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NOTES ON VOTES

By J. W. TAYLOR

TOME· remarkable

in-

Sormation about the probable course of the forth- coming General Election has just become available.. It is

disclosed that

now

during the last Election, the people living in Bristol Northeast constituency were "guinea pigs" for a survey designed to find out. they why people voted as did and what makes the elector "tick."

This survey was under- taken by Bristol University and the Colston Research Society, whose findings have just been published in A book called **Straight Fight," by R. S. Milne and H. G. Mackenzie, lecturers in government and statis- tics respectively in the University's Department of Economics. It is said to be proving somewhat of an eye-opener for the Election planners and agents of all parties.

Bristol Northeast is a reason* provincial ably representative

the

borough constituency, and lessons it provided through the survey can, it is claimed, apply to almost any other place. It clearly shows how

and

why

voting is influenced and where time and money is being wasted in campaigns without any com- pensating result.

Important

One important Indication was that the whole pattern of a General Election has changed.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1955.

FLES

»"And only last night Dad was saying whatever the Budget result things couldn't get much worse."

London Express Service

ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES

THE MAN WHO LOVED

T

MATA HARI

WO Catholic nuns in Cell No. 12- at. Paris's bleak Saint Lazare Prison tried to appear as though there.. as Mar- they were not guerite Zelle-McLeod talked to the over-.. wrought young French Army officer. He was obviously infatuated with her, and the nuns were just as obviously embar-

It would appear that the only rassed. which attract bib meetings audiences are those which are addressed by nationally known politicians.

In a neighbouring county division, 6,000 Bristo! attended at single out people door, meeting addressed by Mr. Attlee-more than went to all the meetings of both parties held in Bristol Northeast,

The authors

the days

of

cer.clude

big

Reckler meetings

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Finally the man, 22-year-old Pierre de woman goodbye; Morrissac, kissed the and as he left the prison it seemed his life was at an end. In fact it was spin out another 19 years to end like the last act of a Wagner opera with the libretto by Ernest Hemingway.

that The date was early Octo- guerite, McLeod was a hard rosettes, ber, 1917, and after the mau

even in

2

land

was

window

who

nuns.

de..

drinker, measured by the imperial pint rather than the pro- verbial nip; and his drinking

posters and parude chanting left the cell, Marguerite where hard drink Zelle-McLeod talked whom to vote for are over, and

with that it is the voler sittingSister Marie,

one of the quictly at home reading his

She was depressed. listening-in paper сг emphatically

young chooses the man Apart from to represent him in the House. Morrissac's visit, and his re- peated proposals of marri- age, M. Clunet, her lawyer, was walking around like. a' man with death in his soul.

With convincing data, com- plicated details and charts, the

authors submit that The old- style Election is, a thing of the past; that a General Election "nationalised" nowadays is polling instead of having 4 purely local siant..

They say that people are much more inclined to read their newspapers in their own time and to listen to party political

HE was a good lawyer, and

there was the added ad- vantage that he believed she was innocent. Neverthe-

excesses were measured in the bruises on his wife's body..

Two children were bot

boy and a girl. When the boy died the hot-blooded Marguerite, certain a servant had poisoned him, shot, the supposed murderer and fled to Europe,

with his tiny

McLeod promptly followed daughter and started to search for her,

He finally found she was in

·

broadcasts, and then make up less, he was not having Paris, installed in the luxurious in success in getting her a fat of a German colonel," who, the local schoolroom, and reprieve. The

their minds, irrespective of all the meetings that are held

Premier like

other German colonels;

wore the civilian clothes of one of the Kaiser's spies.

despite the voluminous printed was being most utreason- living in Paris in those days," propagande dropped. in their able. letter-boxes. Future elections may be fought without all this.. "Straight Fight" is a knock out in some ways for the planners and political agents, For instance, the report

says that the influence of meetings is negligible. Ten percent of

the

electors attended them. Nearly all were already armiy going

decided how they were to vote. They went either to support their party, to heckle, or merely for somewhere to go.

Images

Out of 375 people questioned, 342 had not attended a single meeting. Of the rest only two

The woman in Cell No. 12 was the half-Javanese, half Dutch dancer whose name was to give the world a new word for a female spy- Mata Hari. And at 5 am. the next day, October 15, she was due to the shot.

Now Sister Marie tried patiently to ease the woman's last hours. "Why Gon't you dance?" she sug- gested. "It has always been your life-it will help you to forget.

So Mata Hari danced and

of what, may be caled "floating only the two runs watched

went to one meeting her voluptuous writhings.

voters

REM

many

"party

Marguerite faced the anger of her violent husband, but man aged to hustle him out of the flat and out of her life. The Eurasian daughter returned to the East Indies, to be shot as a spy in the Korean War

than 40 years later.

more

By DUDLEY POPE

Still she danced; still she had her adoring suitors. Rarely did she return their love. And still she travelled. She went, for in stance, to Madrid.

