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THE CHINA SMAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1955.
DID IT HAPPEN? Another story to keep you guessing. The answer will be given tomorrow.......
THE TULIP
TULIP BULB
HIS
happened bo- Bureau of the General Staff, business to detect anything sus- tween the two great in other words by the Ser- vicious
Wars,
by
Andre Maurois
and to inform filgher authorities. You will have n I was then a vice des Renseignements, right, If you are in doubt about Reserve Officer in the French counterpart of the someone, to order that Inquiries French army and belonged to British Intelligence Service. be made by the Surete Generade un infantry regiment.
One I said I felt quite incompe- Also a laboratory will be at your or by any branch of the service, morning I found in my 'mall tent. The answer was they disposal with chemists specia- a letter from the French wanted men of imagination led in invisible inks, War Office asking if I should and it seamed advisable to But that course, air, will lost be willing to attend a special recruit a certain number of only 15. days. Would not real and of stamps. Moreover, look period of instruction during writers. I was tempted. In- plot take more time to develop?
Not necessarily, the Colonel at the postmark.
come from Villeneuve St. the month of December. It telligence Services, have said. Moreover, we shall send co would take place in Paris, at piquant flavour of mystery. you a new batch of mail every Georges, which in an important the Ecole Militaire. Attend- Also they had mentioned a two hours so that one day will rallway junction
not compulsory few names and I knew some count as four. but the course, they said, of my friends would at- would certainly interest me. tend.
ance was
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Thus the following morning I found myself serted at a large table in an office at the Ecole with hundreds of 1 called at the War Office The colonel In charge of the Militaire
Cadleu, lottery in front of me. Several was Colonel to ask for additional in- course
He other officers were part of our of the Deuxieme Bureau. formation. The course was
VIK quiet man, very much in service; our chief was a Major organised by the Deuxiemo the tradition of the sicepy de-. Dupre, by trade an engineer and
teelive who is really, behind his highly intelligent, glasses, all alive, and a keen I began to read all that stuff. observer. He told us that we It was amusing, much more so Lotters would function as a wartime than a batch of real service.
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Everything seemed in order-the laboratoryskud found the
plate normal
be many branches where ac- had written some excellent
the
Why shouldn't he? sald Major Dupra
Because it's a waste of time
The letters
Is #t not possible that the figures given Indicate the number of train which came through during the day, the name of the fish indi- cating the nature of the trains (goods, troops, cattle)?
reader I say, you are a detective novelsi Yet you are right; it is at least possible: let
of
us nsk for an Inquiry. What do you want to know?
A reply
The number of trains that went through the station at Villeneuve un Monday and Tuesday.
The following morning head- reply. The quarters sent a numbers of the trains tallied exactly with those of the fisherman's catches, We sent In at once the nanie of the addressee.
Have this man arrested at once.
Very soon after we were con- gratulated by Colonel Cadieu. Our vigilance and initiative," he told us, would have led lo the arrest not only of one spy but of many members of a vast organisation.
You see, the Colonel said, that censorship is not a vain game. It deprives the enemy of his simplest means of communication. Now don't relax. There are still very dangerous men at large, and if you do not discover them you'll pay heavily for it.
My discovery had consider ably improved my position in the staff. I
I needed it. Most of
had these officers
alreatly belonged for a long time to the Service des Renseignements. I was a newcomer and am amateur. But after the "arrest" of the fisherman Major Dupro took me as his assistant. I felt
nively pleased. One always prides himself at doing well a job which is not normally his tivities would be co-ordinated epistolary stories. Around job. My luck was not destined me if I large fable Wo exchanged to last. by him. He asked might be interested In the impressions and eagerly awaited censorship of letters.
Are there any lattery censor?
the next mail. Colonel Cadieu, who paid us a visit, found us to too much
and not amused enough on the alert for possible spies.
Of course, he said, for four months many of your friends Be careful, he said, or some (and. he mentioned three thing terrible will happen to novelists and two well-known you. Do not forgot you are res- dramatists,) have been concoct-ponsible for the safety of an ing all sorts of intrigues carried army.
Most of on by correspondence. the letters are harmless and
As a matter of fact I was roter only to the private Yves or looking all the time for signs of
of the writers. a secret language. Up to now the businessEY
Others
are related to the had found nothing but love, criminal activities of foreign family or business letters. Sud- agents.
denly in the third batch some- thing struck me.
All the mall will be brought to your service and read by the their will It censors.
bc
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HORE MAURO13 Prench A water who known a good deal mots about Engilab_kistory and littoraks roam from studies than most English. of Dickens, Diersell and Dumas to The Art of Being Happy Married.
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Maurois kimsalt, married twica and has chlidren. He was born at EXAM?, a Seine-side town nuir Roven, and will be 70 this manth. In 1938 he was made bath a mamber at and ar the French Academy bonerary KEE. He holds honorary degrees from Oxford, Edinburgh and St. Andrews.
man was in absolute good faith. Mythology had always been his hobby. But all the time he was shadowed and JIC felt nobody trusted him.
