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I'm going back to the SUN!

by TOM STACEY, who sets out today

on the first stage of a Journey to the Unknown

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Old Etonian Tom Stacey (24, married, daughters is the author of a best-selling book, "The Horille Sun. It told how, as a National Serviceman in Malaya, he spent his leave alone in the jungle and found a lost aboriginal tribe. Now he is of on a new journey to primitive regions of Africa. He will send back the story of his adventurca

F my old jungle friend still means 10 lend me his poison-dart deire- tor he must be quick. For today I set out for Leopold- ville, Congo, on the first lap of a 4,500-mile picnic acroAR Africa.

me

Already 1 pressed on specially cured

which no through.

make

had have

lots of

leather can Lite

I asked the old jungle- chum if he would demen- strate the qualities of these He was exceptional boots.

Re had 114 shamefaces!. venomous snake at home- not one single little demon- stration snake.

The pills

HAVE so

len offered a phtal of

"survival" Krey pills. The pill is the size of my slowly, thumb, "to be micked preferably with a pebble," To- Beurer they re Rranteed, I have nothing else to when eat but cactus spikeri, so keep me fit and eager for 25 days.

But I am still short of a poison-dart deflector.

Elsewhere in my rucksack are to be found a macintosh cape, which will turn inte

Watch for

shelter or wash-

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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 13,.... 1954. .

OUR FIRST OBJECTIVE:

A TRIBE CALLED 'FANG'

THERE are

old

two of

防水

sciting out on (kla journey.

"Twenty-eight-year- Kironde, An African whose home to Buganda (where his father was chief), is the other one.

Erten (you pronounce 15 Erlena) has been a friend of malno for some time. But it is only by chance that we have linked up on this journey.

At a party at Cambridge, where Erim haa just gradus fed in anthropology. I overheard him saying that he would be in Uganda in three month.

I swung round and said: And so shall [."

HALF-WAY

Next day it was all arranged. Ile would come with me half- way, no for a Stanleyville in the Belgian Congo. Then. when I plunged southwards to

Angols, he would branch off home to Uganda,

Where are we going?

To

the forgotten tracts of French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo, and Angola which, in certain parts, we shall be the first anthropolo. glets to visit.

THEN-ALONE

My aim is 4,500 milom, travelling with minimum with bla Bria pomp shortened route, will travel about 2,500 miles.

The more arduous pamages I shall undertake alone. Four years ago Erfax loss a foot t a football accident

Once we reach Leopoldville next week, we shall immedi ately not off towards our first objectlys: the pagan Fang tribesmen of the dosaregyed source of the Utamboni River. French Equatoriai Afrios.

Au revoir.

of 12 miles, In temperatures deeply into French Equatorial ranging from 40 deg. Fiturenheit Africa,

130 deg.. in 50 fathoms of Off I went to the Spanish overland Consulaty in Cavendish Square, water, and travelling

I spoke of 300 miles JIT W for nsultation. nt a speed

to The dark That is what the fellow up Truthfully hour. who lent it to me told me.

Kiris behind the counter: "I may I believe he thought I was wish to go to Spanish Guinea," some quick-change comedy act

"Which part of Spain is that?" with Professor Plected. Tenzing asked the darkt girls. Sel

of the Antarvike, John Cobb among my repertory. The only exigency which,

The maker did not perhaps, foreser I have taken steps to

counter

and

That exigency is: What effect basin, six mouth might the digestive processes of Tom Stacey's organs, a water- Joker anal one

reporte from

park,

{the Jungle

:

false eye with "A Present

From Skegness" Wrillen

on the back 1 shall be telling you what part these are to play as time goes by.

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watch. Ty уся -

will what a watch,

Oh Boy.

a lion have on the watch?

The rifles

take a to the province of Chan

Oubangi-

not

11's In Spain," I said, "It's in Africa."

"Perhaps," said one girl, "he

1 soid. means Spanish Gwiny-a."

"That's right," "Oleh," they exclaimed, "you there. Permission cannot go tokes four to five months, and

is not usually given." then it

1940- MEMORIAL TO A BIG MOMENT by Giles -1954

m not hungry."

London Express Service

WHAT WOULD BE SCRIBBLED ON HIS WRITING PAD

If Ike

By JOHN JUNOR

DO not know whether bombs President

Goes In

over the citles of Eisenhower America. Some time in 1956 be available for shares EL mannerism it will possessed by many poli- delivery in quantity to the That was that until drawing ticians-that of doodling on Russian bomber squadrons. Geoa piece of paper while he It was this intelligence bent on listens to arguments ad- which anthropological research vanced by colleagues in a had in mind when speaking

myself up to my full height us

fellow of the

graphical

Society

Royal

wrote to the ambassador in diplomatic vein.

no! Now, maybe, In weeks I shall be in

those to Invite

Bantu tribe.

