1954-11-03 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1954.

THE PEOPLE OF CYPRUS ARE HAPPY AND CONTENT

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By SAYED EL-HASHIMI

try.

RADITION has it that my distinct from the Orthodox endemic malaria. This story has something of the flavour of when St Paul and places of worship,

Travelling through the coum adventure and achievement Barnabas landed on

from the Loamy sea-coust of which appeals to the Cypriot ana the island of Cyprus, its Larnuen Lo the mountains of taps the artosian wells of his beauty struck Paul greatly, Olympus and the ultra-modern love for his mother

country. of Troodos or Platres. Again and again this pattern The devout Cypriot vil re

1 found the people, Turks and of service and success is being lagers today say that he Greeks

alike, to be a special re-elected: whether in digging WILM convinced of the sue brand ost gentle

reasonable

new rigation channels, com- cess of his mission to con- sant. Political agitation non-

batting the wild goat menace, or ed almost exclusively confked to even in dealing with problems

vert the people; for

fair a land could not love the holhends of the cities--and of the Post Office and of adult

particularly the Communists, remain pagan." However who have undiubtedly taken that may be, history shows the ery "Umen with Greece that this islet just off the part of their policy of trying

caine

country.

tra

ampe de

education.

As I collected this material and talked to the old and young in coast of Palestine, and only the eastern Mediterranean,

military security in Cyprus, something of this spirit of adventure and pride infected half the size of Wales, b Being neither Jribor, Turk nor

me as well, When you read of I was

strikes and demonstrations able to talk freely Christian Cicek. the first

for-off

island and to that

unspoilt with all these people:

remember

for discover that fundamentally they paradise.

This every Greck speaker who shouts sim-kissed are in complete harmony.

plant le8.504;

"Enosis" (union with Greece), which Hadish Cokmy, where history la entely refutes the unpression for every Turk who hates the a living thing to a who ve which lurid press reports have Greek, there

that the given

are perhaps 6OU There

that Cyprus (or the simple, happy people who Arc La Rigons ruled during the reeks there) ure in a slate of content with prosperity

and Corsides; where Richard Coeur

Afrucat,

with the joy of working for their

I have just returned from a long visit to this

11.

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Lon look the fair Bests

fair Berengarla

of Navarve to be his bride and wher St tiege al

of England

sack to

their

Ideal Blend

to have flute the dragon. it is interesting, as a traveller one's hands, to thuit a million sturdy villagers with time

felds and prchards, study the culture-mixing which where Crusader eustles and suve-sive civilations have pro- Tonkish forts la almost click- Jo-cheek with shurines such IN that of Paphos, where the Venus

began Alt

In

Neither, for

duced in matry lands, Сургам year will And perhaps the ideal blend of cultures. Cyprus is not

Greece or Turkey That matter prope Bulsh Colony te Greek spendink, and follow the sites of the Greek Orthodox character Church, ethnologists tell Last spiren.

Though usi

of thes

EN

in carboscopy

has too much of ta own it 1

Greek and Turkish cultures that in when veins runs th

wak have shaped the lives of both Lleid

Venetian t Crusaders, Romuns and all the the maite mmilies their work

No Ferment

a lay. the

devoutnes

they

festivals

nnid

The Turkish

Wus

terling - miler warrior and tions who Dom Time In- Utus

period brought continuity of memorial have ruled this slutr-

and military deally important rol of government

vital to a small nation the Mediterranean,

ted by "eldre brothers". British ode has produced ecoNO- udvance, aty educational Striking evidence of the way in which the three peoples work ** other Important

Fundamentals munity nie the Turks the

in the amazing story Cypriots of Muslim fully ant given me

number of the eradication of the malaria Turkista tongue, wha

-#th of the population me quite,

Λ Turk. Mehma

Aziz, Intensely

loyal to their bellefs traditions, they take pride vlived that it would

ape sible to wipe out the deadly that Turkey In recalling

the unl21 British look over here nights mosquito, rallied the

viljogers the nation with the longest un- Grek-spanking! broken record of suzerainty, spray the whole country, literally brick by brick and pool by pool, The

and churches Ammense

St. Sophia with DDT. With the resources cathedrala-such as in Nicosia built

the of the Briti-h-initiated health

Locom Catholic Crusaders, have been server, the work was maintained since thessa for-olf pilshed. Cyprus became the first save by the Turkish community, nation In history to eradicate

