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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1055.

CHINA BUTTER SMUGGLERS USE PLANES Gaza: The Frontier

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Herklots, G. A. C. 1953. Hong Kong Birds, Pp. vit233, 11 pls., 8 in colour, numerous black- and-white drawings in text. Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, Ltd., IK$35.00."

44 ...a most welcome handbook for omnitholo- gists resident or station- ed in Hong Kong. All the hitherto recorded species arc included; plumages are clearly and concisely described, and a short account is given ficki characters, voice, habits, status, ele. The Illustrations

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Beligians Increase Holland Border Patrol

Brussels, July 13.

Belgium's "butter-war" is again becoming: active along the country's north-east frontier as police clash almost daily with smugglers in an attempt to stop the illicit traffic.

They have recently used everything from air- craft to horse-drawn "carts, to get cheap Dutch butter across the frontier.

of

the smugglers' tages, Aircraft are

whase inhabitants pro Jatest innovation, which mupposed to be living on the pollee were unexpectedly made output of a couple of cOWS OF aware recently. Inhabitants goals and 'a' mall garden, can of refrigerators and worth of Ghent were woken une show night by the sound, low over- | other expensive household gud- head, b a light tourist plane gets. which circled for several minutes before force-landing in a feld,

Treg Dutchmen stepped out uninjured as a local policeman, warned by the noise run up. Peeving into the plune he dis- covered about 600 kilogramines (1,320 lbs) of butter and several dozen bottles of spirit stowed enrefully away in the fuselage.

The mu were arrested and the plane and its goods im- pounded.

ARMOURED CARS

More often the smugglers use armoured cars to crash through frontier barricades at speeds of over 80 kilometres (50 miles) an hour with hundreds of Bo- grammes of butter ready to be market sold at the Belgian price.

Protected by armour-plating, the smugglers drive through the frontier posts under a hall of fire from police and customs oflleers who pursue them in cars, These

One Belgian "butter king." who began his career single- handed with an old bleycle, ended it with a fleet of cars, Then

he

red- WDS cought handed and sentenced to 14 was also years in prison. He

(about ned 2,000,000 francs £14,000 sterling).

CLOSE SECOND'

Coffee smuggling from Bel- glum to Germany runs the Jel butter trade across, the Belglan-Dutch border A close second.

Dutch spirits and cattle, oflen the frontier, stampeded across ure also profitable items on the smugglers' lists.

Despile Increased vigilance by Belgian police and customs of- cers the smuggling is certain to continue as

long

price differences exist between Bel- gluma and her neighbours.

1

TEDDY BOY”|

ACTIVITIES

London, July 19, Police chiefs have order- ed 11 complete report on the activities of the capital's gangs of “teddy boys," many of whom rove tho streets looking Гет 1rouble.

Benior local officers have been asked to send in de- talled nooounte of the Bituation ali districts of

the metropolis.

An overall report wlli then be drawn up and sent to the Home Office, *

A question about teddy boy incidents ią to be asked in the House of Commons next week. -- China Mail Special

Kampala, July 13. Four girls and two boys, all

pursuits have jed to epic chasese, tho, smugglers do a pronged about 10, were killed when

butter

Mr. Klohard Buriram Boyd Tollinton CHE the HOW British Ambasador i NeDA), seon presenting bin, oradenskis to King Mahandes. Biz Bikran Shah Der of Nopak. in majotle "durbar Hall" og to Narainhill Rossi Palago Kathmands. Nepak Me Taliin. Who WA. formerly British Consul-GenOTA)- Belgian Congo sistioned

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Mickey Spillane's Books Seized

US Cotton

Committee

Meets

Washington, July 13.

Of Frustration

Gaza, July 13. The "rain to nowhere" halted with a jerk and a banging of couplings, throwing up a flurry of sand. “We've come off the rails," said the ticket Inspector. "There will be a delay.

A derailment is no cause for alarm on the 250-mile journey by day across the great Sinat Desert from Cairo to Gaza. When the wind blows hard overnight parts of the single line are often buried in windblown sand by morning.

It is the biblical Wilderness From positions camouflaged in of Shur, this northern corner of the send, a burst of machine gam the Sinal, a wilderness of white are soon develops into heavy sand dunes, scorching man and artillery and mortar fire and blue sky. Hero and there, those intensifed friction between the ever-moving hills have over-belligerents. whelmed a little oasis, leaving only the yellow top fronds of the swaying palm trees towering

above.

It is a peaceful looking land- scape, especially when the shell- ing moves farther down the line.

