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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL

SMELLS

vanish

SILVER

stays bright

1955:

Sleep, My Pretty One SATURDAY

S

By Chapman Pincher▲

By GWENDOLEN GAZELEY

ᏚᎻᏫᎡᎢ .

STORY

And why, d'ye think? ing up the good earth with great e raggle-tackle. Kerrys had by meself tonight. Then you blessed step they took. It was "

DOES chlorophyll, the green tell ye.

for

This gas is also responsible

household spells ranging from cooked cabbage to pleasant drains.

"DN-

on"

MOLOM

500,

Dick"

0 you think I'm wasn't complaining when Ave Ma Kerry leading with her heels her to give up the only bit of at rattling like kettledrums, had sleep she did get? Then I had going to the devil? went to bed at nine o'clock

aight. Not me!

given me the urge to fair them, me iaca, Me ways have

To sink the dust in a glass of changed completely? Then I got this fob in England, stout and rejoice me heart with "Molly," I go out

Open-casting, they call it. Tear-

become me consuming

desire.

can trot off to bed as soon as a grand sight to see them all clawing machine to get at the

"Molly, me dear," I said one you please How's that, eh?" so happy and I wasn't the only coloring matter extracted

coal underneath. Making the night, when I could bear it ne. Her blue eyes filled with tears. one to be enjoying their captes from plants, really get rid of When Molly, and me were

and pleasant land

"Tim Maloney, sighed she, for there were curtains flicker- longer, and she was filling the amells? Said the scientists....married five years ago in dusty, arid hell. A job to give hot water bottle.

"I think I "You knew my amiction when ing at every opposite window. It does.

County Down, the first thing a man a thirst like Lot's wife. just take a ture down the road." you married me. But in the Oh, & was singing all the way.. They made the announcement she whispered to me

"It's suppertime," she mapped. selfishness of your heart you And what better way of starting "Didn't you say you were choose to put it aside. You'd a brand new year? after experiments with hydro- our wedding night.. was,

have me lying waiting for your gen sulphide gas, which smells Tim, me darlin', I hope

hungry?"

Wall Id hardly time to 10- Well, what could I do? I coming and I'd never get a win member me, toes were freezing like rotter eggs,

you don't snore, 'course I'm

watched her ladling cut the all night" an awful light sleeper."

THATS how it started really, sausages and fried onions, and

Molly in tears, I could never when the wassall stopped and the row started. That was when That and the fact that a man there was a kind of bitter abide

1 back- "Well come with me then," the front door opened like a I don't snore, as she found gets to thinking there's some-brightness round her eyes. So

cuckoo and, without out; but it was true she was a thing more to life than going to I sat down to man supper with I pleaded. "Come with me them." rd glance of a word of fare- "We are making experiments terrible light sleeper.

There beg

bed at nine o'clock at night, out a blessed word.

"Come with you I won't, to to 500 whether chlorophyll

wasn't a rattle of the blind or even with Molly, You we'd

She thought that was the end that rowdy place. But I's well, Pa Kerry shot throuh, and absorbs other gases," said Gova fy walked across the ceiling come a long way from the Baly- of it. But it was only the beaching to go you are, then go One of his daughters tried to sat among the Christmas roses. crament scientist Mr Edward she wasn't on to in a second.clurie days, and though the town ginning. On summer nights, you must. I'll wait up for you pull him to his feet, and him Stroud.

Seems she would lie awake for where we settled was hardly the after a long hot day on the job, But it's malebstinkes me eyesT

yelling all the time like a man o' Moure, I was 3 hours just staring at the dark Mountains

possessed. there was I with me nese pressed, be needin' tomorrow." ness; staring an

and thinking of the prince with me money, and we to the window like a kid out- silliest things.

got a house with a bathroom. side a candy shop, and there was Chlorophyll is used in many

"Did ye sleep well?" I always Molly was satisfed.

Molly preparing for bed. household products to banish smelis. Has it other uses? Re-asked her in the morning..

regular as clockwork. ported Mr Stroud

a wink," she'd say. Traces of hydrogen sulphide

Yet there she was with the in the air are responsible for

trying-pan,

her

eyes sparkling silver Larnishing. So paper blue as

ever, and her checks

NOT that she didn't notice I which has been soaked like moss roses. That girl was

such a terrible light sleep. NOT

was restless. She did, bless chlorophyll solution, and dried a miracle.. will keep cutlery untarnished Those days we lived in re you understand and it's true, her, and tried to help.

nights when pub and "We'll both go out tonight" for weeks.