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THE UNFINISHED LETTER

IN THE MARY CELESTE

ROM the deck of his ****The World's Strangest Stories No. 8****

brig. Del Gratia, Cap-

tain Morehouse watched the

Mary Celeste a couple of miles ahead on the same course. He was overhauling her fast and it was a pleasant day a meeting a for such

with

11 light calm northerly breeze,

ber

Hea

And the meeting-on Decem- 5, 1872, almost midway between the Azores and Portugal -was quite a coincidence. Cap- tain Ben Briggs had left New York for Genoa a couple of days before the Del Gratia sailed for Genou

The Mary Celeste carried 1,700 barrels

commercial alcohol.

In addition to Briggs and his wife and child there was a crew of seven.

ru!

Het have to rag Ben about

into

by DUDLEY POPE

luffing up into the wind and then paying off a couple of points, then luffing up again.

Deveau reached the ship and, followed by a

man, clum bered aboard. The decks were deserted. Aloft the masts "and Was Brigga ill?

creaked; Was the ship yards

the blocka damaged? Del Graula ran up an groaned and rattled and the can- "Urgent" signa), but that diri not rulse a reply, either.

NO HEADS

M° MOREHOUSE took the Det

Gratia clone down the Mary Celcate's weather side, and from a few yards off gave an almighty hail, But no heads appeared over the rail. And he saw there was no one at the wheel.

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son of a child's daughter Sophie.

head-Briggs'

The only sign of disorder in

Was in one of the whole ship the store cabine, where a drawer, Briggs small stock of ready normally containing tins of pre- rash was apparently untouched, turved meal, had apparently and so were severul trinkets been hastly cleared.

flis gold locket. including a crothes were really stowed away in drawers.

of the salis flapped and E banged. The wheel spun Jazlly as though unskilled phantom hands gripped the spokes.

Thoroughly alarmed, Deveau sent the boat back for Captain Morehouse.

VANISHED

was

Morehouse read the log. Like most logs on such a small ship,

In

It was brief. Tantalisingly brief these circumstances. There entries in the were only seven past month which related to the

The ship's position.

last of (1) days normal these, November 24

01 gave

positioa earlier),

west, latitude longitude 30.30 27.20 north.

VERYTHING

except that the captain, his wife, daughter and officers had vanished.

was no

Altikugh the ship's log was still en Lard, there trace of the ship's papers. These would hav Included bills of

0

TWO CLUES

As soon as he arrived aboard lading, muster lists and bills of T had only two clues: one of

the two men made their way aft and entered the main cabin,

but tidy. On the was empty

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health. Nor was there a chrono- meler or sextant aboard.

WHAT had happened? They

the hatch covers had ben taken afr and

upsido lay nearby,

with what A very worried Morehours down. A cutlass, table was a sewing machine and searched the galley, Everything might have been bloodstaina

on it, was also found.

The De Gratia had foun ! mysteries one of the greatest the sea has over offered; one which has never been sausfac- torily solved.

4 reel of cotton, a beside thimble and a small oil can.

Nearby were the remains of a meal and a letter begun by the mate, Richardson, tɔ his wife. It merely said: "Fanny, my dear

have fallen off the table had the ship heeled in a stiff breeze.

in order-except had vanished.

mally Wile "All the objects would

His eyes searched the spars his slow progress. Maybe he'd sound. The brigantine was float- and rigging: everything seemed some calm patches. since he was a pretty slipperying on her marks and there was no sign of any damage. But her skipper.

boat was missing-the boot falls Morehouse signalled the Mary hung like vines from the davits. There must be an answer to all this, he thought. He called Then the men aboard Del his mate, Oliver Deveau, and Oralia spotted that the Erigan- told him to take a bout and a Une's jib and foretopmast stay- couple of men and board the mads up with one exception. sail were backed. The ship was Mary Celeste.

Celeste and walted for a reply. But none come.