Inside the narrow coastal strip,

250,000 Arab

INFILTRATION Infiltration by the Arabs and manoeuvres staged by tho Israells near the truce line aro in the opinion of United Nations truce observers the main causes. of border incidents, which are usually more frequent during the tilling and harvesting sea-

sone,

more than fugdes are crowded into a Bor- did tnted life and pallid squalor, one

The border altuation is not

which could be left L- In this ancient capital of the defnitely without grave con- Philletines,

a destitute popula-sequences. The potential dan- tion. lives in hunger rather than ger here is further accentuated by statements by Israel's Pre- mier, Mr Moshe Sharet, Egypt had

fear.

tween

sur-

FIRE EXCHANGED

that the border a few miles Up on

forfeited her right away, artillery and mortar fire to hold Caza. and the |ta exchanged almost daily be rounding area, and the warning Egyptian and Israeli of the Egyptian Prime Minister, soldiers facing each other at Lieutenant-Colonel Gamal Ab- outposts a mile, or so apart. del Nasser, that any attempt by The ceasefire demarcation Iine Israel to seize the Gaza Strip of 1048 is merely a single would mean "total war”. The Agriculture Depart-ploughed furrow frontier of Egypt regards the refugees of

the Gaza strip ment's Cotton Export Ad- frustration.

special In their white United Nations trust and as an opportunity for visory Committee today met jeeps, the only persons who can a magallicent practical mani- with Agriculture Depart drive along

the road

festation of sympathy which cho ment officials.

Jerusalem are the United Na-feels for all the dispossessed Arabs

truce

observers of Palestine. It is a heavy tions military working through the Egyptian- burden to her economy, but she

Wellington, July 13. Policemen and policewomen la several New Zealand towns to day confiscated. ` books magazines featuring crime, sex, to and violence.

to

39 1

Israeli Mixed Armistice Com is determined to defend them to mission to keep incidents down the last. to a minimum.

Even the sunset curfew In force outside Gaza town

cunnot stop the

EIGHT

The meeting was private and Department oficials would make no announcement on what was discussed.

DIVISIONS But it was understood a final

larael with her eight divi- for a cotton 1000Fernandațion

and sions, export policy for the new cotton the camps,

four of which Art motorised, could strike and year beginning on August 1 was nocturnal crossings of the line seize Gaza," but that would and | drafted and woudt be submitted | At night the lights of the Israeli

meas setting the entire Middle the Secretary,

Mr Ezra

kibbutzim er settlements twinkle East ablaze, not to speak of the Benson Mr Benson was out of | from the nearby Hills. A few of

of of difficulty taking over tow and did not attend today's the Arab refugees go back for hostile refugee commitment,

a glimpse of their homes or Both Colonel Nasser and Mr

sometimes Sharett have recently put tog fields, risking and.

Others losing their lives.

goward plans to reduce back to sical or to wreak ven-border tension." It is fairly geaned by murder, turn, is avenged.

With butter in Belgium cost- ing about 70 francs (10 shillings sterling) a kilogramme, which nearly double the Dutch

able trade. And as Belgians recently, reminiscent of the best claim to be the largest

a mud, and wattle African

Books seized included these meeting.. gangster Alms,

caters in the world, with an village school house at Nama-

American of

crino disr average consumption of 12 kama, 30 miles northeast of One such chase had the in-

kilogrammes (26 ibs) a year, the here, collapsed in a heavy rain Mickey Spillane and health and habitants of a small Belgian smugglers are always sure of a storm, local police reported physical magazines, with pictures, border town running for their market.

'last night.-China Mail Special, hof nydes ---China Mall, Special Ilves as an armoured car tore through the streets at night under fire from a police ear which had chased

it for

15 more than kilometres (10 miles).

a tus-

The smuggler, driving with some skill us the police later admitted, suddenly saw ters lorry trying to cut him off in front. He drove straight at the lorry which just had time to get out of the way but he him- self run into a house,

Calmly reversing his armour- ed car the snuggler drove back onto the roud and made off again at full speed in the dark and was dever seen again,

The police, however, are usually more successful in getting the booty, though the smugglers thumselves frequently manage to escape by abandoning their

cars,

TRAPPED

One smuggler, trapped be- tween two police cars at night, put his lorry into first gear, I turned his headlights_full_

on and jumped out of the vehicle. The lorry nearly crashed into one police car whose driver was blinded by its headlights,

The

police, who thought the smug- gler was going to give himself up, did not realise the lorry was driverless unth he had already escaped over the fields,

The smugglers very often Spread the road behind them with noils in an attempt to cut off pursuit.

Police have on more than one ocrasion found a blood-stained and bullet-riddled armoured car abandoned near a road. The driver had usually managed to- get out of the car and hide with the numerous "idends" who hide- care for thom in secret outs along the border.

