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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1955.

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THE FLIGHT OF THE KAZAK TRIBESMEN

B

about

EFORE I met the

Kazak nomads

in

their new homes in Turkey, I knew little

By Godfrey Lias

Osman Batur Coman the Hero.

started

They

which.

like most

THIS

IS

DENVER

WHERE IKE

LIES ILL..

By RENE MacCOLL

W1

HAT'S It like in Denver, Colorado, whard President Eisenhower lies ill?

In mile-high Denver the sun sparkles and the air crackles, and you can buy a Geiger counter on easy pay- ment terms at the "uranium age coay corner store,"

"Personalised rubber door- mats" with the houseowner's name on it in giant letters are all the rage; it is almost as difficult not to feel stimu- lated as for a mute to do well in a yodelling contest.

I leap up in the morning at 6 a.m. (a rare event back in London), gulp in some mountain air, and nip down- stairs for a sirloin steak breakfast (again scarcely in keeping with my homeside habits).

Oh, the colours

NEW limousines are every-

whero

huger and

brassier than ever. The colours? It looks as if some- body had

gone mad in 23 paint shop . mauves and violets and pucc.

And clothes? While the feminine styles of New York and San Francisco are on the flashy side and tend to look overdressed by British standards, they resemble the cloaks of 18th century Puri- tana compared with the styles around here.

ing engle Kazaks, he used to carry with him on his wrist when hunting in the mountains, in much the same way as people in England

to carry falcons them except that and herds with them, but

many The principal Kazak leader of They started in early Febru- used

that the ago, except they were supposed to be n they lost most of the recent years was a man named ary 1951, which is the wors! years

three leot race which lived mainly by animals on the way and per- Osman was born in 1800

part of the Tibetan winter. All eagles stood nearly and Beg's party of 234 men, women high. stealing horses or by high- haps a quarter of their own became a guerilla fighter at the and children, fought six or The Kazaks are Moslems and way robbery or both. Now I people. They stayed in age of 12. It is said of him that seven butties against either the the men are therefore entitled

to Kashmir 15 months while with a rifle while chasing it on munista, sometimes both

he could shoot a running hare Tibetans or the have actually talked

Chinese Com- to more than one wife, if they them, I can say that they efforts were made to find horseback at full gallop.

with several thousand can afford them. Ali Beg him- self has three. When our visit are an intelligent, highly permanent homes for them. When the Chinese Communist sheep, several hundreds each of

Wo of them their In the end, the Turkish Army seized the province courageous, and most hos-

in cattle and horses, and about co ended,

names are Mulla and Kodisha- 1942, they surrounded Osman camels. pitable people-as I think Government offered to take

sang a farewell song, the words Batur's encampments and be-

of which they wrote themselves you will agree when you them. They accepted, and, sleged them for several months About 80 to 70 members

the occasion. Each verse heard their extra- when I visited them, the without being have

nine- and nearly able to capture the party

the same refrain: ordinary story.

nomad Kazak tent dwellers them. Rusian troops were then tenths of the animals were dead ended with

to is our farewell song with by the time the refugers

trad vou

The Kright of the Golden

note with men, tanks, heavy artillery

after a jour Comb, who left your own coun- and reached Kashmir I spent nearly two months were settling into little brick brought up and attacked

though, is ney which lasted six and a half

informality. visiting them. They left houses for the first time in aeroplanes,

But

Osman Batur

500 udies try specially to visit us in our There is an attempt to keep broke months, For about their lives.

now home." nititude

All Beg explained through them and extricated not they were at an

σ that the Order of the Golden going the "old West" tra- Test only his men but also their more than 12,000

Comb was founded by Genghis dition with cowboy shirts families and their flocks, taking sea level, and they crossed

Khan that is to say, about the them more than 300

miles number of passes which

and chaps, but they look as time of our Order of the Garter. across open country to a ren more than 18,000 fect.

phoney as 11s. notes. dezvous with All Beg's Kazaks in another part of the province. The Kazaks used to got armS

their homes in central Asia and trekked about 2,000" miles across deserts and through Himalayan moun- tain passes rather than give up the pastoral way of life which they and their ances- tors have lived and loved for thousands of years.

