1955-03-08 — Page 4

✓ THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1955.

PIN-TABLES COME DOWN TO POLITICS

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By Sefton Delmer

Tokyo. drove to and from his office had won the election and was on

ambition to become Premier, the

ACHINKO" is the overy morning and evening. the point of realising his tinkling name the Pachinko must be killed, he Americans had him "purged." Japanese have decided, and the best way to They proscribed him from hold- given their latest kill it was to kill under- og any kind of pubile offre, national god-the pin-table,

employment and under-pro he had given in the past to a Because of the support Why Everywhere in Tokyo to duction which breed the Japanese ultra Natlonialist day you will find pachinko poverty and idleness on ciety and other little things like parlours-street-level dene which pachinko thrives. glaringly lit with neon lights Inside and out, raucous with blaring, over-amplified dance music.

that.)

RO-

Yes, I sul tinemployment and Well, Shozo Murala travelled Forget that by way of Hongkong to Peking. under-production.

In a short time he saw every- old picture of Jopan us a thriv

hive of Industry where one from the Education and Wel- everything the world wants is fare Ministers to the Commerce Whenever I

looked in, produced at piters vastly lower and Finance Secretaries and were too y that competitors In Chou En-lai himself. Now night ur day, they

he is back and I, in my turn, packed with devotees stand- Europe or America can meet. ing before long narrow rowR

To be sure, Japanese produr- have seen Shozo Murata. of pin-tables, grey-faced,

pron is up 60 percent on prewar It is fascinating--the immense

But h concentrated, intense, their evet.

many fields pro

this Typically hands manipulating levers turtion cunts in Japan are far impact the New China has made. old-guard and the 21

magnate, with the deliency of a safe above world prices,

produced is Japanese shipping quality of articles

shrewd man without a trace of breaker studying the com- Detow that of the cheaper pro-

Leftist illusions. But it la lination.

ducks of her competitors,

obvious, too, that he wanted to

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went costs

impressed. that Japanese Some of Tokyo's pachinko

to have "open mind" parlours have as many as higher than halmur costs abroad, rendy takes three or four med. there floors, like a depart. cause I

Japanese for produce what Ape Frammed fish, German or American ment store, ench the with machines and players.

labor

in

the of worker produres

Aane.

art

same

Markets

of

HE machinery

in many

Japan's industries i and worn out,

of

often

It is completely crazy and The completely horrible. prizes # pekels cigarettes, cheap fountain pens, dolta, boxes of sweets. and that kind of Thing, Never money.

Unrest

ONE Japanese friend of she wed to draw from nearby

mine

puts

of the

Chou En-Ini spent four hours old Shozo nnd I would say they were four

most he has put in profitable hours

ΟΙ profitable

In

lifetime a talking.

For what he has had to say har gone back not only to

Premier Hatoyama- from whom

Ferment In The Middle East: Part

DESERT WARFARE UP TO DATE

Another genoration can produce another Lawrence of Arabia. In the wasto-

of fand

the

"Empty Quarter," man live in perilous isolation and fight for water because they like the life. To like it. you must loam Arab philosophy, and the first lesson is the definition of Mallsh," the most fre- quantly used Arabic word. It means "Don't worry."

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Sanau.

HE desert exerts a

lure for a

tertain breed of men who grew up in the most clvilised centres of the world. Lawrence of Arabia was such a man. Another is "Jock" Snell Major Ian Shell, who has been called "another Arabia."

Lawrence of For him, the

il provoked The announcement emptiness and stillness of

The works

AIA

By Harold Guard

(PHOTOS BY CHARLES DAWSON)

In a

"How they get up there is a puzzle," said the pilot. "There's a road up the mountain, but it would take a Tenzing to climb IL"

1

I thought of Tenzing again as our plane looped over a razor- and

backed mountam chain

dodged a conica) 0,000-foot peak' as we settled down to an im- provised landing strip.

"That's Mount Everest" the

pilot laughed, pointing to the peak. "Even the Lavies call it that now."

Our first

03 greeting

we stepped off the plane was the shout "Koop your head down!" from Tom Rideout, a 21-year- ald Flight-Lieutenant who com mands the Aden Levies guarding this desert outpost. And as we dudged our way from the plane to the tent camp, with the distant sound of rifle are in our cars, We Boon understood the local

with preoccupation

"Mount Everest,"

Deadly Aim

The conical mountain, which overlooks tha Levies camp, is infested with Arab "bandits," who use long-range rifles, teid scopic sights and deadly aim to snipe at the camp.

