By sheer Mohleddin-one of the youngest tingencies in Egunt-not unlucky chance, just as members of the Junta, in the unpredictable Sudan.
they were making their In arrangements Anger swept through the new pro-Egyptian National Cairo, the Syrian dictator, Unionist Party when the Brigadier Shishekly, capi- news about Naguib became tulated in the known just as it had com- a threatened pleted preparations for his rising.
triumphant
Khartoum.
Clear Warning
This event
In The Shadows
Nasser and his colleagues thought otherwise. They thought they
could
hold out-even alone, For behind all their calculations Nogulb's Nasser's the Junta's there was one un- solved riddle to which they could not find the answer.. how could they force the hand of Churchill, who was "in no parti- cular hurry" to negotiato?
That was tho
crisis-and
the real cause of then into its Nagulb was aloof from the groups that make up the Junta, dat came the news from the
Sudan-the And in recent
come-back with a weeks he was vengeance: increasingly
it was not Egypt kept in the dark
that was
now shoping - the by other members of the Junta,
affairs of the Sudan, but He made it clear to some recent
Sudanese opinion that bad visitors that he was fully aware forced the hand of the Junta. of this. He wanted to do certain things. "But I am always alone," he explained.
Why They Cheered
Thus ended Cairo's momen- ious week. The situation was
He had an impressive air force Lace of
record and a reputation as an army up outstanding
organiser. He shunned publicity and preferred Then, suddenly, he decided to to operate from the shadows, act. Turkey and Pakistan had reception in
500 miles He refused every post that was made public their agreement collaboration. from Cairo which out the carried no title with it; he Pakistan. made formal applice- not as the official communique
offered him. He kept only one for close military wardly had no connection with the changes Inside the organising brain of the ton for American military aid. alaimed, "exactly as it had been
Junta,
At the same time, Naguib in- befæ Naguib's resignation." Egypt's Military Junta,
formed the Pakistani Foreign Naguib had yielded the premier- Although only 32 he had Minister that he would soon-pay ship to Naser, his one position the most serious minded of the young officers.
The Sudanese spoke out, completed the discomfiture gained the reputation of being an official visit to Pakistan. of real power. Said the Secretary-General of the Cairo regime.
now
ked Simultaneously the Egyptian He disliked
may
the
im-
Outwardly everything of the National Unionist For behind the Syrian up- orators and flamboyance. And official Press controlled, by have seemed the same, Party, which controls
the rising stood the Popular Party: it was this unobtrusive member Sadat and Sales-launched crudits had been papered over.
the politicians and army officeri
of the Junta who decided to try, fierce campaign against Pakistan But they had shown Government, Parlia
Jong who had opposed Shisheldly's
ith Eeypt and ils to save the Junta from itself, and also agamat Trad for con- mough to provide a vivid ment, and the Senate of the alignment
for thom who want Sudan
opposition to Iraq: Inside the He had barely 24 hours to set. templating joining the pict and
He went to Neulb with a socking American military and to see Arab League,
proposal. compromiso "Naguib the only
Is
Thus overnight-as a renit fairly certain that he went with Nagull wanted to Egyptian politician who knows anything about Sudan. What Egypt achieved in the Sudan
scams This the sollt was made, Bo Nagult is wain the hero, of the anger in the Sudan, the the knowledge and approval of Pakfrian's moport for ept The fickle crowd cheer him
in Cairo with though not necessarily and"
that
cortalit
other, States: 2. He did not that the member of the
also that got the United they have not chowed - any
Junta
found luck completely isolated omcers of the Junts. For there vie that maype could fored the g
the
coup in Syria, and the pact in
has Pakistan-the regime
is
due solely to Naguib,"
It was a clear warning to
Catro
in the Artis League and in the was much more tied up in the Barian to widendy And the pletures of him they Mostem Middle Lasten Abi ciseb between Nasser sind beam: time masteroine palm close downs al (soon' be, back
It was a poor moment to carry Nath the merely the extent they Unina vanade
Well, there's the major's story. It is the sort of experience that is by no means unique.
And, whether one believes or does not belleve in reincarna- tion, it poses a riddle well worth thinking about.
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