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"THE... CHINA - MAIL," MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1956) |

MISTY'S THE SHADOWS IN THE SUNSHINE ARE BEING DRIVEN AWAY...AWAY!

KELLY'S KINGDOM

Monte Carlo

VEN the animals in tho Monaco 200 were given speelal tit-bits the day that Prince Rainier's engage.

ment was announced.

It was Iko #1 national fete here in this pocket- sized principality by the Mediterranean. The red-nud- white flag of Monaco blos semed on all the buildings. given -Schoolchildren

the day off.

were

Even multi - millionaire Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis, who has not been on speaking terms with the

Prince for months. de- corated his yacht and sent

cheque to a £1,000

the Prince's favourite charity. Such was the delight of the Monegasques that their handsome young bachelor

Prince has at last found himself a bride. For the problem of a successor { the throne of Monaco has been keeping the hotel- keepers and business men of the 346-nere principality awake at nights for months.

WORRIED

THEY were

worried for this reason: If the Prince should have no heir the State of Monaco, under an agreement signed with France in 1918, would cease to exist. It would become part of France.

And that would

mcan

MISS Kelly in * striking ensemble AM seen in her latest

Catch pleture "To Thief,"

showing

now

in Hongkong.

A

Now that their Prince is

Alm going to marry

star Grace Kelly they are look ing forward to a return to the trouble-free days of pre- war when Monte Carlo was the No. I gambling resort in Europe.

The shadows in the sun shine and there have been lots of them since the

being war — are

driven that Monegasques would away, have to start paying income To start with there was tax. They would also be the Shadow of the Missing liable for military service, Gamblers.

Is

Grace 'Lady Luck

For Monaco

By JEFFREY BLYTH

After the war the majority of British tourists, always the mainstay of Monte Carlo, no longer had the money to splurge over the green-batze tables in the mugar-white Casino.

Bought the Bank at Monte Carlo. This was Aristotle Onassis.

Monaco had found a way out of the depression. It was Juring big business men not with bathing beauties in Those who had the money bikinis but the prospects of were afraid to produce it no taxation. in

the CAMO

Treasury snoopers were watching.

Even the Americans were missing. They were staying ut home and losing their money at Las Vegas instead,

A new boom was on. The old gasworks was torn down to make way for a soft drink plant. New viilas, offices, and flats shot up. Property was at a premium.

Then Onassis, attracted The Casino-desperate to win back its customers by the bait, took a bigger

than began to allow shorts and bite

expected urid open-merked shirts around bought up the fast-fading und the gambling tables. Fruit Casino-lock, stock, machines were imported. A roulette table. team of croupiers flew to America intricacies of the dice game it was only office space he craps.

was after.

to master the

All it did was shock the handful of aged dowagern who, in their faded finery and ropes of pearls, still spend their afternoons

There was a crisis-until Onassis reassured everyone

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Little wonder that the 22,000 short-lived 4

citizens watched anxiously for established

signs that the Prince might be public in Monaco,

For several falling in love.. Ministers responsible for the years Prince had

the

been The Prince friendly

with French actress money were fleed. reinstated them. Eleven mem- Giselle Pascal, But three bers of his council resigned in months ago she married some- protest. There were rumours one else. of a plot to seize the throne,

With money biginning to worst pour in, the Monegasques decided it was about time to go ahead with a grand new acheme for improving the place with a new beach and harbour, covered shopping streets, and a helicopter ser- vice to nearby Nice.

Most of the money for the venture was invested in the semi-official, quaintly named Bunk of the Precious Metals

The bank, in turn, had in- vested heavily in a group of companies which planned to ex- ploit commercial TV is Monaco.

It was hoped to make a for- tune from French manufac- turers unable to advertise their the non-commercial wares on State-owned network.

But the scheme flopped. The French Government on whose soil, for space reasons, the trans- mitters had been built refused an advertising ilcence. The bank went bust.

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The Prince, away cruising in his £50,000 yacht Deo Juvente when he heard the rumours, hurried home and gave instruc- tions for a new council to be clected.

CLAIMS

in

The Monegasques were dis.. There was the Prince mayed.

Around happily dashing fast sports cars, setting oft on Guiana dangerous expeditions to French to trap wild animals the for his zoo--and just across border, breathing hotly down the French their necks,

and the

income tax

were

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"What If there add to the Monegasques' accident?"

whispered they Tvor to the ach other. They whisper dared

rid claim to be the rightful her think what would happen.

It was with rellef, therefore, that they received the news of the Prince's engagement to the beautiful Miss Kelly.