ก

"conference.

many

discouraging

General Gruenther

PART of my journey is to be

at a dinner in London last taken in French Equatorial Africa, in the interior of which

But if he does there are month. He made a remark ve plenty of hungry lions. So Tourist I went 10 the French

ason two doodle drawings which which was not fully appre- 10 ask Bureau in Piccadilly

one asset now operate perfectly at an altitude how to obtained permission to senoritas out to Spanish Guinea will appear on his notepad ciated at the time. He sald: of tremendouя myself to a tea dance with the again and again during the "We have 378 Hon rille with me

coming weeks.

One doodle which is

value. We have a long-range will be that of a four-jet aircraft to which the Soviet engined bomber carrying

i can tell you our conclusion that the Soviet Union. manner, the various points sia. The other will be that ONE by one, in this oblique the insignia of Soviet Rus-ow have no answer.

route have been of a Chinese mandarin's son along my

war took place this year, threatened as out of bounds, wearing an exultant smile would be defeated.” have been advised against, or of absolute triumph.

hed their

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The prelly Parisian girl in her pretty white blouse asked me if was sure that that was where I wanted to go, and then dis-

Rh for hall appeared!

hour's research. She came up again with a grimy lenflet.

fort.

"You must apply yourself she said, "to Monsieur le Chef de District at Fort Archambault. She

stand," she continued simply, referring to the "more or less by herselves, in the dessert. You can keep this don't We

have any paper. inquiries about this place."

Perhaps in

not-too-far the not I shall know a a litle more future about Fort Archambault than mademoiselle in her pretty white blouse in Piccadilly.

Before reaching this "dessert"

have

The points

existence

doubled. Particularty in north-

ern Belgian Congo and Angola.

My seriousness has in a few words. not yet recovered from some of

For example:-

ія

if

For Doodling

C*720/76ADYA,

agrees

with-and indeed

remove their and Cam-

And therein Ilkewise.

ho arouses the wrath and bitter

chances of final victory of his own diplomacy. And He

It almost claims as a triumph for Let his final phrase be re- were irretrievably reduced? has every reason to be. Let the doodle of the peated again so that its

is not often that a Chinese his own diplomacy-Chou En- examined first, significance may be, fully

This situation produces diplomat in one month has lai's suggestion that the Com- I have been up to my ears in bomber be

would for the in Its significance can be told grasped. "If war took place problems too discouraging advice and

a British Foreign Secretary munista formation.

Immense this year, Russia would be Russians.

and come to plead with him and troops from Laos defcated."

frightening problems. Their a French Prime Minister bodla providing the French do ONE ASSET

de- come to surrender. new strategic position What if it took place in

for at With equal reason he is hostility of the Americans. me:AT this moment the United 19567 Russia might still be mands that at all costs they

at the mill- also exultant aircraft defeated. But what would must prevent war has

least the next two years.

of success

China's tary are you just going in pair capable of dropping atom happen in the process

Indeed, next to Britain, armies. only or hydrogen bombs on the New York, to Chicago, to

cities of Russia. Russia has Cincinnati, to every other Russia has become tempor- the most peace- began not yet in quantity produc- large American city? They arily

conscious nation in Europe. Ition a bomber capable of could all be reduced

Malenkov and Molotov just dare not run the risk of an immediate war. For in that

AN AMERICAN lady,

to help, asked Ing "Are you taking oxygen,

of shorts?" I gave the possible reply: "Yes."

OUPOTO."

ely African companion. 2

and I had planned first to

THE

the Arst Congo book

try-

of

St tes

certain tribe of opened, "are the nudest people retaliating in kind against heaps of atomic rubble.

Investigate a primitive Bantu. fellshists live in

These curious in Africa."

the region

where the Wales-sized country of Spanish Guinea nibbles most

ORNING

“KÓNG & KOWLOON

the cities and factories of

IN A NOT very up-to-date | America.

work entitled "Hints to the

African Traveller," I found the

Note and underline the

THE DILEMMA

extent

following advice: **In this phrase "in quantity produc- THE

region Umbrellas should always be

to

to

above all cine. But

NO FEARS

nenhe

They point out that for the and French to quit Cambodia Laos 13 tantamount to sur- of Indo- rendering the whole China to the Communists,

what guarantee they war digue, can there he deinst war. China subaquer by thoving in- the these undelunded territories pifths ower and whenever she China. Lockes? Indeed, she would red not ren have to move in a ingle solder Tbodsknio-pres- no lure, & series of red clec- worth tions and all the wealth of

