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The Opportunity

At Geneva

By Patrick Maitland, MP

London. And there are Rome THE gaunt Agure of things that Chinn and Kas- Neville Chamberlain sia may badly need, which

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in top hat and Bap the West could exchange for ping talla has for long concessions, haunted the chancellerica of Europe.

Few treaties concerning Eastern Europe have been framed since the days of his Pence Front bearing the stamp of his idealism.

Nearly all have assumed that an international agree. ment is similar to a business morn! contract laced with principles.

Chamberlain brought this frame of mind from Eng- land's hard-hended Indus- trial Midlands.

The essence of his kind of contract is summed up in the lawyers' Latin tag; "*consensus ad Idem, which roughly translated. means that both parties must have the same inten- tions towards the businens in hand. In fact, honesty.

But the Russians seem never to have thought like that.

An

such agreement on lines would have a chance It of lasting for soine time. might have a real meaning. particularly if it dealt with Southeast Asia.

For the key to this chance of better understanding is China.

Let down

RED China is willing to go to important lengths to obtain recognition in UNO,

he areas

may and there under her influence which she would consider expend- able.

Indo-China may be one

And Ho Chi-| such region, minh might already realise is radio and press this.

comment have made little on the Geneva conference, which is to discuss Indo- Chinn.

Merener, fie

that. knows although he has sent diplinatte There have been several envoys to Moscow and Peking. them Formal Soviet and Chinese em- agreements. among

Lussies

have not been dispetebed the Satellite Peace Treaties as return and the U.N. Convention on Human Rights, obliging the signatories to free Eastern Europe on the imsis of self- determination.

Another way

T Berlin the Russians AT

showed that they had no intention of being bound by these obligations, and at last came the chance to lay Chamberlain's ghost.

For there is another way

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cf reaching agreements, which the West may adopt at Geneva. The Germ0818 {1}- have a word for it

is only a neat politic. It

of

what putting way Machiavelli said at length in "The Prince,"

Perhaps Ho Chi-muhly recalls the fate of General Markes He was once premier of Free Grevce In the rival way, but of the end anrecognised Frisappeared,

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and let down by his master The rme could happen to Ho Ch-

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als see

The Ruslans might

[L settlement advantages m Ludo-China It is believeil that she is already becoming anxious at glowing Chinese Imperialism. with its danger of involving the

USSR in some fresh conflict with the USA.

Some think that this fear has

Russia

bring encouraged China to the conference table.

How far?

N Be Days of thesa i pares a the X': mmutust world, the Wet muht be able to strike a bargan. But just how We can go towards admitting complex Cena to UNO question

This does i mean at tempted swinding, But, as far as agreements are roll- before cerned, it means that they are not framed in terms of moral principles.

They reflect not what a nation

profess for may others benefit, but what badly needs itself.

for

I wadd certainly be unwise to grant such status to China and receiving entrete

In any case lasting advantages. the tedang history of negotia- tus with the Communists must prevent over-optimism.

But even if Geneva proves no more trustful than Berin, there I hope that

West will approach the Communists thus time more realistically.

Every aspect Colo

now

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1954.

CIGARETTE No. 1

"What nonsensei

Why,

my grandfather smoked

30 every day and lived to the age of 95!

TWO OVER TI

No. 2

OVER THE FIVE

by Cummings

besides, one's

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and the loss in taralioS world throw the nation's Anances out acar...

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speculation based on very little tack...

No. 6 but certainly

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No. 7

.. doctor, you couldn't come round for a little chock-up, could you?"

London Express Service

pieces áldn't...

1 one

Concluding the adventure of the Deptford Horror

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But "Just so. UIDED by the light

there not Wilson's ETIC significance in the of Janet

stokehole of

an fron candle, we mounted that the silently to the floor stove should be fitted with a above and thence into the bedchamber which Holmes had previously examined,

"Great heavens. Holmes!" I cried. ns the light of under- standing burst upon me, "You mean that this man Wilson has While we waited for our used the inter-connecting pires companion to collect her from the stove in the cellar to the r in the bedrooms to dis- things from the adjoining me

atrolled mate some deadly polson to room, Holmes

wipe out his own kith and kin obtain the across and, lifting the edge can thus

property. it is for that reason that he has which now of the cloths

a Breplace in his own bedroom. covered the two birlenges, I see it all."

