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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1955.

DID IT HAPPEN?

THEN

catching

trains I usually behave like any- one else I reject

all compartments containing ... children or dogs, find the

THE SERIES THAT HAS EVERYONE GUESSING

CONTINUES WITH THE SIXTH STORY:

by Richard Gordon

Rodney's the name

"How Interest-

emptiest, and scatter my ing" she said, with belongings over

89 many

seats as possible to pretend that the occupants have all suddenly run off to buy newspapers.

་

Only once have I de- liberately sought a com- partment with a child in it. I was a keen young doctor, newly qualified, travelling north on a free first-class ticket to be interviewed for. a job at a children's hos- pital

an admiring glance.

This was not

strictly true, as

had по practical expérience of handi- ing children whal- ever, and thought the journey a good opportunity to start,

be

"Then you'll able to keep" Rod.

ney amused all the way to Newcastle, won't you, doctor?" "Of course. That's my job and my pleasure."

a

Tuce

"What thought," she said, smiling again.

train. started Rodney

The and a

I was walking along the plat

with at King's Cross form "Disease In Intancy And Child- hood" under one arm large packet of, sandwiches

was my hand-for lunch included in my travelling penses when I saw a clean and wanted to Chinese Dishes

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"Could you possibly take him "back again?"

I shook my head. If she was an over-indulgent mother, sho deserved her punishment. Besides, I had started on -my sandwiches.

"I'm hungry," yelled child.

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"This is a highly unsuitable diet

infants," 1 for

said resignedly. "But if it keeps you quiet you may come and gorge yourself."

"One bite

Rodney finished more of the sandwiches than I did, because he disposed of each by "taking a with a roaring thirst trying to single bite and rubbing the rest

in climbed on the seat and an- stopper a bottle of beer...

of the cheese and mustard my jacket and Gre You not nounced that he was a pirate

clever with pickle down kill everybody. children," • came admiringly waistcoat. By now I had given Then he sat down, swung his from the opposite seat. "Fancy up all hope of the job. I was legs, and for 10 minutes made a letting him climb all over you wondering if I had something Like that. Anyone who didn't on me 10 anaesthetise the child: noise like an old lorry going up

when I slowly became aware know would think he was hill in bottom gear,

a dampness where he was simply ruining your clothes."

sitting on my knee. When I couldn't stand the dia "Let's look out of the win- I said hastily, pressing any longer I patted him smartly dow."

heid and the

child's nose against the asked, the on "Wouldn't you like to sit on my grimy glass. lap, Rodney?"

Noticing that a pretty young blonde was the only occupant of the carriage, I bent down and asked, beaming like Scrooge on "What's Christmas morning: your name, little boy?"

Ho looked me in the sye. "Rodney," he said. He seemed

self-possessed creature.

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"Rodney, eh? What a nice

Well, we'd better name!

train's going any minute, and you don't want to be left behind by your mummy, do you?"

we?

The

What's steam?

As soon as he accepted the

"What's that" Rodney demanded at once.

"That white stuff."

"What's what?"

"Oh. that's steam."

"What's steam?"

of

madam!" "Really. angrily, jumping up.

can't train than this

your

I

said

"TE you child better

She looked at me in amaze- ment. "My child? Good heavens. do you imagine I'd let any child of mine climb over me in that

Steam? Well, it's a sort of disgusting way? I thought he water."

"What's it for?"

"It makes the engine go." "How does it make the engine

go?**

Not again

invitation I began to wish that I had put off my experiment in child management until the journey home. My salary at the time was so small that I had He shook his head.

until the day before owned only one suit, "Oops-a-daisy!" "T

furry, baggy thing, Throwing my

stained textbook

with split beer and sandwiches on the seat, I helped chemicals and pickled with I tried to remember elemen- the child into the coach, I'm tobacco, which I had worn for tay physics. It enters the sure little Rodney will be a examinations, celebrations after cylinder under pressure- charming travelling companion football matches, falding nurses "What's pressure?" for both of us," I said.

She smiled

said. and

to the pictures, and the similar

⚫ scattered" excitements

י,

"Pressure? Well. pressure's

a _of a sort of term, Feeling medical student's life. that this suit would not, only lose

Job but probably be se me the condemned on sight by the new

He went on like this for some miles.

was yours."

Where's

·RICHÁRD GORDON la, mut his remi mom and be did not mean to be a' writer He quolibed as a doctor in 1943 and for professional reasons

wiad a nom-de-plume; his reci ́ azmı

ts, Gardan Osthere.

As a ship's docter be found Bisa?? with time an his hands on a telp to Australia. Su be wrote a funny book about his experiancas an a medicat student and found himself kigh in the raak of top-selling authars.

Doctor the House has run Sia "120,000 copies, been translated inte many laśquoges, and become a mort successful British Him.

Dr. Ostlere das given ap medicine. and Richard Gordon, now opad 32,, is a full-lane write. He ilver in Oxford. with, his wife false doctor! and their small 108.