Butter-smuggling is not only on n large-scale, but is highly organised. Police state that in some small border villages efl- cient "look-out services" give the approach of warning of flying squads which now patrol the frontler day and night.

A much Dutch butter is

Mohr probably smuggled into Bel-

by Cdr. A. M. Hughes, ghum by

and include four attrac-

people crossing the

frontier on foot as is brought

tive plates of the heads in the more sensational way by

of 42 species and many

useful drawings in the text, The writer of this

review would have benefited greatly from

armoured car and plane.

IN FLOWERS

Customs officers searching

this book when station- people crossing the border dis

ed in Hong Kong some

years ago. Even now,

covered 10 kilogrammes (about

22 lbs) of butter hidden in A

on referring to it, somo pot of chrysanthemums which

a widow" was taking to. place

40 unfamiliar species on her husband's grave sCDDES

on which notes were the frontier.

made at the time hayo,

almost all proved, easily Several "pregnant women Iden ligable, D. W. S. have been rested recently (Extract from "Thả ibig" smolal organ: of therillah Ornithologists" Union, British Museum),

3. C. M. POST

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

and obliged to surrenden any; thing up to -18 ́- klilogrammes (nearly 40 lbs) of butter, when stripped.

The traffic in highty, bront- abló as many small border villizing

Humble, col

MANDRAKE THE

FUNNY--ALEENA LET US GO WITH NO FUSS.

WAT

MAYBE SHE CHANGED HEA MIND ABOUT ME AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.

FERDINAND

NANCY

OH, MY POOR COUSIN ---HE'S A PARATROOPER

JOHNNY HAZARD

RACING BETWEEN THE GENGRAL AND HIS TARGET, JOHNNY LEANS OUT TOWARD SNAP-10

MAGICIAN

WHAT A WILD-GOOSE CHASE!

COMING ALLTHIS WAY FOR |NARDA~AND ALL THE [WHILE SHE'S AT HOME,

72-15

WHAT'S SO AWFUL ABOUT BEING A PARATROOPER ?

The Export Advisory Com mitice was established by Mr Benson at the end of May to | advise him on a new cotton ex-

DOCI policy-Beyter.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

MUST BE

ALEENA SAID 60, 10 † LOOK? MISSE | TF 19♬ SHE *KNOW IF SHE LIEO. IWONDSA WHOSE -GAR THAT IS,

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HE'S STATIONED IN

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CHOCOLATES

situation

San Miguel

a-

the

in clear they are far from wish- to provoke a state of affairs likely bring to

ing to

them to war,

The Egyptian Prime Minister proposed

demilitarized strip

along the troubled demarcation. line by withdrawing troops onu kilometre Just over half П side. Further-

milo)

on can

four-point

United

more, he accepted. plan drafted by the Nations Chief Truce On

Major-General Edeson M

of Canada, for Joint Egyptian- torriemens barbed wire en-

Isrucli

to marks the border, the manning of forward areas by regular troops only, and an

between agreement

Egyptian and laruell local commanders to co-operato in maintaining peace.

A PLAN

The Israels, on their side, submitted a plan including the creation along the demarcation fine of n security zone in the form of a mine strip about one hundred metres (about 330 feet) wide to be. Lanked on both sides by barbed wire or other barriers to provent g.” They accepted the propomi

joint

Burns

for

patrols within the accurity zone to superviso fonces on both sidos and make sure that they are kept intact. But they are meetings pressing for regular between local Ifracli and Egyptian commanders to ensure close co-operation in maintain- ing border security by those actually in control of milltary torson · and a direct, telephone link between them.

Colonel Nassor rejected out- right an Israeli proposal. for "high level" talks, at arobassa- dorial level or between the chiefs of staff of the armies of the two countries.

There can bo

political tallo

no.

in the present circum-

stances, and any talks that will be held in the coming weeks will have to be conducted through the Mixed Armistico mission under the chair- of General Burns

In a small wooden hut at Kilo 09 on the Gaza-Jerusalem. Road in do-man's-land Egypt lan and is:nell |

will

officers

thrush bab proposals: which should produce a

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of security on both sides, prevent further tragedies, such as

the

Gaza, attacks and gut the prob

of inaltration into perspective.

proper

The situation in this aron in the subject of consultations be

United twoon, the Brik States and French Governments who in their Tripartite Declara tion of 1989, have gullfantesch status quo on the Arab-Israel borders inalis sad, outside", the United Nations, Continued efforts are also being the three Western, por Arrive at a

Permanen

would ensure

in there

langy

majorly of P are still boma “ depending for Loo