the tiny peered in at sleeping occupants,

The evil of Man is as in-

it is ventive ዛ

im- measurable," said he, and 1 noticed that his face Was very stern,

Un Mas Wilson's return, having seen that she was safely ensconced for the night, I follow- J Holmes into the room which It was she had lately occupied,

small chamber but comfortably furnished and 1.1 by heavy silver oll-kemp. Immediately above a tiled Dutch stove there hing a eage containing three canaries which, momentarily

"Well, you are not for wrong. that Watson, though I fancy

Master Thecbold is rather more subtle than

He you suppose. presses the two quilities vital

The NEW exploits of SHERLOCK HOLMES

WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR

Holmes and Watson have been visiting a house in Deptford where three members of a family have died

who mysteriously. Now Min Janet Wilson,

has

inherited the property, is frightened and wants to move out. Her uncle Theobold, who trains canaries and also lives in the house, tries to calm the girl's fears. After examining the house Holmes and Watson leave, but return later armed with a golf club. Unbeknown to Theobold Wilson, they ask the girl to move to another room for the night. They thon go to keep vigil in the girl's bedroom...

Kill it! yelled

"Kill it! Smash U!" he yelled hoarsely, raining blow after blow with his golf club at the blurred shape racing across the walls,

from broken plaster choked the air, and ( table crashed over as 1 flung myself to the

Dust

ground when the great

cleared the room in П leap and turned at bay. Holmes bounded

by ADRIAN CONAN DOYLE

across me, certain of his canaries to imitate swinging his club. "Keep where the song of some Cuban night-

which the Galcodes you are!" he shouted, and even bird upon an his voice rang through the fed. The marks on the celling room the thud. thud, thud of were cnused, of course, by the the

blows was

broken

the spiders by

suot adhering to horrible squelching sound. For legs after they had scrambled up ang the fluer. It is fortunate, per- an instant the creature hung there, and then, slipping slowly hops, for the consulting detective down, it lay like a mess of that the duster of the average, smushed eggs with three thin

housemaid seldom strays beyond bony legs still twitching and the height of a mantelpiece.

"Indeed, I can discover plucking at the floor.

excuse for my lar

lamentable slow-

Smash it!

Holmes

ceasing their sung, cocked their lo the successful murderer sound that was rising and fall-

beads Kulden

fitte approach.

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ruthlessness and

imagination. But now, dowse the light like a "I Wink, Watson, that it would good fellow and for a while let us retex. II my reading of the be As well to

reax for half

problem is corect, our nerves o bour," whispered Holmes 18

their limit "So may be tested sank into our chairs.

bcfore we see tomorrow's dawn. Kindly put out the light."

Jay back in the darkness and "But, my dear fellow, if the drawing some comfort from the is any danges It would be a thought that ever since the affair

madness!" 1 protested.

with Colonel Sebastian Moran "There is nu danger in the I had carried my revolver in my darkness."

pocket,

my mind for sought in "Would it not be better," I soine explanation that would ac-

said severely, "that you were count for the warning contained

frank with me? You have made in Holmes's words. But I must

My thoughts but what is this danger that are and more confused exists only in the amplight?"

I would

"I have my own ideas on that matter, Watson, but it is better that we

should wall and see. draw your attention, however, to the hinged lid of the

stokehole

On the top of the stove."

It

but from the canary cage. was a kind of whistling begin- ring with a low throaty warble and slowly ascending to a single chord that rang through the ruoin like the note of a great w'neglass, a sound so mesmeric in its repetition that almost im- perceptibly the present seemed to melt away and my imagina lion to reach out beyond those foglound windows into the dark exotic lush depth of some Jungle.

I had lost all count of time

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My heart gave one great throb and then seemed to stop beating altogether. The lid of the stare 100s slowly rising....

"Thank God that it missed you when it sprang!" I gasped, scrambling to my feet,

He made no reply, and glane ing up I caught a glimpse of his face reflected in a wall mirror, He looked pale and strained, and there was a curious rigidity in his expression.

"I am afraid it's up to you, Watson," he said quietly. "It hes a mote."