D

Nathaniel

R. H. S. BRYAN, "Poor old Manay boy," said psychiatrist of the The Dog, stroking The Man's bald head, "What's old Mensy children's clinic of boy want den?" Liverpool hospital,

“Don't ask him silly questions said: "If the nation is to when he can't reply," said The have self-assertive, virile Cat "You know perfectly well

what he wants, anyway," men we must have aggres-

meat's off the ratlon "Now sive little boys. It's the can't he have a bit of beet for Little Lord Fauntleroys who a treat?" asked The Dog, have the most troublesome "Do you know the price of prime English sirloin?" asked symptoms.'

The Cat, cutting herself another slice.

All the bunks were neatly

One pillow carried the impres-

that the cook

With Deveau he went forward to the fo'c'sle, Seamen's chests were still where they were nor

Washing was stowed. still hangling up to dry, and razors

still bright and sharp. Tobacco and pipes were lying around.

were

Everything normal except that the crew had vanished.

ubbins

"I didn't like Quem either." said The Cat.

birthday,"

lost "Sixty-four said The Dog

adid "That settice 1,"

"Sottles what?" asked

·

The Man whined and clawed at The Dog's leg with his little Caf hands.

**Thero's a good Mansy boy," Dog, said The Dog, taking something "He'll have to be put down off his plate and giving it to before he becomes a nuisance,“ The Man, The Wornan under said The Cat. the sofa growled louder.

"You feeding him at table again?" diked The Cat.

"It was only a bit of gristle.” said The Dog.

don't care what it was,"

to

Doveau Morehouse ordered and two seamen to aoll the

Celeste Mary

Gibraltar There the ship was arrested by the Admiralty Proctor, Mr Solly Flood.

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THE SHIP

The 282-ton brigantine built in Nova Scotia, began her career as the Amazon. Later she toda renamed Mary Sellars, but owing to a painter's error (he was a French- mau) the name on the

ended up transom

Mary Celeste

018

part-owner and would have to pay his share, his portion of the Falvage money would not have more than amounted to much his own share in the ship, and Apart from having to change his

his home in name, lose America and his livelihood, he open would have left himself

The experts including diver and a surveyor found to blackmall by the crew. nothing but a groove on each

side of the bow, about one inch

wide and

Could there have

oulbrick of pliegue

been

100

three-eighths of an an inch deep. It extended on each board? That was another theory; side for about six fect. The stains on the cutlass were found to be rust, not blood.

an

but again it could be easily dis- counted. The risk of infection would be far greater in an open boat than aboard Mary Celeste,

TERROR

also

Flood ther

conducted official investigation with tho Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty The

Court, four Royal Navy post- captains, a The

colonel of Royal

DARBARY pirates were Schu- Engineers and Captain

blamed. One Idea was that feldt, of the U.S.S. Plymouth.

the pirates approached and Cap- Their findings were that the tain Briggs took to the boat with

caused by a groove had been

his crew. The people in the boat Tharp instrument, but there was

were subsequently m038acred no trace of anything "calculated and the pirates' vessel was sunk

1 to create an alarmo of an ex- a tho men tried to board the plosion or fire."

"Not poor old Mansy boy?” maid The Dog.

►

ship-which

way,

was still

under

"He can't even win prizes of The Man Show because he's a monorel" Bald The Cat. I have never read the story

"That's only because he's of Little Lord Fauntleroy, but "No" said The Dog. "But said The Cat. "I won't have grown the wrong moustache for

A THEORY

It was

a convenient theory, my life partner, The Plucky as Mansy boy's hair's still com- them encouraged to pester us at his breed," said The Dog

since it might have accounted Little Woman, says the doctor ing out I know he needs vita-, meals,"

"with his hair and teeth con- has slipped up somewhere if he mins."

"They need a littlo fussinging out he's no use to himself or LOOD'S own report—which for the scratches on the hull. infers that this horrid little hero "He won't get them at 48, dd, when they get older," said The anybody else," said The Cai, contained a large number of But news travels fast in Africa. and Europeana and Ameriḍnns pound," said The Cat. "And Dog. #

picking up the telephone to ring inaccuracies added: "My own had always heard of previous what's wrong with his biscuits? "How old is he?" asked The the vet, "Anyway, it's kind-theory, or guess, is that the"] attacks. The "bush They're supposed to be full of Cat. meat, aren't they?"

wat a soppy sop.