Hunt For

Rare Animals

By BILL GLASS

Brussels

EE Talbot, 24-year-old

LE

American ecologist student of plant and ani- mal life in relation to en- vironment Is going hunte ing next month for ani- mals most of the world has never seen and rarely heard of...

Talbot, tall, fair-haired chief of the "aurvival ser- vice" of the International Union for the Protection of Nature, leaves Brussels. on a trek half-way round the world a mercy mission to save the lives of rare animals threatened, with extinction by rapidly ex⭑ panding civilisation.

In his modest office close

A little while ago I saw a by King Baudouin's palace, from photograph of the hospital's new Talbot, who comes wing in the papers. Like an Berkeley, California, plans old love letter, it gave me his five-month trek through feeling of sadness overwhelmed by relief that some other man was chosen in the end.

WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED

Sir Compton Mackenzie's story yesterday was FACT.

the Near, Middle and Far East, over parched desert trails, through uncharted jungle tracks.

VERTICAL HORNS

In Arabia he will look for the oryx, a small pure white antelope type with Now you have to decide: vertical horns. Talbot says Did Richard Gordon make it is the origin of the uni- his story up-or did it really corn myth and is close happen to him? See to-

"Mine! Rodney! your mummy""

"Gone to get a cup of tea."

morrow.

"Thank heavens! She's on

Where aro the train. going?"

you

"Welwyn Garden City." "And we're non-stop to New- castle." murmured the blonde.

Half-fare

"Someone's got to pay," said the guard, as he made out the Rodney made his lorry noise ticket. "One first-class return- She looked up from her hospital authorities and burned again for another 20 minutes, it'll be half-fare, at least. You

then crossed the "I must as insanitary, I had borrowed a

carriage. can get the night train from magazine and smiled. say, it's certainly a treat to hear few pounds and bought a som- I hoped he would at last get the Newcastle, but you'll have to

bre ready-made osität that thick ear he deserved, particu- look after him till then." you say that

would

"But I've satisfed an eamest larly when he pushed her hat

con possibly myself? My name is Gordon, infant was wiping his feet on and tore the brooch from her arrive there with a small child." I'm a doctor, and I happen to the trousers, blowing its nose Blouse. But somehow she kept "Sorry, sir. We're the London specialise iT paediatrics on the lapels, and twisting the her temper. She merely looked North-Eastern Railway, not a

top waistcoat button like a man at me pleadingly and asked: kindergarten." children, you know."

""Not at all, May 1 introduce your or And now this over her eyes, pulled her babe intron got an important

HE'S THE TOUGHEST ADVENTURER AMONG THE TOUGH RUSSIAN REDS

T

in

By John Atkinson

HE most powerful man tough Krushchev could not read

Russia, stubby, tl be was 25. -gold-toothed Nikita He elbowed his way into the Krushchev, has made two world picture as Mayor of new moves in his drive to Moscow when the city's under high-gear the Soviet's pro- ground railway was being built. Nikita took all the credit for duction of food and that job, and went back to the machinery.

Ukraine on promotion as secre- the Communist Party tary of

An arcarsin tried to kill. hám

He has ordered thousands there. of experienced workers in the

Communist Party, "with a bomb, but slipped-and it government and scientific was the assassin who died. institutions to hurry off to Then Russian troops moved backward farms and tone into Poland (lining up against up their output.

Hitler's invaders in 1989) and Krushchev was ordered by the Kremlin to Communise the. Soviet-held half of the country.

He ordered the Polish farm workers to seize big estates and divide the land between them. into factory What sort of a man is be, this He put workmen Krushchev," who tes rushed his directors' jobs, and as the rich way to power in the world's mest became poor he threatened: "It hazardous political scramble with, anyone tries to stop us we will

knock him out." ail the finesse of a bulldozer?

And, secondly, Krushchev has set up a Ministry of General Machine-building to concentrate on stocking new factories with plant.

*

Eyes of that baby-blue colour which melts a mother's heart disguise the stony brutality of the man. He is stubby, efficient

Nikita Krushchev

He

..Krushchev worked fast. seized control of food production, lashed the Ministry for mistakes and pitched.civil servants from COBY

office jobs to plough up virgin land, twice the area of England, in Siberia and Kaza- khstan

Whenever possible he boasted

wes

at Party ralkies that he acting end speaking for the Soviet, Malenkov sat poker- faced and silent.

