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'DAMMIT", SIR, NOW DARE YOU ATTEMPT TO TURN

THE PAGE" WITHOUT TAING A MOTER HIS THIS A DEMOCRACY OR ISNT

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1955.

SCARCITY OF NEWSPAPERS

Hunt For

World Couuright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

Churchill,

Dead Or Alive

AN 1899 EPISODE TOLD BY L.D. DE HAAS

N October 1899 I was was also, of course, the in-

at the front in Natal evitable kaffir boy.

38 a member of

volunteer cavalry commando,

The days passed peaceably. called the "Hollander Corps". I had requisitioned a small convent-school We were out to defend the abandoned

cause of the South-African for an office, It containe republics, the cause which an excellent piano on which the people of the Nether- my Hungarian performed lands had come to regard as whenever the spirit moved St. that of liberty and justice. him.

How much of the zeal. of --

had

On the naming of December

Modelschool. the British officers' escaped from the Staats prison. HQ somehow seemed to. consider me responsible.

the young fellows who com- 13 our beatitude was rudely "posed the commando was broken Inin by a telephone call due to righteous indignation from headquarters. Winston and how much to a youth- Churchill, a prisoner of war, ful thirst for adventure is at this distance of time diffi- .cult to assess. Anyhow, the weather was radiantly beautiful; our horses seemeri to enjoy the trip as much as ourselves, we had plenty. to eat and good, strong Boer tobacco to smoke-which for most of us was a new and awesome experience and not a care in the world.

I might have become a seasoned warrior if a tele-

this

I wanted to know what" the excitement Wax about. What was there special about Churchill chap? HQ rebuked me for my ignorance, Winston Churchill was, seemed, a thoroughly dangerous individual who had, although a war cor- respondent and therefore a non- combatant, actively taken part sabot-

Eged in

son

in

"of

gran from Pretoria had not in the fighting. He had sa recalled me for, police Natal... he was a "Jingo,* he duties. The Capital's police was

of the Duke force

(sic) needed secretaries Marlborough"

how the with a good knowledge of voice on the telephone here be came hysterical and told me in languages, for the popuia heaven's name to get on with it tions of towns in the and to have this Churchill re- Transvaal were very cosmo captured immediately. politan. And so it came An idea crosses my mind. I- about that I became a police had read of a price being put on officer. Thad two assistants, the heads of desperadoes. Why a bright Boer lad, even not do the same here? But how much? The Hungarian thought

younger than myself, and a that £100 was sure to bring Hungarian musician. There him in before evening.

£25.

The

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Board of Trade, -Wilgili Sachens,

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with featuring thankfulian to say stasie that lovey Sunth Aprian

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think with will now

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Hovers & faithfully Priestnil. Chunwill

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Sefton Delmer In Bandung

What A Beautiful Set-up For The Kremlin Boys!

T

Bandung. But look underneath and HEY are holding a you find the smart now jámboree in the motor-cars belong to a small sun-drenched Indo clique of political racketeera nesian hill town of and their henchmen.

Bandung next week.

Workers are getting, per-

It is a political jamboree, haps, 20 times as much an anti-Colonial gathering money as before the Japan-

of Asian and nations.

African ese occupation. But their wages today are worth only a. quarter as much rice as they could buy before.

Sold out

What a pity President Soekarno and the Indonesim Government are being so very exclusive and colour conscious about it! .....

I AM informed that one of the biggest foreign rub- They have blackballe ber companies is trying to Israel, that undeniably Asian sell its holdings in Indonesis newcomer to nation sover- and get out. Why? Because eignty. And as for non- it has found that over the Africans and non-Asians-- last four years an average why, they are not even of 30 percent of its produc- permitting Us to send tion has been stolen by its delegates as observers, no workers. There is no redress. matter how great the in Police just laugh at anyone dividual contribution of who complains. those observer delegates might have been to the. Marry of the liquidation of Western "em- foreign rubber planters have pires,

sold out to Chinese at deri- sory prices and left the country.

The fathers WHAT a magnificent oppor

gmaller

The Chinese just exploit the trees for all that they will give in quick, inmediate rettant; them sell the trees themselves

tunity a congress like this would provide for our British Socialist leaders to for pulp and turn over a once- visit this Indonesian repuh valuable rubber plantation to lic, of which for all practical rice or whatever it will grow. purposes they are the found- Round Bandung parter ni squatters sponsored and Ted ing fathers.

by the Communist Peasant have taken over thou- The leader of the delega. Party

sands of aéres from European- tion should of course be Lord Mountbatten For he is Indonesia's founding father,

owned tea and coffee estates.

They do not cultivate tea bushes. Too much work in that.

and

If he, as Allied Supremo They have cut them down in Southeast Asia, had not and just grow food for them authorised de facto recogni- selves

their families. the reasons why tea is tion to Japanese puppets one Soekarno and Hatta, well I scarce on the world market and

is costing you there. think it is safe to bet Soekarno would not be president today. Nor would Hatta be his vice-president.

In fact, the whole of this vital area would bear a very different aspect...

