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"The next course will be two of those UNESCO bods they sent here to find out what witch doctors' patients die of.”

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1955.

VINOBA BHAVE OF INDIA:

Landen Express Service

One Man Against Communism

By SIMON MAYNARD

FRAIL, Ascetic up some of their land. Thon

A looking man, bare he redistributes the land

footed, barehended to

Peking nave taken a keen n- terest in thus conference which, they hope, will mark the begin- ning of a line-up by the anti- colonial countries in the two contineris,

the

Bul the majority of the coun-

goodwill and

homeless And work- and clad only In toin cloth less labourers in the in today carrying out A area. revolution that may well "The Indian Government tries taking part in this con- have a profound effect on is helping India to feed feronce will be members of the the future of mankind. millions who were pre- Colombo Plan, through which Vinoba Bhave la his name. viously starving. It hns they gain technical and, financia)

aid from And he is doing more to brought the benefits of ****

the West. And you пу be sure that Vinoba defeat Communism in Asia hydro-electric schemes, irri- Bhave's land campaign will be than any other living man. gation and new methods. mentioned as an example of There was a time when But this is not enough. It what can be achieved through tolerance the Western world dis is the spirit which counts which the Communista affect to missed Gandhi as a fanatic in the battle against starva- desplac of little consequence. He tion."

All the same, I think the proved them wrong. Now Up to date, land owners have Western case could be immense

If something Bhave, a disciple of Gandhi, given him more than a million ly strengthened

of the Bhave his campaign

technique was is proving other postwar developing Inst. Although

used in British colonies where prophets to be wrong.

mun, suffering

have racial haired from

and strifo

The

chronic

If I Communists have duodenal ulcers

much harm. Inissionary matarla, he has walked nearly Christinn

couki always held that there

call 7.000

7,900 miles DICTOSS India to achieve in the White Highlands of Kenya what Bhave has done,

much it might do

to improve the Bettlers clotions between and the Kikuyu,

unless you

iteres. And

sick

20 no agrarian revolution persunde people to give him

confiscate land land. and conscript the peasants, love," he says "If you have four “I have come to lout you with forcing them to work twice sons, regard me 1 * Nth and

as hard for their Commun- give me my share of land."

master's as over they former land

did for the

owners.

But Bhave has proved that an agrarian revalu- tion CANIA be carried- out through love. Love and new religious fervour, And his philosophy has spread Rcross the vast Indian n- tion and wrought a miracle of religious revival.

flis mission ix to stade land owners lo

ANOTHER OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STÔRIES

ין

MARY READ-WIFE,

SOLDIER,

WAN Jamaican

typical afternoon,

PIRATE

By Dudley Pope

It was the life she wanted

with the tail-end of the Trade Winds rattling ders a731

the until she fell in love with an- tuning-fork hum Int

ble fromper, a banksome young nir. quito filling the

Very quickly her love when Fleming.

him Blied her for the Governor. Sir Nicholas.

whole life eqtip- Lawes, wrote “June 12th, ment

went #721, on his dispatch and polished her hor carefully signed it.

1 IM.S. Mary made a Fal passage Whitehall should reading it by August, and the would be pleased with the Te- ports he was enclosing on the trvall of the Pirates who have been execuwd here, which has had good effect, these Seas hav-

ing been more free of late from such Villains than for Sonio time before."

It would amuse Whitehall to

stayed dirty and un- ground

The desperate Mary then re

Trouper that she vealed to the was in Woran, and the sturtled man quickly fell in love with

and congratulated himself on finding a secret mistress.

Mary, however, was virtuous If there was any courting, Mary with marriage in view. So the trooper married

her her-after the accruri nat

was revealed--and all their

sales, it

AX

was

see he had caught a couple of eers attended the wedding. women pirates. Pity he could

HOL have hanged then along

with the mACH),

chance

They

bolh

left the

envalry

From a Contemporary Print.