Levy troops stand guard at the outpost near Qua Ba Masulium, north of Aden. Above all Japan is badly hit that he would recognise Peking desert grandeur has a fas- to the most Important | eination with which traffic by having To import from far-bust

"I've been in these parts for

few minutes we were industrial leaders

jamis und wide-screen seven years," he said, "and I back to the aircraft, the door away # expensive freight rates politient and

ir. Japan There men pay a lot

cinemas cannot compete.

didn't get

here myself until was slammed and Bryan revved A basic raw materials like coking of attention to Murata.

cordon of jook-outs We've had some the two engines into the swirling scampered up the lower ranges coal, iron ore, and salt. These

"I would miss all this if I September.

of mountain ever go home," Snell told me to boot and there's reason and to take off into the blind- with the agility

to believe that more is in the Ing sun.

began returning the goats and the offing" we gazed across

fire. Another shot echoed Our pilot, Flying officer D.R. rolling, sundy waste. "But

next trip into the deep among the mountains and Ride don't make the mistake of Bryan of Portsmouth, pointed to desert was to Qaa ba Masulhan out pointed to the wisp of blue

"Lond the small stone fork. They just which calling the desert empty and buried six of their boys under Masullum," taking its name from it came. still. The desert is

a there not long

the family of the local Shelk. It ago-killed by

Is 100 miles from Aden, an hour living thing. Natural and marauders.' human

One of the Levies, armed with by light plane or several days camouflage make

a bandolier,

someone pot curved knife and by truck-with things less obvious then

We chose to go by plane.

down the chin and Monchuris. to mental trat unrest among the Japanese,

pachinko

Coking coal, for instance, is the United caused by psychotic shock now imported from

to their confidence through the lost war, fancy there

is a good deal in that,

States

HOU EN-LAI gave Murata

the whole works in a long istorical retrospect he covered Nor does Зарап ану

longer such points as these:-- enjoy a sure market for her pro- duce in Southeast Asia.

oute

THAT there had only Much of that are, owing to the chaotic been an invasion of Japan by

of the Asiatic the peace-loving Chinese.

It is another straw point ing to the political difficul- mirmanagenent

ties we are going to face here when Japon is called on

to walk all by herself onte again.

t

the

Nationalist succeeded

governments

the

Dutch has

which British and THAT the Chinese had at least too shaken off the yoke of foreign become

oppressors and exploiters.

unrejlable un a customer.

So what did old Shozo Murala THAT all Aslatte Taces must to prosperity But I see another potent deride to do about it. He made raise themselves reason for the pachinko cult up his mind to travel to Com- but of their own resources. (But in the purious economie munist China and see what he he did admit the need for some

could do about reopening normal outside help.) Japanese, trade relations with that country siluation of the particularly of the clerks and perhaps normal politien) and ex-students who gamble relations as well. here.

10

THAT the United States, In her postwar polley, had sought

divide China by Premier Haloyama, to whom Chiung while Soviet Rurala, her alding That was the view, too, of he bronched the plan, was de- great brother-country, had given lighted. {atorin WDB not generous help to the forces seck- Shozo Muruta, a 75-year-old afraid of treading on American ing to unite the country. veteran shipowner and close corus. He enjoys 1. friend of Premier Hatoyama.

Like many other Japs 011 Shozo Murata loathed the sight of the gurish, shriek-op today, he has an old per- (Way ing pachinko parlours as he back in 1940, after Hatoyama

Re-opening

Ronal score to

setile.

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Na Chinese soldiers had ever

with Ho RCTved

Chi-trình h Indo-Chine and ELO Chinese would ever be sent Into Indo- China, Chou was adamant on that.

Korea? Chinese Intervention there was purely a matter of defensive precaution to prevent the Americans from reaching and crossing the Yalu River,

Our

means

of smoke which indicated whence

they are in our gaudy civm high velocity rifle, took up the hetting at you most of the time, water too. Every tima' we sond

sation."

Just then a whining bullet pinged off a nearby rock. Snell barked orders in Arabic to the Hadraumaut Levies with us, and they started answering the fire In the direction of a distant ridge.

story:

War Songs

"We fire flares in the night watch to see the enemy crawling "You see what I incati," said their ballies in the sand. Last

night, we

tod someone Snell.

arowling towards the fort in the Major Ian Snell joined the darkness. We held our fire Are Sussex Regiment as a drummer until we were sure it was an boy, and is now one of the

When it antiny.

was almost British "advisers" who

help the desert against native sheiks keep the peace in upon us, we saw it was a camel."