When the Soviet leaders rant about “'colonialism” conveniently Russia's record, both and after- the Bolshevik Revolution.

colonialem they consent to forget

Mr Kruschev's

Glass

House

By EDGAR STERN-RUBARTH

FN their recent tirades Colonial conquest reached its

Marshal Bulganin and quired a sanguinary war, last-

subjugation of Turkestan re

Mr Kruschev have

been ing

from 1880 to 1805,

and addressing largely iterate won by Russia only after audiences. The masses of Cherniayev hnd stormed Tash- kent in 1884. The next victims India and Burma could Rent word

the khanates hardly appreciate that and Bukhara, whore

capital

Lagainst colonialism peak in the 19th century. The

ať

Russia's colonial record is ancient Mohamedan the most ruthless in his- Samarkand fell in 1868. tory,

Khiva

tho of Tho

Russian General. Kaufmann, allowed it to be looted for four

China's Loss

It is odd, though, that days. even in the West the do- tails of this record in Ita little carlier stages are known. Yet in terms of the area conquered, it was in 1879, and the Transcasplan

land, previously Persion, probably the greatest EX "colonlaed" between 1881 and pansion of dominion of all 1885 after the stronghold of time, and no occans had to Goek Teppe, near Merv, hud be crossed to achieve it. been stormed by the

on

the

Khiva suffered the same faté

Was

Russian

Japan

of

It started in 1681, when the forces.

In the Far East, the huge Cossack Yermak Timofeyevich,

and coastal provinces enployed by the great merchant mur

been wrested family Stroganov,

penetrated had, meanwhile,

from China, who had to Into Siberia and stormed Sibir, or Loker,

cept their conquest by the Aigun the river Irty, treaty of 1858, while the seed capital of

Tatar Khan

Khan for the 1905 war with Kuchum, From the area thus was laid by the occupation brought under the rule of Ivan Sakhalin in 1875. the

forces Terrible, Russian

The whole record of this con- started the conquest of Siberia, quest of the greater part 02 The akm Was originally Asia has always been герген mercantile; Siberia's precious sented as a civilising mlesion furs were in demand all over among a few nomadic tribes.

QTMİ Europe. Tobolsk

Bolshevik Omsk, The

regime both on the Irtysh, were erect pursued the same line. The ed as fortresses. The river Ob Tannu-Tuva and the Mongolian was reached by 1004, and the republics, cut from the body of Yenisyet by 1018. but

not China, are nominally "indepen the dent," and the Russian penetra- without

hard fighting;

over tion of Chinese East Turkestan Tunguz struggled for

has

three years, from 1607 to 1010, in disguised as a "helping hand"

for Peking. for their liberty and indepen-

But the label of "Auto- dence.

nomous Republics" for the sub- jugated non-Russian peoples comparable in the least with the Dominion stats and full right Bri- of self-determination of became tain's former colonies? Five

Pacific Shore

20

and Their popula deported or

Despotism

In 1652 the Lake Baikal was of in sight, and Irkutske The outpost of Russian colonisa- "republies" were simply liquid- tion, while

in the thinly po- ated and wiped off the map, pulated north the river Lena soon after World War 11-the hnd been reached 20 years Volga German, Kalmyk Kara- earler, In 1048 a first

cheyov, Chechen-Ingush, Crimean ones. tion on river boots

were info Chinese tloris along the Amur territory. Another force joined dispersed. the enterprise a year later, but It needed over

years of Berce fighting before, in 1889,

with China

By September, 1941, 800,000 gave treaty

the Volga Germans had been moved Russia a foothold on

In to Central Siberia, Their sin Pacific shore, strengthened 1087 by the occupation of the was their descent from German sotilers, 27,000 of whom Kamchatka peninsula.

Catherine the Great had in- Between 1730 and 1740, un-

duced to migrate to the lower der the Empress Anne, a thru Valga, between 1704 and 1787, southward was made into what and who ever since had proved

Kazakhstan, is today

around faithful and valuable

Russian the Aral Sea and Lake Balk- citizens.

with but minor results.

Such measures of despotism, 1819 and 1853 between

simplo by

decree of the the Khiwiz and other Kremlin, seldom permeate tho in Monaco and help nomadic tribes Anally subject- curtain of BeсTOCY around

bu! Moscow's colonialism;

in On the European borders of September 1992 the Autonomous Russia the Turkish Crimea and Republic of Uzbekistan, in the Kuban district

an- Central Siberia, WES publicly nexed under Catherine the attacked, and suppression

of its "bourgeols" Great In 1783 and 1784.

nationalism, actionary Pan-Islamisma and Pan-Turkism was announced.

After the Flat World War Moscow ruthlessly suppressed the re-established self-govern- ment in Georgia and other Caucasian regions, each with a civilisation 1,000 years older than Russla'e. They had lost their Independence in 1889 after 20 years of bitter fighting.

hash.