She lived fabulously, spin- ping a web of espionage 'that "enmeshed many men.

to a muddy field at Vincennes,

where stood a file of infantry- men with rifles.

"It is all farce to prove ou" whispered Clunet rifles are not loaded."

The

not

Mata Hari. may or may have believed this attempt to ease her last moments; but she

as waved aside the proffered blind- From that de bolts rattled

fold and stood quite still as 12 home and nest of spies and counter-spies 12 steel barrels were levelled at

2

message was sent to British Intelligence in London.

her heart, and 12 bullets-ended to end all spy

It merely

said that Mi-. the spy story

stories, guente Zelle-McLeod was travel.

*

ling to Germany, via Holland.

The ship called at Plymouth,

and Mme Zelle-McLeod was rew DUT if Mata Hari's story was quested to step ashore for a talk Bended life went on for its with some British officers.

One of them wrote later that

minor

characters bringing

of all the women he examined sweating moments of shame for

the same, and bitter-sweet memories- the way she was quickest on the uptake. She for others. Among the latter en was Fierre de Morrissac, last of

her lovers to see her alive...

was only too willing to she said. The questioning started and Mata Har

with affecting innocence, said she would let them into a secret; she was a spy, yes but for France!

BUT the glamorous,

spider was herself being lured into a web: and Major Pierre Ledoux of the French Intelli- gence, was spinning it. The British sent Mata Hari back to to Spain and relayed her story on

Paris. Shortly after her return to France she was neatly trapped by Ledoux.

UTTE when Marguerite Zelle-

McLeod became H.21 vice's payroll is not known, but the German Intelligence Ser. it probably dated from the first days of her agaire with the

colonel

look

Morrissac completely vanish- ed for years until, in 1822, he was discovered-a monk in the Carthusian monastery of

Aula Dei, near Penaflor, in the Span- ish province of Saragossa.

He had become a member of this strict Order to expatiate his sing and, leading a life of prayer and fasting, was supposed never to look backs on his past,

All was peace in the Spanish but outside there monastery was tirest which smouldered and then flamed into civil war.

Soon the fighting was near. At the trial in Paris the pro- Franco was being forced to re- secutor Andre Mornet (who treat at Penator and the Gov- Dearly

30 years later was to emment troops wanted the

the men of Vichy), strongly-built monastery. prosecute fought verbal duels, with Clunet, Prior refused to evacuate his defending counsel. And moaks until a gun started to

shell the building.

of

her

R-

which

What did this” woman. like? The Evening News July 26, 1917 reporting her voters"

of them only and 'one

trial, said the was "Very tall," there to be a steward.

with jet black hair, dark eyes The survey found

that

and an elegant Agure; she was had fixed

a striking-looking woman, images, such as associating a MATA HARI'S story is a

though she could not be de party with free enterprise

strange one even when scribed as beautiful the working man's party

But she was intelligent (she and so on. These images are shorn of the fiction which spoke four languages), vivacious deeply rooted and undoubtedly has grown round it: and I and had a zest for life influence voles. Family tradition

must retell it before pass gave her undeniable fascina- and upbringing "I come from aing on to Pierre de Morrissa.c

To Paris she brought a new Conservative family" dictated une of her many lovers. Ji-

and voluptops, form of Orient. Marguerite Zelle was the al dancing in which she was un daughter of a Dutch planter immediate success on the stage. aid a Javanese woman born followed: under the name Mata Tours of other European capitals in the East Indies, and her Hari (meaning "Eye of the mother managed to get into Day") she danced in Berlin and a Buddhist monastery as a Madrid; and in her own couns try, Holland, she was an even sacred dancer.

greater success.

many votes.

that

Moreover, the authors show Moreover,

preaching to

the con- verted is no way to win votes, adding that electors form their opinions after listening-in reading newspapers.

OF

One conclusion reached is the "Vocal elector-the

man who

talks about his politics to

a

can be of tremendous influence Were a candidate to claim that

tlom.

ch

1

The

then the letters were

Love letters many of and written by men in places Some signca fully, some

Initials, some with pet TIRANCO'S men offered the with

monks safe conduct and they names, suine with a name which began with 34 and ended with Ybut with the middle letters de Morrissac.

all left except one man, Pierro He had sought missing.

peace in sacred retirement aříd Were they from Malvy, the now that

being peace was Minister of the Interior? He

shattered. tried for treason and ten years. banished-although later another Minister ad mitted that it was he who wrote them, not Malvy,

And so the game was up.

was

་

N Cell No. 12 dawn was

Last

He found a machine-gun left by the insurgents, trained it on Government advancing the troops; and waited for them to get within range. Then he started firing. The enemy, be

Franco's men held the monasters

in force, corinter attackert heavily.

lieving

friend on a bus or at work... The girl was 15 when By shrewdly exchanging one approaching and, after writ

When they captured it they Lieut McLeod a Dutch naval lover for another she was cooning to her little daughter Banda fond just que man-and ka a officer of Scottish extraction the

confidante of in Batavier, the nuns helped her monks. No one knew what drove boudoir his opponent's policy WYLA

several of Europe's leading to dress. "sheer poppycock," he would be came to the island. He saw statesmen und Industrialists

She slid into an elegant gown him to fight, but it released him Buspect

because it was party this sinuous and fascinating man who talked freely with the and a fur-trimmed coal conned on whatever, he was trade co politics. But it Howd George girl dancing and fell in love intoxication

of passion rather a "cartwheel black and white pe ta the years of silence said the same thing at

than malice of treason the with her.

surdner hat and long white the monastery, #local, it would be considered Just plain commonsense.