1 spun round to be greeted by a spectacle that I shall remem- ber for

the rest

of my days, Sherlock Holmes was standing perfectly still within two feet of the stove on top of it, reared up on its back legs, its loathso

body shuddering for the

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ness in solving this enst, for the facts were before me from the fast and the whole affair Wes elementary in its construction.

the

"And yet to give Theobold Wilson his dues, one must recog- rise his almost dlabolical clever- ness. Once these

horrors were in the stove in the installed cellor, what more simple than flues to arrange two ordinary

the bed- communicating with rooms above. By hanging the cages over the stoves, the flues would themscives act as magnifler to the bird's song and guided by their predatory in- stinct the creatures would Ascend invariably

whichever pipe led to it. Having devised some means of luring them back again to their nest, they repre. sented a comparatively safe way of getting rid of those who stood between himself and the perty.

pro-

Then its bite is deadly?" I

stood another monstrous spider. interposed.

I knew instinctively that any

a person in weak health, sudden movement would merely probably so. But there lies the precipitate the creature's leap devilish cunning of the scheme, and so, carefully drawing my Watson. It was the sight of the

rather than revolver from my pocket, I fired thing

Its bite, pointblank.

though it may be, on he relied to kill his

Can

vicum.

you imagine the

woman, upon an elderly

obvious that the birds are have been wearler than I had and it was only the sillness fol- being put to some evil purpose, imagined.

grew lowing the sudden cessation of and the bird's song that brought me dozed off.

back to reality. I glanced across was a touch upon my arm the room and, in an instant, my

Through the powder-smoke, I effect that awoke me. The lamp had heart gave one great throb and bigger in its spread than a large saw the thing shrinic into itself and later upon her son, both been relit and my friend was then seened to stop beating dinner plate,

with

a hard, and then, toppling slowly back suffering from Insomnia and bending over me, his long black altogether.

smooth, yellow body surround- ward, it fell through the open heart disease, when in the midst shadow thrown upon the celling.

There was a of a bird's seemingly innocent The lid of the stove was slowly ed by legs that, rising high above lid of the stove. "Sorry to disturb you, Wat-

This It, conveyed a fearful impression roeping, allthering sound rapidly song appalling spectacio rising. son," he whispered. "But duty

My friends will agree that

that the thing was crouching fading away into silence.

arose from the top of the stove? calls."

for its spring. It was absolute- "It's fallen down the pipe," We have sampled it ourselves I am neither a nervous nor on do?"

impressionable man, but I must ly hairless suve for tufts of stift I cried, conscious that my hands though we are healthy men, "Sit still and listen, Peperino confess that, as I sat there grip bristles around the leg-joints, were now shaking under a strong kitled them as surely as a bullet

ping the sides of my chair and and above the glint of its great reaction. "Are you all right, through their hearts."" glaring at the dreadful thing poison mandibles clusters of Holmes?"

eyes shone In the light He looked at me and there that was gradually clambering

with A baleful red iridescence. was a into view, my limbe momentarily

singular light in his eye. "Don't move, refused their functions,

Watson," whis.

Thanks to you, my dear pered Holmes, and there was a fellow!" he said soberly. "If I The lid had tilted back an note of horror in his voice that had moved, then-but what is the lampshade, so that the light inch or more, and through the

that?" fell on the opposite wall broken gap thus

*11 appears to be a perfectly I normal fitting."

What do you wish me

to

la singing."

It was a vigil that I shall long remember. Holmes had tilted

The fog had thicken-

created o

writhing

hold. And then, in a flash, it

I had never heard before,

by the window and the great mass of yellow stick-like objects tiled stove with Its hanging

ing was clawing and scrabbling for a birdcage

The sound roused the creature ed and the rays from the lamp, was out and standing motionless for, in a single lightning bound, Altering through the window upon the surface of the stove.

It sprang from the stove to the gines, lost themselves in lumi- Though I have always viewed top of the birdcage and, reach- nous clouds that swirled and with horror the bird-cating ng the wall, whizzed round the boiled against the panes.

torantulas of South America, "-corn and over the colling with My mind darkened by a pre- they shrank into insignificance a dreadful febrile swiftness that monition of evil, I would have whin compared with we sun- the eye could scarcely follow. found our surroundings melan- seme creature that faced us now Holmes flung himself forward choly enough without that eerie azrom that lamplit reom. It was like a man possessed.

WOMEN'S GULLIBILITY

DOESN'T SURPRISE

By LES ARMOUR

It

"There is one thing I cannot understand, Holmes. Why did he appeal to Scotland Yard?"