His

shrieked with marauders laughter. and warring tribes. He comes

Snell took us over to see the from Washington, A village in Sussex,

where Jomo Kenyatta ancient well which keeps the stayed during his exile from outpost and any peaceful visitors Kenya.

supplied with the reblood of the desert.

Empty Quarter

comrades

Near by was a battered Land Rover which he uses to roami the trackless wastes on recon- naissance.

Wo flew to Sansu in a small "That was the jeep in which plane loaded down with bales Queen Elizabeth foured Aden," of empty sandbags, colls of he grinned "You wouldn't barbed wire and trench shovels, think sq to look at it now." Sanau is 500 miles northwest of Snell called some of the Levies Aden, in the Rub al-Khall or around to share the lemonade "Empty Quarter," where the which we had brought along in border of Saudi-Arabia, the the plane in seed thermos flaska. Trucial Coast states and the These are first-class chaps," Protectorate vaguely he said. "I live with then

Ader merge.

a

ing the plane, rhythmically

Alone rero-just the sort for Sanau consists of nothing but taking care of things up here." Formosa? Chou, of

brackish well course,

and a small A crow of Levies was unload- claimed it as part of China stone fort which guards it. There peized and occupied by the aro ELO local residents only chanting Arab war songs, when Americans. They would not rest Snell and 70 flerce Levics. If great gusts whipped across the until the Americans had been there is all under Sanau, rro one sand and filled the air with -expelled, he promised.

has probed for it. But it is one million tiny knives. We of the most hotly contested tightened cur head SCERVES Murata said he got

strongholds in the desert. the im-

around our faces, and the tatt Soell, who wears the scarles and bronzed pression that Chou was not ready

Snel! shouted kafla or headdress, for any kind of compromise in

of the Arabic caths in a gravel voice the matter of Formosa. The Sultan of Mukulla's Levies, told to spoed them up.

us we were the first "foreigners". "You'll have to get in the air most interesting thing to my mind was that there was no kind besides three British officers before this wind takes hold or

ever to act foot in Sapor, of protest from Chou En-lai against Japanese plans to rearm.

Trade plans

PERHAPS realistically

<ro Chou calculatect this army, air force, and navy which the.Americans want the Jamrose to, build up would not really amount to much of threat.

you'll never get out,” he said.

out

lan "Jock" Snell

eyes

A Handramet Legionnaire

In twos and Watched them, threes, literally disappear before the rocky against

"You ice that wadi down there with the small stream. That's our only water supply and that's where the bandits get their patrol for water, there's On the way, we flew low over a night. We always have to fight a lown perched on a 4,000-foot for water up there. prak, with a dozen "skyscrapers"

Levier-my khaki-plad of five and six sto:cys clearly crowded mound us as Rideout backgrmind They also have a visible.

described the fighting habits of blue ofoth droped over Ono "We call it Shangel-la," the the enemy. They laughed de shoulder. pilot sold. that no

The

Their name for this cloth is the same Arabic word

We know it's inhabited; enlpers crouching behind rocka, they put killed."

to wrap around their bodies it

that there are crops planted on the slops end goats grazing."

massiv wall ringed the mountain top and in the centre was a pink stone building leftier

savagely

and gave their own "It's so inaccesible lightedly one knows who lives pantomime version of the bandit for coffin,' and the cloth is used

sighting, and grimacing

Rideout showed us a bullet as they squeezed the trigger.

"They paint their bodies with bole in his head scarf near the indigo blue," the young officer tape of his neck..

At explained. "Dark bodies painted

yesterday. thought it, was the wind, the bullet richochetted against the wing of our truck." Another burst of fire, and our pilot said: "I hope they're not potting at my crate. We went Into a tent for a qulator conver- sation. "It's

than the others, apparently the blue become almost invisible first you thi

resklence of a man of note.

against theso rocks, I have

This town, built on a 4,000 ft peak, is known to RAF

pilots as "Shangri-la."*/

THE MOST TOLERANT NATION IN THE WORLD. AND THE CRAZIEST?

BRITAIN

JUST how stupid can the

SUBSIDISES SEDITION

By J. L Hays

but

really interesting UD Rideout said, wika ubtful look about expoitier his guests to agree. "Real Klyling country. The Romans were around here once....