In Revolt

Small Groups

cattle,

in

which

Chinese

No

Roads

of

for

aboyo

were

His personal tent men using the forges

barrels in their encampments, mist at high altitudes. Ali Beg

Ambushed

ZORIC DRY CLEANING the Kazaks were almost camp, which they normally Osman Batur was captured

CAN ONLY BE DONE IN A "ZORIC" UNIT. THERE IS BUT ONE IN THE COLONY. IT IS USED AT . . .

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Nowadays, the title is simply used as a compliment to homured guest.

Green Oasis

971

. Denver women are parti- cularly keen on cartwheel hats in glittering gold silver.

or

Advertisements urge the well- dressed men to hurry and join the trend-get that envied lean, clean-cut British look!"

So for, however, the Ican British kok seems to have eluded Denver. The stetson is well ahead of the bowler general preference,

Oh, the bellboys

I

WAS last here, just before the war, and the changes are staggering.

In their old homes, the Kazaks lived very much as

Kazak dancing is interesting Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob from the Russians, who wanted

rather than attractive. I watched used to do. For example, to undermine Chinese influence

The Sinklang.

Cact an old dancer named in the There were no roads there is All Beg, a fine-look- Nationalists also

gave

them part of Tibet the Kazaks cross- dancing, or, rather miming, the

of Dance

the Black Stallion, in the middle some when the Communists be- ed, and All Beg found his way These Kazaks used to live ing man

a after with the help of a compass and which represents the life of in felt tents in the Altai forties. When he lived on gun to be active again

the Second World War. The

it is a sheet tom from a school atlas, stallion from the time and Tien Shan mountains, the banks of the Kizil Uzun, Kazaks themselves captured

fooled. The Dance of the Roe- near where the Russian, the Red River, in the Tien good many weapons in suDCESS- One of their worst troubles buck is much the same except

the TO- that

the dancer performa Chinese, and Mongolian Shan mountains, he owned ful forays and ambushes. They was an illness which

as tutuk-18 standing on his head instead of also made weird and wonder- fugees describe frontiers meet in the Chinese about 100,000 animals- ful, and very deadly,

on his feet, which he waves in weapons the fog swelling which was oc- camels, province of Sinkiang.

noee the air in time with the music fat-tailed from lengths of iron piping companied by heavy sheep, and horses.

they changed into gun bleeding brought on by an icy to represent the animal's horns.

with which last five children from tutuk-isa sured nearly 40 feet across. they made the shoes for their and now has only one left, a son In the centre hung a huge horses.

named Hassan who learnt to

There is tremendous pros- speak and write passable Eng-

perity and wealth, with, masses This province came under iron cooking-pot, big enough

lish during hda 15 months in

flnd But though I did not the influence of Soviet Rua- to take a whole sheep. When

of small, bright, bungalow-style Kashmir.

such dancing exactly attractive, homes and scores of thousands sia in 1984, and, after that, he and his group moved

the setting was really lovely. Inof healthy looking people. During a fight with Tibetans the background was the great

and The population has nearly continuously in revolt did twice a year, it took the the Communists on February 1, in April 1851, both parents of a Turkish mountain Erciyas, against Communist attempts combined efforts of five or 1951. The Free Kazak forces little boy aged mine were killed in the foreground a little stream doubled to

Abe by surprise while and the small boy himself got which came to life out of

a few yards away to to interfere with their way six men to hoist this great were taken

their lenders were holding a left behind. The party trekited ground of life. When Soviet in- cooking-pot on to the back council of war, Oman and his on for many hundreds of miles, help form an oasis of green pop- daughter were hurrying back to fluence waned during the of a special camel,

Most of the Kazaks lived their own encampment, 15 miles who about four months, and lara and fruit trees in a sea of most plushy hotel the help is it was waiting for per- light-brownish, sun-dried earth. apt to be a collection of misfits miles mission to cross the Kazaks fought

when she fell into

Indian In the centre was Cadl, socom- and octogenarians, against the Chinese Nation in small groups of about 100 Communist

frontler the little boy turned up panied by another Kazak re- ambush. Osman,

umcon- fugee named Karamullah). ΟΠ alists, almost winning their families, each under a minor who was

way behind, again, alone and quite

He was too small to the dumbri, which is a kind of independence.