So it is really sad that the Socialists and Mountbatten

OVER

Double terror

VER more than a third of the area which used to be the Dutch East Indies and which is called Indonesia today the Soekarno Government has no -real control, The unfortunate Public has to pay double tribule sad submit to double terrár, by.

day from the official

tax cannot fly out here for & gatherer and police, by night week or so and give the from terrorist bands, once-over, to the product of There is fighting going, on their policy, particularly at right now between the Javanese a time when the Indonesian troops of the Central Govern Government is spending ment and armed gangs of the local popilation in three areas. millions to fix up the place

is to look as

The Indonesian attractive

Army, hopelessly divided into a pro-i possible.

Government and pro-Commitinist section mainly stationed in East Java, and an anti-Communist. and anti-Government section.

Looking back

25

I AM inclined to think Lord based on Bandung.

Mountbatten would not be too pleased by what he would find.

In many parts of the Indo- nestan archipelago conditions are returning to the precolonial

and situation of the sixteenth

tocal

Like Sutan Sjarir, one of seventeenth centuries. Then, the top Nationalist leaders foreign merchants mode of the anti-Dutch revolt and feudal lord to carry on their

arrangement with the the first Prime Minister of business. the young republic, who is the leader of Indonesia's today, except that now th Socialist Party.

The same thing is happening

Cover all this sad chaos with a tangled network of Govern- ment orders and regulations

Afrikaner concurred. Having to capacious caken bin in the half. provide the cash out of my own. The key, it appeared, had been pocket in case of capture, I lost. We replied that it was our decided that £25 was ample. duty to force the lock is So I took pen and ink and then Graco acquiesced. We prised and there wrote the proclama open with a poker. It contained tlow" printed on the left. When every article one could possibly street and in the field and you have a portrait of a it was dry I pinned it up out- side.

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think of except Winston Churchill

This is the document of which On December 21 it was all had enlarged reproduction is over. Winston Churchill

arrived at Lourenco Marques. placed on a table in the room. at Blenheim Castle in which Sir A few days later he was re- Weston Churchill was beat and ceived with bands and fast as where it may be seen by the he landed in Durban Combel thousands of tourists that visit in later years,

the castle. "

Comodo ne

twenty five pounds sig) reward offered

the Bob-

Committee of Ward V to the special Constable of this Ward

who brings the everbed prisoner of WAS

10 Churchi

az zfive to this office

by order of the touch

Sub-Committee of Wand V

A description of the fugitive was added to the proclamation

Englishzman: 25 years old,

height, abt. : 1.70." m/average bulid, silent stoop, pado con- Plexion, reddisir brown hair,

feudal lords are. the local police chiefs, "local trade union basser. "I am ashamed to say," he and, alas, all too often the local told me two years ago, terrorist boss as well.

that the vast majority of the population the ordin- any man and woman in the look back with longing to the peace, prosperity, good order they enjoye under the Dutch."

and

country which, if I am not very much mistaken, is well on the road to becoming the southern-

most outpost of Commusim.

Action cells

When I asked him this time if he still took this mut Communists zve been view, he said: “Yes, except tanding batches of young am Reuter representative,ing or hoping for anything academy in Prague

as a reporter that they have stopped long- Indonesian militants month by month to an "anti-imperialist often met Lord Milner and Lond now. They just accept the Selborne. They were both highly amused at, my Churchill story morass we're in as perman- and I remember that. Lord Millent and try to make the ner, who had a very precise best of it."""

£25

of mind, particularly, an

mere

they are trained - în itatióri," subversion Inditra, Lion, and organisation. More than 5,000 graduates of the academy have already returned.

wanted to know by what com- Mind you, on the surface and are hard at work As puration I arrived at the sum of the place appears happy and have seen for myself travelling prosperous enough. Look at through the countryside and established Happening to be a London in the laughing cafe-au-lait here they have

action cells in even the smallest almost imperceptible moust the summer of 1908 I read coloured maidens washing villages, each with a algstaff ache, talks through his nose, something in the papers about their linen in muddy including at least are full-time

d the forthcoupling mirrings of the and with a Esp

Prezident of the Board of Trade, Djakarta canale soaking, paid worker

At the same time we started: search. I called personally on

the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill soaping, and splashing each They have organised an army the Bishop of Pretoria accom I sent him a little. note with other look at the long at 80,000 veterans of the anti- panied by my two seistants, my best wishes for his future trafic blocks of motor cars Dutch Insurrection and they are

news-Hireply was truly and bicycles in the street Hillán, 1 gelat 11 above

We whe Bishop received, us

The most charmingly. He looked at the

revolvers in our belts huge and said with a twinkle in his eye that he hoped there would be no neceselfy to use them

Zacumiller"

than half a century

in the Uhrt of sul

alongside the canals, and You would think it was boom city.

As it should be with Java's staple products »

ibber, fetching the

soekarno gives them his bless

#recruiting a more,

Yes, it's a pity our Social- lafs are not going to be here to see how their friends are getting

haps there will be another

THIS is

GORDONS

DRY GIN