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"Bupposed to be said The Letter From

nett in the end.”

A Frog

constant pressions

that

ין

like "Cor.

am not

crew got at the alhohol, and in pirate the fury of drunkenness mur-, telegraph" remained silent on dered the master ... his wife this occasion,

According to her Little Lord Fauntleroy spent a lot of his early youth knocking common litle boys for six, while his grandfather, the old carl, watched Dog.

and child, and the chief mate; By far the most likely ex

then damaged the planation-but by no means the behind the curtains of the ances- "That's that he always sald

that they tral home muttering. "Good when you begged at table," said

certain one--is bilmey" bows of the vessel with tho show,"

that. Captain something to that The Cat.

'vlow of giving it the ap Go and eat your DEAR Sir,-As

Briggs melt fumca from tho effect.

biscuits, you bad dop, he usgü reader of your column may and "Cor luvaduck." I

pearance

on of having struck In fact, it was because the to say. They're full of meat, I intrude on your valuable a snob but must my I am now rocks, or suttered

thought the ship in collisiori alcohol and I married ᄆ ledy and that

Fire. was going to blow up. moris dear little chap picked on com-

they did, "He didn't know any better," zuace to endorse the findios of glad that

the American scientist, Mr W. born in a pond near Gieton time between the 20th Novem- always one of sailor's greatest mon little boys that his grand- cald The Dog. father decided that he must be "Well, he knows now," said Frank Blair, who says that frogs whose children speak so beauti ber and the 5th December, terrors, would spread fast in a

not only take to each other but fully

anyone of them escape on board some vessel wooden ship: laden with highly TELL 77887 - Chtful heir to the carldom, The Cat.

bound for some North or South Inflammable alcohol, showing a proper contempt for "His teeth are not strong develop regional accents which could be a BBC announcer.

provent them

mating

r,, the lower classes and a promise enough for bircuita," said The PROV

with

Other frogs have not had the American port or the West In This would account for, the falock them all for six socially Dog.

strangerat

sama happy experience. There

hurried departure of all on omically when be grow

You can mash them up in I capoose I was fortunate to was Glasgow frog brought

inth

No one paid much attention board, and also the fact that a be born in a perid near Oxford south who fell in love with a to Flood's theory Mutineers, hatch cover was off; as soon as old The Cat, some

state potatoes."

University and had the advat lady frog from Cheltenham. if they left in the boat, would: Dumes were detected the hatch, "The Womani neoda more of hearing and the

typical Bootilais

Dog.

"She's had nothing to saved so from an unfortunate every hour of the day and stead of leaving her a floating attempt to clear them. The bost of watered marriage when I was young, he might, but as she was unable to mystery In busy shipping in which they got away may

lano, And, what would be hove capsized later, ly The lady frog In question understand a word he wald the their motive? They took no while are all being THE Dow sad The Cet hade her quich mine, then was born near London. She affair came to nothing and he thing from the hip and Ben bolalio stories so there

grown-o big and The Man said The

Gat

"Mice are full was beautiful, and, like most died of a broken hourt, She Briggs was well known as K and The Woman had shrunk so* of vitamine."

Cockneys, witty open hearted told ine efterwarde she thought kindly men Commercial als will be put forward to explain whall, that if wom The Dog and There may not be any miée generous and loyal was low he was gorging pr Cat (who, wedding at table to win weren't any there she married

cohol, hed Flood but lasted it what happened during the days wald The Dog.

fatuated and would have Hoping your wife and tuini

is almost unscrínkabisa

Gratia hove lin wwice their Bunday airtion of There

and

up.

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Dog And Cat Story nourishments too inks the voices of undergraduates, bis wistence, he propose to, her have scuttled, the Mary Celeste might have been listed in an

beer while The Man begged for told me to catch some," said The tibila by The Dog's chair and Culalaye tha:

bahan dahin Stowies under, they

don't suppo

batore