chieftain. A group of this charged the Communists single- corned

handed, firing his machine- catch the party up while it was two-stringed guitar. But then, in 1946, the size (numbering, say, 400 to

to follow its tracks. He had a Perhaps it is too soon to may Communists came back 500 people) often owned ng gun from the hip and actually on the move but not too small

picking them off one by ole kuule, and a knapanck

filled how the Kamal nomada it--officers first--with again, Russians as well as many as 10,000 sheep, be with

with bread, when he was left settle down in their new home

Thore Chinese,

of cattle, bursts of two or three shots. 90 the Kazaks sides thousands

The Communists turned

behind, and he was able to reall and joined with the Nationalists. horses and camel, in addition ran, those who still could, and the knapsack with bits and Mount Exeiras have agreed to the two plecos he cut off with his knife become farmers, and the Tur- The Nationalists gave up to those which were the per- it looked as though the struggle in 1949 but the sonal property of the chief. Kazaks would get safely away, from what was left of the beasts, kish Government has given each

But unforturmtely Osman the party in front of him had Kazaka continued to resist

Batur's horse fell as they were eaten at the various ancamp the combined Chinese and Russian Communist forces for about 18 months.

war,

Bome

Nomadic Life crossing frozen lake Father ments.

the

**

A Mystery

living at Dovell,

near

of them a piece of land, ready ploughed and sown, and

tax

dfree. on condition that they stay to cultivate it for ten years.

All Beg's group, not far from Izmir-or Smyrna-asked the Turkish mauthorities not to give them land but to let them work

daughter defended, them- selves for Ave hour but both were captured in the end. Finally, about 2,000 of In the summer, the group Or the day Osman Batur was

up to the beheaded and moved its tents

Communists them-- men, women

the

The country was very bleak as navvies on a hydro-electric children decided to fight highlands where there was paraded him through the streets

of the provincial capital, and there were almost no in scheme so that they could save their way across Tibet to good pasture up to the snow- Urumchi, with his face

winter, they d as a mark of shame and

・a wild animals. How he survived how they havo:eep. Some- Kashmir, taking their flocks line. In the

adquirod brought the tents down placard on his chest which said: is a mystery, and unfortunately again to the foot-hills, about "He promised he would free his he himself could not throw any

but light on it because it never oc 8,000 to 4,000 feet above sold out instead to tre Bri- curred to him that

amuntry from the Chinese

he was

sea level. Sometimes, when th and Americans. But his doing anything out of the or

they grew tired of one spot, dormentors had not gagged him dinary. Ho simply set to end

little flock of about 100. animals and have chosen a co-

munal shepherd, to looks after

them. He receives no wages and

想 jexpected to, hand back | 200

animals on the first anual day

of reckoning, which, wil be next September. If there are any

shepherd.

or of their chieftain, they along may die, but so long about

and be i shouted as be wont fid it and then thought no more

moved to another area.", as the world lants - nis, people of All Beg's compass and man more they will belong to the St. John Ambulance dom and their nomadic way of When the remnants of the were conducated, by the Indians

Brigade

But they clung to their tree will continue the struggle.

Seeing that "Dan" Archer's life throughout the centuries Kazak forcer left 6inking to at the frontier as military equip

'one' and 'three- against every attempt to settle go to Kashmir shey travelled in ment, But he was allowed to flock averaged Free Ambulance Service for them. So, when the Communale small groups, each under its losep his ceremonial clothes, in quarter lambe per owe, I think calf- the Kazak shepherd will not do Emergency Accident Carte tried to drive them into mines personal chieftain, and took cluding his wonderful

[and factories, Or. collective different router, in case there length coat of snow leopard so badly Indeed. I feel con- farma, and also to take away should not be enough mod for skine, and his velvet tumak, or ficlecik that all the Kasak- } re- their flocks and herde, they ro4 MSINGITUS, DF sodder for their hot, linwit wilts for fur, The fuzeen will be independent jook sisted again."

Tel. Hong Kong 71111 Tel. Kowloon 32222

800,000 alnce

the

war. And the servants?

Servants? Well, in even tho

TV in every room? Oh, yes But -as a matter of course, the bellboy who lugs your bag up is so decrepit you can hard- ly bear to watch him do it.

Mile-high Denver. Sky-high wages. Tip-top prices. And not enough people.

POCKET CARTOON | by OSBBRT LANCASTER

“Lare they've found another.

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