Articles

in jewellery show-rom a short doze, my

and, and in all the nights apart some

Kerrys came together, it was a she'd say, "But we'll have to be Molly

back carly, for sleep after mid- enses jaid on chlorophyll paper never shut an eyelid. It was a

I tried everything to make he; night, I cannot." should also stay bright... waxworks of a village where

like a Christian. Pills and And how could I tell her that "In our experiments at the we lived.

sleep Oce pub there was, potions, and poppyheads in her it was a stroll between the Chemical Research Laboratory, and that no more liv

lively than a Teddington,

found WC

morning pithills & was wanting; nor the catacomb with ancient mummies pillow-but every silver and

copper

claim to be the oldest was just the same. She'd hardly blue calm settling on the willow- wrapped in cholorophyll paper

Not closed her eyes all night. Molly herbs that grow there? It was seemed to bother. She to join in with the high jinks of remained untarnished even that I'minded the rust on the never when placed in an atmosphere place. In spite of Molly's didn't seem to care whether she the Kerrys and tune me ears to their hearty singing Poor Molly! containing 80,000 times the sleepless nights, she managed to slept or not. But I did!" amount of hydrogen sulphide appear as luscious a peach as a For, watching the Kerrys Her being such a terrible suffer. in the air," said Mr Stroud. man could wish for and I prancing down the street; old from insomnia, how could I ask

I

Other Uses

that

articles Laitant of Balycluzie.

25

...Well, she was und she 't She liked the house fine wasn't! but there was a pub on one side and this Kerry family on the other. Both were lively, but she said it was bediam. She was

.bit of barney

t

I looked out of a window

and there were the MiGs

RUSSELL SPURR, London Daily Express correspondent, ends his impressions of ya two-month stay in the new "People's" China

I

I

SHALL never forget that has disciplined the world's the morning a" MiG mest unruly race. It has taught them puntuality. Lately it has slid past my nose.

taught them how to queue. was aboard the Man-

Railway stations, where churian express, still dozing people used to Bght for their off à

of scate, "beavy dinner

have become porade noodles, pickled garlic and grunds. vodka.

Security police in fur caps and battle green uniforms marchal

PEKING

CHINA

HANG

FORMOSA

HONGKONG

Thero was 4 long pause. Waiters came back crestialler

gised, "but will carry in future."

So I sat down again, That was the divil of it. I sat down. again while Molly washed the dishes and sang Marushia..

And there I was all sunumér,

out then.

trapped lik

like a fly on a Bypaper, MA Kerry came the wretched victim of me" You should, have seen her wife's insomnia. What a

length glasses steaming with rage and of dusty days and thirsty nights her great white arms pumping unrolled in front of me, and no the air like pistons. It was more fullness in my life than lovely to hear her deep rolling dry pea. I still loved Molly, phrases and never once did her mind you. She was the sweet voice crack or go shrill. I was est little gaoler this

sorry when the lodger came up Heaven's gates. But me blood and lifted her bodily away from was running thin for want of her husband just as she was something savoury. I was get going to batter his poor little

head with her handbag. ting desperate.

side of

but it was

Oh, it was a beautiful row, for it wasn't Anished ther. Even when I crept back into bed with me teeth chattering, THEN came New Year's Eve, could still hear the clatter, and Just the night for blowing it wasn't unul morning they away the memory of an aged year sung. Auld Lang Syne. T Jike the froth off a tancard and missed me sleep seeing the new days rise as worth it. sparkling bubbles to wink at the Yes, I'd missed me sleep, but brini, But it wasn't just a drink at the side of me lay Molly,

band' that beckoned me, It was the her

under her check, lively company and their gay, breathing like a blessed angel, beedless welcome of another year.

"What a shindy!" I whispered. "Enough to wake the dead.' I moochea about all the eveo" But never a word Said she. ing cursing myself for a poor She was fast asleep. weak fool, and half reaching And next morning, when I for me hat when Molly's eyes asked her, "Did ye sleep well, were not in my direction.. But

know Molly?" do you The rest of the train was nothing came of it. We were looked me straight in the eye packed as tight as a Promenace tucked up easy at ten o'clock with

without a blush? concert. Haggard half-frezca while the moon outside polished people stood swaying sleepty the frost like silver. The bells among mountains of luggage.at midnight woke me-ve Corridors were impassable. were sleeping in the front and (as nice a people in the day-

she

.."Never. а wink," said she

Well, thanks be to the Kerry's

time as you could ever hope their chimes had hardly But my coach was cordenca nished when along came the

to meet), you don't see me with of. I had a four-berth

me nose "pressed to the win Com Kerrys past the window 35

dow

1 now of Three merry partment to myself.

night. I've as a band of nigger others were occupied by a minstrels.

changed me ways completely. You say I'm going to the devil, Japanese trade union delegation.

From the window, I saw old Well, can you blame me? The rest were empty.

Ma Kerry leading with One thing about a peoples lodger. Bejabers, I don't think All Rights Reserved. The characters democracy-it is Ane so long as they knew whether it was March and incidents in this story are entirely detitious. No reference is in- you are not one of the people, or Michaelmas, for the daisies tended

svered to spring at every dead..