Indo-Ching would be

her

war they know their own nor threats

surely perish He is left unmoved, cities would of the while the cities of their prospech of hydrok et American dilemma may main adversary, America, being used fignight rtins Bre torrential. tion." For Russia has such carried, although exception can a bomber in prototype form. now begin to be appreciated. would remain tantalisingly Why should he be when China has a be made when going Into It flew over Moscow in the The American leaders want out of reach.

tion of 600 million do you wonder if they ask This goes far to explain industrial Centres. They have a point there. But surely some good friend The Americans estimate themselves whether two Molotov's recent conciliatory the mother:

that in just two years' time years of uncertain peace tactica at Geneva. His pre- umbrella which will convert it- self into a machine gun at a at the outside it could be would be worth while if at dominant aim from now on

flying ladon with

atom the end of it their own will be to avoid incidents the atomleford ApeOLICY CLEAR

battle."

is standing by to offer mo

twist of the handle?

an

May Day parade.

pence

GO OUT AND BUY A YAK

·

By LES ARMOUR

|XX/ANT toʻget away from Tibet and much

W

no

one,

His argument isntrall

which might precipitate a colding to bearrh conflict.

China ould in the end have

effect. Does this mean then that for at least two years there East, Vina with he is no prospect of a war being masses would march

wherever she wante started by the Communists?

AN ARISTOCRAT

the

land

What then is to be dono about China? It is on this issue that there is' a

of Nepal black. Tamed, It sometimes

runs to black and white. It is at this point that cleavage between Eden and it all, be independent, for donkey's years.

doodle No. 2 comes into John Foster Dulles, live where there are

But no

until the coat makes it look like a floor-

mop from Mars. income-tax inspectors?.

Canadian Government got The wild kind often stand six the picture. The exultant. the idea, has ever thought feet high and look rough enough Bon of the Chinese man- of transporting it to other to take on a small army single- darin. The name is Chou-

handed.

En-lai. n singularly the yak la parts of the world.

Go out and buy a yak.

Yet

MEMORIES

favours

URTHERMORE,

Americans, there can be no karantee that her lust for con-

dest would to satiated even “làch-any mome than Hitler's was after the rape of Crecho- slovakin.

To the Americans, the policy which the West should pursue in clear. It is to retreat not one further step. It is to stand up to the Communists,

Balter

they "seguer, to run the fiak of a war now than to foo the certainty of it mo-American

It would probably do well gente animal in fact. It takes Mr. Eden is believed to Ement of China. He may not according to some

the appease later. Especially the certainty,

In Northern Canada, it may

Later

wer

could

That's serious advice. The Canadian Government for instance, bent on preserving in the northern parts of to domestication happily, asking have formed the view that like that word. It may have opinion, of a

of all the Communist diplo unpleasant memories for him, which Ruslan bombers Idyllic Eskimo way of life, Scotland. It would do well, little: and giving much. is thinking of buying some in fact, almost any place from India,!

where the climate, is dis be the answer to the pressing mats he has encountered Even so appessement of a type blast American ciles.

problem of the Eskimo along Chou Enlai is by far the not dissimilar to that practised

Against that, Mr Eden will by Noville Chamberlain " The yak; it seams, has tinctly chilly and generally the Labrador Coast and the toughest and most able,

prodbely the polley Eden is argue that It is better to give uncomfortable.; darea east of Hudson's Bay

now pursuing. (The Chamber the aggressor one more chance nearly everything.

It requires luule attention, where the caribou one of the Lake Eden he is an aristo lain policy blessed Britain and in case it turns out that he may eat it, and skin it.. (I you now and then to keep it going. daramare running thin. -

You can milk it, shear and only, a mouthful of stubble, biggest, PAPPE, of the Fikimocrat possessing nothing, in: received almost unanimous sups indeed be trusted. want to go on doing this

a few. herds of yak, the common with the proletariat. port.) @If's,'not' a very, pretty, beam)- Vimo may again." approach Lite Eden he has centuries sort of thing, of course, you The zoologisis call it poophagos

He appeases the Communtata The yak could of breeding behind him,

they Unlike Eden he is a Marxist in Indo-China, Ho show ro start with

HOME of words gives you the right provide: nearly

general. impression.gg med except fuel. Not that this is anything game yale. ff ffpecies of bison An Lokbucker's lots of new. The yak has been, the humping fall ready bows, room up there and am awhal lot this moment Chou En-lal is mediate defendys, pact with

Intoxicated with the success America in South-East, Aala, await an backbone of the economy (of legged Animal Wild, it's untally, of yaka in zibet..

have to buy at least two to gruniangwhich unlovely pats self-rificient: jEN ARRERE HITTARH and undeviating. At luctance to enter into an

Which is it to be? Tough- mesión" appeasemen of: Chińs