Perhaps it would be wiser, in warlime, I said, not to writ about mythology, or if one docs, to give marginal and irrefutable explanations for the benent of
the censor.
The censor
At this moment a strong ex- plosion Alled the offee with smoke. The chairs on which the Commander and I were seated seemed to rise in the air and then fall with us. No one was hurt but the office was in deafening uproar.
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What
this? An attempt on someone's life? An anarchist's mine?
Colonel Cadieu entered our room, a broad smile on his face. I had told you something would happen to you if you were not always on the alert. That explosion wlowed to reach was that of the tulip bulb you its consignce.
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Of course he was not award he was talking in the P.L.W. . "Couldn't somebody come in who loves a battle and never and feed her every day?" asked believes anything in hopelen. the Dog, "and then let her out. He only shrugged his shoulders: and call her in every night?”. when he saw her pushing her “Nobody's coming in here while way through the crowd, smiling
her mysterious smile. I'm away," said the Cat, "pok- ing their noses into kitchen."
my
FR Charles Gray, who "Inside or outside the house?" refused to take her entrance Why air? said Major Dupre.
...DIAN DRAMA we asked whether the man House,
works for Grosvenor asked the Dog..... We asked for an inquiry,
He said: "You're wasting trying to per- "Outside, of course," said the your money, madam. It's hope- was a bona fide merchant. Yessuade Americans to spend
Cat. "I'm not going to let less." he had been for ten years their holidays in Britain, is
her run wild in this place for was a spy all the
Also same.
two weeks." you took it for granted that the reported to have advised parcel would go through the them to do so in the winter. customs, It didn't. It was
as "we are a more reason- In the course of the second brought by underground ways.
the in race was told in able whole story one of the The day on this course
letter which another
"you months.” censors brought to me a lotter
So I taught you a from Holland. A neglected. that came
Although it is true that most Dutch firm informed a French lesson.
Many years later, after the ❘ of us are raving mad in July and correspondent that they were
August when we seo imaginary It war, I mat Major Dupre. sending him tulip bulbs.
sea serpents, roast ourselves was a new species, very rare,
olive on the beaches. and black with red spots. A colour
organise regattas, olde worlde eat?" asked the Dog. plate was joined.
You remember, he said, the dances, and historical
pageants the explosion? The bearing little relationship to "Mice," said the Cat. lesson was invaluable to me. At historical facts, I would say we the beginning of this war, I was only appear to be more reason mice," said the Dog. at the head of a censorship able in the winter because most bureau and I came across a case of us are too cold to do any-
But this time, exactly similar. thanks to Colonel Cadieu's joke, thing but shiver in draughts over the fire and too full of catarrh ask the my investigation was more
to speak. thorough and the Importers of clock-bombs did not get away with it.
Experience keeps a
dear
bc.
Yes? I said. You think thera
Invaluable
bulb and
is something wrong with this? I don't know. There might It came from abroad. Well, you have the address of the correspondent. Have him
Also Investigated. laboratory to have a look at I had road some hours before the plate.
The answer came. Everything a rather boring letter from o fisherman to friend. He had 40ned in order. The laboratory
normal. school, I said. of had found the plate caught a certain number
Signed Benjamin Franklin, correspondent Was gudgeons. The carps and so many He expatiated on the bait used Frenchman who had for years said the Major. and asked his friend for advice. specialized in bulbs. I had
under my eyes a Moreover, I sald, the customs second letter (supposedly welt- will open the parcel and res ten two days after) in which what there is in it.
his
not, onumerated
Ono again he
must
sald thu catches.
Major, exaggerate the precau- mone, I tlons of censorship. I know an
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I shall aak for an American naval officer who got in great trouble, at the end. of
because he In the fourth batch of the the
WAT day the sherman was at it
chief,
writing:
was for
a book of mythology again. I went straight to my his children, The censors could not believe that, when he told the stories of Orphee, Eurydice. Omphale or Medce, there was not a secret, meaning hidden under the words,
I think I've got hold of some- thing, air. Why should a man inform a friend every time he catches a fish?
The poor
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DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?
YES
NO
Put your tick in the space ddove and keep this ponal by you until tomorrow
when the answer will be give another story in this series by .
EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
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• Did yesterday's story—The Cup- traard was Bare, by Julian Symod actually happen? The answer is NO.
MAMIE v. IKE
AMERICA COLUMN
from
NEWELL ROGERS
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in 18 years. In 1937 ha led police to the shallow grave of his wife and three children. He confessed to killing them,
From that moment he never spoke. After years In. the penitentiary as a dumb man he
If anything I would say we are alightly madder in the winter than in the summer because we Full put up a fierce resistance to any kind of comfort such as steam heating, believeing it to
Sho fought her way to the pavilion and noticed that at each entrance there was an offeint "But what's she going to scated at a table to examine
"Neither did 1," said the Caf.
tickets and members' possés. But she told hereself that at some time one of them would "But she doesn't like eating leave his post to get a drink,
and she was right.