"Because he is a man of iron A door had slammed below and, in an Instant later, we nerve. His niece was instinctive- caught the swift patter of feet frightened and, finding that she was adamant in her intention upon the gravel path

After him cried Holmes,

of leaving, he planned to loll her springing for the door, "your at once and by the same method.

"Once

done, who should daro shot warned him that the game to point the finger of

of suspicion was up. He must not escape!" at Master Theobold? Had he But fate decreed otherwise, not appealed to Scotland Yard, Though we' rushed down the

and even invoked the ald of Mr staire and out Into the fog. Sherlock Holmes himself Theobold Wilson had too much satisfy one and all? The gici start on us and the advantage had died of a heart attack like of knowing the terrain. For a while we followed the faint the others, and her uncle would have bren the recipient of sound of his running footstepa down the empty

general condolences, towards Janes

"Remember the padlocked the river, but at length these cover of the stove in the collar dfed away in the distance.

and

"It is no good. Watson We offered to fetch the key. It was admire the cold nerve that

have lost our man," panted ofer Holmes. "This is where the

bluff of

for he would that he had

course,

it. Had we persisted and

omelal police may be of use. But avo, discovered listen! Surely that was a cry?"

2035 that lock, I prefer not

A BIRMINGHAM city. Epsom salts, Glauber salts know for sure. But business is "Well, it is hopeless to look have found clinging around our

a

was en cyelash This miracle sub-

WAS

analyst who plainly and common salt. The in- brisk enough, doesn't believe that miracles gredients cost about

justify come out of bottles has shilling. been doing some digging Then there into the things women buy grower. Ito make them look like stance | Marilyn Monroe.

thrown in. It costs nearly as and a ahilling. promoter must have been much as the "allmmer" but its talking about women when ingredients self for about thres ho noted that there's a shillings a pound. sucker born every minute.

Here, for instance, in

collars,"

Wilson was never

how-

tho

"T thought I heard some- to think of what we would thing." apparently, te further in the fog. Let us return

Theobold persistent advertising and comfort this poor girl with heard of again. But it is perhaps campaigns and there is no in the assurance that her troubles dication that any of the makers are now at an end."

suggestive that, some two days are going bankrupt,

later, a man's body was fished out of the Thames. The corpsa The products Mr Bagnall dug

was mutilated beyond recog- compounded of into cost between 15s. fl, and a They were nightmare crea-

ship's yellow petroleum jelly with guinea, They are "worth" tures, Holmes," I exclaimed, as altion probably by a

and tho He figures that the circus somo crlouring and pertumo something between a few pence we retraced our steps toward the propeller,

searched house; "and of some unknown po

of Identification.‚ pockets in for means species." Tho, difficulty is that not all "I think not, Watson," said he, They contained nothing, the beauty preparations on the "It was the Galeodes spider, the over, save for a small notebook market are takes and not all horror of the Cuban forests. It is

withjoitings on sell at fabulous prices. But the perhaps fortunate for the rest of brooding period of the Fringilla.

Canaria, customer has a hard time the world that it is found "It is the wise man who what the analyst (Mr H. Eventually, he got around to choosing between them.

nowhere else. The creature

koops bres," remarked Sherlock H. Bagnall) had to say an astringent lotion used to

Mostly, they are bought for nocturnal in its habits and, un Holmes when he read the re- about a certain slimming Pep up the skin. This prized their psychological effect and less my memory belles me, it

"You know where you pollon turned out to be made preparation which the of methylated

the stiffer the price, the bigger possesses the power actually to Port .spirit ladies are urged to put into mineral oil.

and the mental boost the not-sosialt break the spine of smaller cren are with them and at least they. Indies seem to get from them. tures with a single blow of its do not attempt to represent as something that their bath-water...

The price reports Me

You will recall that themselves You could probably got Bagnall,"was a measure

they are not Anyhow, Mr Bagnall doesn't Miss Janet mentioned that the ··WORLD; COPYRIGHT, RESERVED better results by drinking in (ver) gullible very think he is going to get at had vanished Ance hor

and ol can bought far. spirit

uncle's return, Doublie Wilson Another new Sherlod

Holmes

adventure

of

mandibles,

for (d.

He says women's gullibility no brought the brules back with It costs nearly $1, but it How many worden: queue up longer surprises him. "I have him, he went on and then lis'made'of a combination of for this atua nożona, powns to come to expect it.”

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