Farewell

Jasi

There had not been much travellers into groups. They line cosy, no have they apolo- PROPAGANDA speakers to look at for more than a them along write marks on plat- day. Just a jolting parade ferm of flat, frozen farmland and spindly, wind-bent trees.

The engine driver brings his

So somewhere on the Man-

squeaked out for the time as my train stole back towards the Hongkong trontier,| walters is the old Japanese block-houses,

locomotive to a halt exactly churian express today I scarcely bothered to glance at

of comrade opposite the leading mark. Each team

disturbed me at dawn. The straight to the carriage.

A propaganda loudspeaker queue is then. able to step harbouring what the Chinese the blue-clad peasants worki

consider the most horrid food in beside the line It was not tape-recorded voice of a woman Everyone files quietly aboard the world in the hope that some party worker thrilled into the under strict survelliance. There day the man who ordered it unfamilar any more: 1 seemca crowded, stuffy. compartment, is no chance of pushing to the will turn up. Perahps they will to have been seeing all fu

"Increase produiten, strucize front, A shout through the be able to palm it off on the years, then the motherland" "Unite to policemen's megaphone cows next Socialist Party delegation. There, sure enough, was the smash American imperialism."

Between the pep talks came the new martial music all model pcaseworkers have to learn, and

of deafening snatches happy Chinese opera,

On... off...

Kung-

the offender.

r

FA

Eased ahead

green-painted

It was always flattering to get same such considerate treatment, to station below the Hongkong hi be eased in ahead of the queues, line. There was the same care

noodle

to get one of the better berths waiting room, the last

attention from lunch, and cups of pale gren

One night ca.

is the same in the dining and reverent car. Everyone meekly awar's comrade attendants. his turn, Comrade waiters eject I almost got a coach to myself.

Even the most important those who have finished with It was in Mukden. The sleeper visitors (Mr Atulee exceptaj considerable good humour and on the midday Peking. Express must walk the last 100 yards wave the next customer to the had been cancelled to make way into. British territory. It is w vacant seat.

for holiday travellers._

strangely moving moment.

same

SQUABBLE soon started be

twean Red marines and Are young soldiers on their

It is all rather like wartime I had already resigned, myself Down the long covered path« way to Korea. The marinc?, in their Russian-stylc

uniforms, Britain. But Britain as it might to being stranded in Manchuria. way I went beneath the had sleeping berths closest to have been if war had gone on But no. That evening my guide cle propaganda posters ...01 the speaker. They wanted 10 more years. I paralysed the angounced that I should be model workers and clean-cut turned cff. Padded-coated "railway catering service by getting the night train. soldiers further down the train asking for cheese. There was wanted it on. Both kept clicking" plenty

pleasant though Ceremonial the switch one way and another strongly spiced Chinese food.

But for once. I wanted a Welsh Y big Sovict until it broke.

The dies sulkily retired, rarebit. The marines went back to steep --and so did L

My Chinese guide shook me wake, He pointed through the Ice-crusted window.

The tail of a MIG jet fighter was sliding past. It was so close I felt I could touch it. Another followed, another, another, and another. There must have been 60 packed on that airfield

The boast

THE short, stubby planes wer

camouflaged a dull alive

green, and all drawn up behind a hizi electrified fence.

"We've got plenty more" my guide boasted. "China now hai the third largest air force ka the world"

This was pretty doubtful, but I could not help looking im pressed, for far away beyond the MIGA 1 track noticed a line of Soviet-built jet bombers tàc swept-wing Ilyushkins China was only mencured to possess,

Now I had seen them for my

Ball travel provid like that of mags"

hierover temporarily Comwaist desigu

you,

cf

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nosed car through patient quenes

Communist soldzera

young glaring

ACTOS the Forma Stroll

out into the sunshine, beneath the last portrait. ut Mao Tse-tung and on to the. Bailey bridge which martes pu

It took a long time to explaies, which stretched for hundreds afrontier. The Chinese have no proper yards round the station entrance.

New China bade me fareweti word far chasse. They never sat A reception commitee led me with a flourish. A young Com- it. Cheese to them is the most for a few moments ceremonial reunist guard with a well- disgusting of all the foreign tea, into the dusty VIP room cllet temmy-gun saw ine 30121 "barbarians' unsavoury habis. dominated by hideous gilt busta the queue of passing Chinese,

I went through the motions of of Man and Stalin..

With brisk jerk of the gun I had a seat on the train all barrel. he waved his fellow- miting a cow. Comrade waiters brought milk. I tried to explan right. A brand new coach has countrymen back and me across bow this was chuined to make been rushed from the work ahead of them. cheese. They brought butter. shops and coupled on to The

At last light downed all of the express. The varnish I stepped through the last “Crees,” cria the bread waiter. was still wed and ash trays haa barbed-wire

"Cheesu,” I paid relieved. not yet been fixed.

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