SIGNIFICANT

A wrathy Indian once gave him 10,000 acres. But he has also re- ceived many Litty plots, inte larger than a small back garden, who are domated by peasants themselves poor. Such is the power of his religious teaching, Jis shenificant that every party in india

(except the Com- inunit) approves

Bhave' Pe policy. True, some of the mure give modern members of the Con- gress Party argue that the polley dces no increase crops. They Say s 15 Uvices without modera agricultural methods to supple- ment it.

Bus, psychologically, I K 01 tremendous importance. 11 r:moving the feeling of being unwanted that frustrated

pessante for generations. It gives every man

същите ов

feeding his family. And it does sical the Communist thimdir.

Gandhi gave Hinduism

very embarrassoi about Anne's Christian slant. It was the same,

attentions.

Sho decided reveal to Anne that she too was

21 woman.

imbued ancient lo

religion, but with the ethics of New Testu- ment teaching. Bhave has car- ried on the good work,

Anne, knowing only too well About Hackam's throat-cutung jundencies, Mary should

suggested

that

reveal her secret

Today to the captain as well, just to be on the safe side of the

razor.

In the past Hinduism, with taboos and ancient precepts, retted Indian agriculture. a revitalised Hinduisin Bhoodan, ΟΙ produced voluntary land-giving, which is achieving through Jove and tolerance what Mao Tsung close brought about

through hatred

The days of sunshine and

1001

were drawing to a

hus

for the pirates. Rackum and and oppression.

his mistress

and

Anne, Mary her artist husbusd, all had but few brief months left 11 which to

their Inwless

njoy but happy existence.

Rackam, in the autumn 1720. started

*

of

ho

IMPRESSED

raiding the Oddly enough, Bhave won his harboury anci In lots of the Orst real battle in the campaign south and wes! coasts of

This against the Communists. Jamaica. On October 19

ruma

was in the state of Hyderabad schooner com- captured

four your's aga. Here the manded by Thomas Spanlow.

8,000,000 peasants had lived like The next day, in Dry Harbour serts under brutal tyranny from Bay, he saw another sloop and the land ownCTS. and went to Bruge, where they out-after all, there was honour captured it, anchoring nearby. But this coasting was to prove .j a public-house called even among pirates,

Governor, fatal the Dhe Three Shoes, Mary thought

the only She did

possible Nicholas Lawes, sent out a that at last she had found hap- thing-picked

with scop commanded by a quarrel reas-but within a short time

Captain the other man, challenged him her husband died.

to a duel, named a lime two While the war was on the inn hours before the duel with her prospered, but as soon as pence

lover was to take place and *vos declared the customers loaded her pistols. mostly soldiers went away.

in to put an end to this state of Communist guerillas marched Sir affairs

They killed Land acized owners,

whole villages and put a now tyranny in place of the old one.

Barnett.

When Barnett'a sloop have sight Rackam weighed anchor as fast as he could and salted but the wind fluky.

proved

What strange

thes brought two

women bots unknown to each other, nas querading as men-together

pirate

Bhip

in the West Indles? It was a stranger we that made Anne Bonney full in love with the brave and tem peramentai seaman who turned Mary sold the Inn and, again Mary and

mun went Barnett was luckler-catching out to be

to be Mary Read.

disguising herself th a man,

nahore for the fight, Mary re- or four years before went to

an offshore breeze be ran down Join the turned to the ship alone, leay- and rapidly overtook Holland to born was

hot

ing the man dead on the beach, whose crew with the [X- Very mother married a sailor.

Rackam, before Mary met ception of Mary Reid and soon afterwards the husband

her artist, bad found himself a Anne Bonneypanfcked and said goodbye to his young bride

mistress--Anne In peace-time promotion was and sailed from England a slow-much too slow for Mary, strange woman was the daugh

This ran below.

never so once again, still masquerad- ter of a lawyer

thy as a man, she went to sea. in Cork Although the father This time she joined A ship was a goorl lawyer, he was a bound for the West Indies. bad husband, and when

Three

Mary Read

from which be

army.