So, in the years before the gloves. The mains were in tears. The soldiers put him up Unlike Madam Butterfly's

Great War and for two and a "Don't cry, Sufer Marie," she against a wall, and by the time The authors say "The most Lieutenant Pinkerton, this half years after it broke out sild, and, turning to the wait the sound of the last shot had promising extension of local

man stayed and married the the relieved many men of the ing officers the announced: echoed and re-echoed through party activity might be the

burden of their secrets; secrets "Mesdems at ready the colors of the monastery training of vocal electors to girl and took her to India which could, and probably did With Me Came (also in tears) which had been his home 100 fudiuence people around them??? A good deal older than Mary cost lives at the

the-war fronta, and inter Marie she was taken hullers hit Pierre de Morrisis,

Pare

CROSSWORDS IN CHINESE

Mshrugged

By Tony Motta

ANY a Chinese has were applied to this form at The general's, neglect of his at the poetry for exactly that reason. wife was such that she wrote This form of "ambiguous" over siro hundred `at' these idiosyncrasies of verse was driginated by the poems.)\\\\ foreigners, and the "kwai wife of a general in the Chin

lo's"

perennial crossword Dynasty. The story goes that Although the origins of the puzzle has not altogether she was unhappy about her Chinese crossword may be dis- husband's › wayward affections puted. I'm sure you will agree escaped his censure.

towards his concubine, and she that the phrase "What's that Fairy and tram commuters whiled her time away by writ. want" will always hold - its would look up from thel

ing verse (on alik) which could magic for the rimble of wit vernacular dailies to sale in we read from all four points of and that, for the Chinese, it has

2. the compass

dulgently at the sight of

affairs

European laboriously Alling in tale black and white squares

This was the state of till A few months ago when a Chinese evening paper

caught its' napping readers HERWATES with a four-inch square of black and white patchwork.

The "romance of words" and the thrill derived from juggling letters had caught op-and now It is a common sight to see the hieroglyphics of the Chinese!

language being penned, on to almost all the native language newspapers,

snag about the Chinese puzzle is that its structure and the language does not allow for the simple phrase or word clue and a synonymous ond word solution.

MADE EASIER

This being the case the puzzle

answers require either a string

三

come to stay.

A translation of the typieni. Chinese crossword clues shown

of words or a phrase and since above. The smaller square, giv es the previous day's solution.

most of the

clues ask for

historical, or geptwal knowledge

solutions the average reader

ACROSS:

I.

Name of a certain "black society" in Honkgong whore without a scholar's background tender was sentenced to death for the murder of a police con finds himself stumped.

stable,

The average render's, lot in connection with the solving of made these puzzles has been Caster by some papers in that

2. Phrase for being especially fond of a person.

3. Part of a phrase for attempt to 'seize, power. 4. Mahjong pieces.

5. Name of a jewel. Through this gem some people · havez they have segregated the tople's made a name for themselves in Chinese history while others have

SQ

Instead of baffling the

#

would-be puzzle solver with a lost their legs,

6. Name of the country the Chinese Reds call "Paper Tiger" host of jumbled clues requiring and the Nationalists call "Turn Around Tiger??)

a wide knowledge of the arts 7. American flim name originally entitled "Ping Giri" "star».

and other subjects; the puzzle

is based only on one tople, such ring Shelley Winters and Barry Sullivan.

as current affairs, politics or

history.

$

To accuse the

Chinese of

plagiarism in

the adapting

puzzle' would.

wwword grossly unjusti

DOWN:

8. Phrase used in the game of Mahjong,

9, Internal conflicts of political parties,

be China's internet warz --- some people think.

The idea of the crossword and other word games came from a Chinese form of poetry called is

Wul Man" Verse written in this style is of a a set form and

The causes of

...

10. A Chinese classical phrase — to go with a given phrase, 11. Term for people who thirst for name and money, 12. A proverb or phrase describing a place of beauty which believed to nurture handsome men,

13. Phrase meaning the exchange of East-West culture. 14. Decoration for wells which was originated by a poetical

consists of eight lines. The character,

words "Wui Man" interpreted 15. Name of a female, famous, in Cantonese, dramat - She literally mean ambiguous and threw herself into the water.

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