After a few minutes' patient observation she saw that a table "But when she went away the was unattended with nothing on a pair of a hat and always said I could eat mice," it but
A moment's "She probably won't find any glasses. Without mice in the garden,
past it hesitation anyway,
she walked and up the steps to the pavillon, said the Dog.
arriving just in time for her favourite meal-tea.
"Neither could I said the Cat. "Sho'll be cold at night,”
be unhealthy. We do not regard said the Dog." with nowhere to it as unhealthy to catch one cold sleep." after another and sniff and "So was 1," said the Cat. blow our way through January and February.
American visitors may be interested to learn that there are still some crazy old EngUsh- men who leap out of their warm
beds on winter mornings and jump into a cold bath,
Even older, crazier, and half- naked Englishmen riso at dawn to break the ice on the Serpen- tine because they think that self- inflicted misery has some com nection with health and longevity.
A smiling waitress found her a table by the window where
she had a perfect view of the ground and she was soon happly drinking tea and munching
"I'm glad Mansy Boy's com- chies, bread and butter and ing with us," said the Dog, jam and cucumber sandwiches. tickling the Mary's ear. "Lucky old Money Boy."
"He's not as lucky as you think,"-
said the Cat. "They won't have men in our hotel."
"But he won't be any trou- blo," said the Dog.
they're always a trouble," said the Cat, "with their meals on the floor mucking up the hotel carpetk And where's, he go», ing to sleep?"
"On our bed, of course," said
I think Americans would find the Dog. us most reasonable and less "Not on
mine," said the Cat, obviously mad in autumn and
"scratching his fleds all night, springin autumn because we are choked into silent activity
"But we
can't leave him by fog and in spring because here," said the Dog. most of us, weakened by winter
either go to a Man's colds, are in bed with influenza. "He can
Home or be put down," said
was taken to a mental hospital Dog And Cat Story
*
THE Dog and the Cat had grown so big and the Mon
resumed When play. War after the tes Interval she had the
rup impertinence smartly on the window when reat members with tickets
10
stood up and obscured her
view. They cowered down their seats and somebody
器
another table ald Quite right. They ought to know better"
:
For a full hour the P.L.W. had a wonderful time watching. her favourite game, played by. some of the cricketers the t madly in love with, including Denis Compton. Her only dis appointment was that her lavo of loves, Freddie Trueman, was not playing.
Then, as fortune favours the the Cat. "In fact I'd like to brave, a member in the front de them both put down, Tow got up and noticing the They're getting old and mangy P.L.W. still at the ten table, and it would be a kindness in raised his hat and said: "I am leaving now. Would you like the end."
my seat?"
So, for the last thrilling hours of the day the P.LW, watched the game from the best position at the Ovat.'
and the Woman had shrunk so. The Test Match
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being cut to balance the Budget Doctors warned he would lose
· And Washington reports and cut, taxes, he hears from his powers of spooch. Officials
told him ho could not get 5.00 mother and son are losing reports...
would entail. gravo parolo unless he spoke. to "The 4.00 out
Spirit of This
danger at home and would be Now 01, he waits to hear from 1.00 Geneva." Until the Summit disastrous to U.S. allee, he says, the parole board in McAlester,
small that it was the Dog and He says that the United States Oklahoma. meetings the President was
his is losing its margin
the cat who were sitting in arm- hesitating between
military of Leadership over Rusia.
AMERICAN JÁcscendants of the chairs. Listening to a radio apposi family and his country.,
A Pligrim Fathers, who cross for the care of pets durit pariner, the Plucky Little
THE story of how my life.
It was only at 6.20 when the 24.00 Geneva bucked 'him up.
RETREAT by the US Army ed the Atlanto in the May holidays while the Man wat at 3.00 was happy to think he had from its campaign to get lower in 1820 to settle in the Dog's feet and the Woman Woman saw the Test Match players were coming in that the 15.00 helped lemon war fears.
reservists into active service. It Moestichutta, will ay to Lon- curled herself up in a comer of from the first row in the mem real mentides began, to suspect Now the Wall Street Journal sent fake choques to 82,050, to don in à British airliner. Time: the sofa,"
bers' stand on a day when the that the F.L.W. was not one of ||||1.50 | says: "Republican polillefans no show how much money they lost 17 hours. · In 1020: 10 wowdak.
Oval was packed to capacity is their select company, We can take Munay Boy sway worth telling to a country full white they c 1.50 longer even consider the pool by missing summer training WASHINGTON is getting with uncaid the Dog patting et
cont unenterprising to polite bility that the President will dis- camps.
spoon-fed, WA ready to offer the Brits the Man's bald head, but what young people, Four conorviate succeeded.
the PILYWEIG met appoint them le
cashing theirs for smounts from
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