Bonney,

and was born

hia

י

Voyage returned

Tho young widow--- she was assumed to be weaŤ tu live with her mother-in-law.

A But the ship was captured by maid presented him with and a baby boy was born, Very

daughter (Anne Bonney) he like his father commented the pirates. They took out the cargo

and, finding that Mary was the left his wife and took the maid hvitation proud grandmother,

only "Englishman" aboard, and Anne to America

Rackam.

Bhavo, despite warnings that he was risking his lite, moved into the area. Ho ignored tho Communist terrorists, but con- centrated

on preaching his views to the remaining land owners. He got his strife died down. his land, and presently the trouble and

to

a

Prime Minister Nehru was 50 impressed by Bhave's success in that he sent a plane Hyderabad for him to come to New Delhi. declined the Bhave politely plane; sald

come he would The two women, Infuriated Delhi on foot in his own time. by such cowardice, stayed on Next month there will be deck and shouted to them to conference of tho Asian and come up and fight

like men.

African porers at. Bandung in When they declined the Indonesia. Both Moscow.

Mary

fired her platolo at them through the took her with them. The ship When she grew up Anno companionway killing at lenst

a sailor without 1 Within n couple of years was then allowed to continue married

alling in bis pocket This however, the merry

widow ita

passage. found that as a result of some Some time after that with was too much for her avaricious

dalliances she was Mary a tough pirate. and an hor out.

promptly turned Barnett another baby. She experience somman still safe

romantic

exporn loft her mother-in- with the secret of her '90%-

the

father, who

to

and within

扛

two.

With the pirates captured, took his prize And prisoners back to Fort Royal. All were tried by a Court of Admiralty n St Jago de lą law's hom

home and went to live-in she found herself in

a vessel

Vega on November 10-17 and The commanded by "Calleo Jack"---- country.

couple BOL

aft for contenced to death." Tho boy, however, died and Captain John Rackam,

Providence

find employ- Mary Read was born. Wilhin

Instead found "Calico When the two womens were One day the pirates captured ment. short time the mother was nearly a ship in which there was an Jack," wha took a liking to brought before the Court

The bride they ploaded penniless. She had never told antlat. They promptly brought the sailor's bride.

they werb her mother-in-law of the boy's him on board to join them and also took a liking to "Calico pregnant and Mary – declared doats and promptly decided to

short that her husband and she had siresily decided to lend lawful they were

récund, The two women, "Pray'd' that The artist fortunately fell in her sex and met her

Anne, before Mary sevenlod Boution be ebayodo yours passed and Mary love with Mary, but just before

artlet, It was, for-the time bring. grow into a strong youth. But they were to be married in the look a chig to the courageous Both women were Laima Lor

young man. She had watched prison died, pirate fashion he quarrelled him always in the front of a was

· and the day' before he grandmother, astore and wile her went the crown a with another member of the week. Mary was hired out sa crew, and was challenged

boardbag party, always ready allows Point art cut ed to a

for somo dangerous, job, And Backam wa Bookaboy to Frenchwoman.

allowod sho had fallen in love with. Anna : All wha, had to any par of this life The

harried Mary, die

Etunon she was sorry to don; blay man-of-war", De... · govorack that hor kives, was, due

Blackam oldaca las in me did not mát to fight to the dents with pistoi jonious and probead cutting loa min he neat no Bave

ams became vidiently there but if he had touch 3. an incuntry soul- and word) and although the Amy throat

www Its love with him, the-did: would be a pity, tòc low much by Ban 2nd

Jory fall in love for the second time she had been given. It pong Mary off as her brother, t, as bofore and she reversu guised as a mark;

It was as violent an on board Ragicam's ship.

gullible mother-in-law gave

The her a crown a week for her to him that she was a woman. "grandson."

the

Mary grow urod

and joined

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