"We have found great sinks of marble lying about which could only have come from some sort of building. There are two acqueducts not far away, and their construction is undoubted- Ly Romans. We found an- alabaster sab with Roman inscriptions on it among the rocks way up on the exprp- ment."

Malish

He showed

us a small sack of shiny Maria Theresa dollars, the only acceptable currency" - in this wild country. The Levies use them to buy their rations from Lood traders.

Yesterday I

I paid seven of there dollars worth about five shilings

ngs each for a goat. Wa buy all our fresh meat goats and alleep-and the price varica with the eniping,” he said,

"asked the Levies what they thought about having to fight for"Every drop of water, they 150,

“Malish," "Not to worry") sold. Ahmed Abdullah Qutaibk tubérculosis street collection bo- a handsome officer of the little causo' doing so would have "Im-force, which is on the dert piled co-operation with . the night and day against ambush British."

and sudden attack,

Nicosia, Cyprus.

British be! The Cyprus Or perhaps more" subtly he Government (which really It seems that the decision to, is, a pure Grecian education. It knew how sensitively the

Yet, slowly but surely, the means the British taxpayer) maintain the Hellenic charac- is no wonder that many diehard Japanese would be likely

is paying about £70,000 a of the island's secondary Enotists can only counter poll- - prestige of the gymnasia is react to any threats against

in the tical logle with the emotional actually waning-and without their right to rearin similar to year to assist. 15,000 Cypriot Bucation was taken theso utterod by Moscópr

teenagers to develop anti- 100% moon after Britain res- declaration: "I feel Greek--so Government action having been

Cyprus from the Ottoman I am Grock!!! against German rearmament. British ideas.

Empire. Perhaps it appeared At the same time it is im

ԿԱԱՆ very commendable at the time; Was Here In this Crown but no wonder the British have posible for a British adminis-

*V*trator this Enosis problem

"puro

And of course

Chou Insistent that Japan-China

on their

to crilicito

takon,

Commerce la

But our pliot was getting fid- cocking and experienced

at an apparently empty blue

ety,

Leve

we had better be getting our

sky outside the tent, they

of here before the winds stort

or also we won't makon

suld.

booming £m 1:2

A squad of Levice accid

with cocked

trade should' and couid be de Colony, the British are hands now, with four or five Hellenic education" now, how- Cyprus; and fewer parents veernus :

of Education in Athens and

plano:

with

eeping wobbled off over a dried rivar

bed

yeloped" - provided--and here helping to maintain. co was the point Japan showed a educational secondary generations of Cypriots already over mildly, without sparking happy about spending about ensorted ur back the H

"processed" In these schools,

£100 over a six-year period, on off a first-class row. There was independence of the schools which are adminis

"Malish," the Lo

Lovies grinned even uproar here when the classical education designed Americans.

tered by the Greek Ministry

Government insisted on its right to it their children for pro-awo sad farewell, and, wlstred

| them safety.. to have its way in the member, fosslonal: euroons" by way of Indeed, ho was as good as his

They, stood in the open, How is it that Cypriots can ship of local school commitless Greek, universities. word. In a few weeks, Murata staffed" by Greek teachers want to be worse off, by turning "and Nationality Communists; schools that: tosch, shorthand, i warunt Everestal, na four-plane »

in range, of the uniperson Cypriot revealed to be, the Chinese using Greek text books and away from the British Common branded of the G

Bilke

and promptly kypewriting trade delegation would be visit following Greek curricula. waith and seeking truck con

Bộ the "Government'alyses, Jopen to negotiate with

teg1? The answer lies in those notion Violation of the Jaonnere traders interested" in" And, of course, these, schools, ambel hed by Dong principles of freedom China trade

secondary schools (gymnasia, ne particoes and portraits of the Like the leaders of the Greek they are known) sew the train Greek royal fandly,

Orthodox Churry?? the "stand ola, Mej Murata la con- ing and retrilling ground or

thaneel Fu cannot keep; out vinced he Anm) brought back the Endali... movement, led by The boys in their short pollues Bome, of the row something which; will help him | black bearded Archblahop: peaked Germanio-looking: capr kill- unemployment in a Japer, J Makerlow 113 which he found the girls in their seinnahm anch pechips

}esoure) trepitor of Cyprus alipe and Brailor balm,-reon ver the pachir

Cirence.

#pure. Hellanio-échnost

Usthe: Coronatio

popu

the

up the side of a mountain,

The lite plane twisted and

turned amon

fossed about

the peaks, antid