"Within two years of Malenkov's appointment as Premier, Kr chey had him out and replaced by Marshal Nikola Buizanin, a dandifled political soldier noted for his love of wine and other mellow things

and

for his willingness to obey a strong bass. This was a highlight in Krush- chev's soaring career. He scored it with the reddish Eghts" of The miner's son was on his Russia's parliament house gicam- way to power, and soon his star ing on his balding pate..

se higher. Stalin made him a secretary in the Party director-There sat Malenkov, his flabby ship-the central committee and face impassive, as the chairman, Krushchev used this new job to Alexander Volkov, read out his attack all ranks and, thereby, the confession of "guilt and mis- govemment, He said: "There is takes" and his "request" to be widespread political frivolity,

allowed to resign. oufing and revelation of State

and bounding with aggressive Stalin made him a lieutenant vitality In the kiss-of-death general (politieni) when the secrets. Appointments are made on the basis of friendship, manner he slaps on the back all Germans attacked Russia. Three those whom he is plotting to years later, when the Ukraine personal devotion and blood re- lationship. This cheating must destroy,

stop,"

was liberated by Soviet troops, Krushchev, in red-tabbed uni- form, was made its President.

It was as though an official at The vodka of victory ws Tory Party headquarters got up heady stuff and the Ukradulans, and accused the British Cabinet who fought stoutly against the of graft and corruption.. Germans, grew restive

udie

Then Krushchev : rose. "Comrade Deputies," he said, "on instructions from the Central Committee of the Party...I sub mif the proposal to appoint A few days after he pitched

Comrade Nikolai Alexandrovich Malenkov from the Premiership Russia and wanted independence. Yes, Krushchev prides himself Bulganin. We all know Nikolal two months ago they went to This "resurgence of nation on pinch and drive and straight Alexandrovich,.." gether to a play-Wings," By

Usm," as Krushehey called it talking. When Moscow's building Alexander Korneichruk-and up-

was slowed

Krushchev stepped back, The by was put down harshly. He programme plauded

attacking Wa scenes

purged half the Ulamine's "serious mistake" after the war, 1,300 members of the parliament Lavrenti Berta, secret police. chiet gent to the firing squad by Communist Party officials. Gaols he took over and called the that never says "no raised filled and firing squads emptied bosses and foremen together assenting hands, to his proposal. Malenkov a year previously?

In a few days he had bustled the night-shift floodlights. under

t new team of deputy premiers Such are the jovial blandish-

Krushchoo

All "better into prasitica, ments; of Krushchev. But his In all this Krushchey was ably

demanded

equipped for carrying out heart is as cold as the iron ore helped by Colonel Ivan Sav, a discipline. He got it.

Krushchev's orders to buck up. his father mined near Kursk, on purge specialist. Serov is now the fringe of the Ukraine, the Russia's Minister of State.

Ho un

was seventh on the Krem farm output and heavy industry lin power list when Stel de actos machinery, guns and rich republic which Security rolling forms the

the Soviet's western

flank. Nikita followed his father into For his brash work in taming took over. Then Malenkov made tanks.

the

83-year-old Nikita Yes, the mines, then worked, as

proud Ukraine, Stalin his fatal mistake. He appointed shepherd and later went into a called faithful Krushchev back Krushchev First Secretary of the Krushchev, father of two Bons mil," "And in Lenin's bondwagon to Moscow at rewarded him Party gave him the power that and several daughters, is making on the tough. of revolution against the Czar, with membership of the Party's kept Stalin in the driver's seat all the cunning it did not matter that rough policy-making Politburo

A March 1953 and Malenkov

for 20 years.

Kremlin course,›

were men

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN? No. 6: Rodney's the Name.

YES

?

NO

The seventh tale in the series will appear TOMORROW

when the problem is posed-by:

ERIC WILLIAMS

Among those who fol- low him are:

• ROBERT HENRIQUES D-Day planner, Commando, novelist and poet.

•BERNARD NEWMAN -world traveller, ay- thority on espionage. ⚫ JERRARD TICKELL biographer of Odette Churchill.

• MICHAEL PERTWEE -playwright, author of TV's top-ranking serial, The Grove Family.

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extinction.

to

the In Syria, Iraq and Lebanon he will search for the Syrian wild donkey,❤

three thousand known years before the birth of Christ. It is a cross be- tween a horse, and a zebra and is only three feet high, and is said to be the forerunner of the modern horse..

There are believed to be none living, but Talbot hopes to find. some in the "Fertile Crescent Region," a vast uncharted area in northern Syria and Iraq,

Says Talbot: "I will probably fnd traces of other rare animals up there too animals probably

science."

unknown to mow as

WILD

In Pakistan he will seek the.. Asiatic lon and the wild ass. Then India, to search again for the Asiatic lion and for traces of the great Indian rhinoceros.

*It 13 the second largest existing rhino," says Talbot,

"It

is really prehistoric. It's

walking tank. Stands six feet high at the shoulder. Fourteen feet long. It's got folds of skin ilke armour-plating.”

In Burma, Malaya and Indo- nesia, Talbot will track the near extinct Javan one-horned rhino- ceros.

For the slow extinction of come

of the world's animals Talbot blames mankind. For centuries the Asiatic lion was hunted and slaughtered for sport by Oriental princes...

The great Indian rhinoceros and the little Javan one-horned rhino have been hunted for hundreds of years by natives who believe their horn, the skin ofer parts of the animal tave nagle properties. Talbot them other-

bopes to persuade

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