Only

to the throne. She was the Countess de Coumont la Force, niece of a German duke who in was leval heir to the throne in 1938

but was barred

Only one thing worries them from

wwere now that the wedding should claiming it because of the war,

Then in England a 40-year- be held ela publican, George Grimaldi, tract this year more from Ightham,

than ever to this Ittle palm- repeated

fringed paradise by the sen

TOMORROW: The Kelly Family Back Home

Kent,

his claim that he, a direct male descendant of an 18th-century heir, should by rights be on the Monaco throne.

tourists ed.

were

ROUND-THE-WORLD BELLE

SIGNS ON A SHIPMATE

....to help peel the potatoes, she explains

doesn't show

bas "ibe

I've

rem

The swallowing of the Baltic republics, tho conquest of Finnish, Polish, Czechoslovak territory, and the annexation of half East Prussia, were equally the colonialion in the sense that all these areas were inhabited by in every populations different way from their conquerors. In- deed, what brands Russia today as a colonial power of the frất water is the assortment of races under Moscow's hoel,

best- over

VERY year thousands (they will sell theirs in New Ted Barker is busy burrow- instead. Still," brightening. "T

If you can of young Australians Zealand)

getting under the floor-boards and supporo It across the Paclie, that is, pour into Britain

granite ballast-blocks for rot in dirt." "Two boats of the same type the

timbers which is then

But she (52,000 in 1954). Their as this have set off from here carefully chipped away. Les reasons for coming seem already. The first one struck a Verily, the fair-hatred, quietly equipped galley vague. "Just to look reef at Aden and went down. spoken Australian shipwright soen," to compensate. around"

The other loft two months ago who they'll

is sailing with them is

When do they sail? and wo haven't heard nation of tall-storytellers, them yet."

from rebuilding the wheel-house."

"Frankly we don't know yet. they know better than to

"The last one was terrifically Belle,

The slim, long-legged There's all a lot to do. a

month believe in anything on some over-organised," explains Bellc. creature with a yard of straight bout will be ready in

had everything

we haven't twico brown hair, is serving tea in but

we seen all body else's say-80. To look "They

want to see of Europe yet.” around really is what they come for.

say.

A

And having looked around doing odd jobs for a year or sö -they start thinking about getting back.

By ANNE SHARPLEY

A Boomerang

The Soviet Union has 50 million, inhabitants, fully 3 quarter of its total, whose Their route?

mother tongue still differs from that of the dominating Russians. “We're going by Panama. We Of these 20 million belong to shall stop wherever we want the Moslem-Turk nations —

All they pini-mugs. The long hair and to. We're not making any Khazars, Kazakhs, Turkmenians, over-engines, zalls. needed was another bost pottery mugs betray, perhaps. plans. If we want to make a Uzbeks, Khirgiz, Paturs, and no trailing behind all the time to some of the Chelsea influence uttle money on trading copra on. Over five million are Eastern be absolutely safe."

they are taking back with them between the Islands then we Finns, over two million Armen- after living in the Fulham shall do that for a couple of fans. Other milions belong to Опо concluded that the Road for a good part of the mouths," Barker, vessel

wero was going to two years since they somewhere between its married. come two predecessora - better

Like Ted Barker and his wifo Belle for instance, whose "Todd jobs" in two years have included

dishes, washing making lee-cream, and running a club.

In a quito typically Aistes- llan way they are not just going to buy their tickets and xo back. They have bought a bost. And they will get there under their own diesel power (two miles a gallon is guilon=-10,000 railes)-aidna, bự mall when the winds favour

The Mongolian ruces Tunguz, Yakuts. The Tadzjiks speak Persian, the Mordviniams, Mari, Udmurts and others”, in Narth- west Siberia Finnish."-

· The⋅ religions-embrace ·ths: Creek Orthodox and Roman | Catholic churches, Protestant and - many other Christian-necta; the Jewish, Buddhist and “My Lamalat creads, besides Animist

Who will be' crew?

"We're taking an engineer, a organised than to run into # Two dedant scarlet patches

where her navigator and all-round hard reef-more trusting than to have been own

To help take two of everything.

black slacks have worn into worker" mold Tod.

me poet the potatoes," sidde holes.

Belle.

Their boat is a Gift, long by

wide ex-Admiralty My Around them In the "icon" (they change hands for about of the Wombat-once the hold experience is that if everyone worship, and there a VAR

Ted will be captain, £1500). These Initials stazidi for Motor Fishing Veel refrigerator, monastic-looking anywhere.

amorted objects bas their say you don't got areas of Islamic detomination, boat evolved for D-Day with heavy oak table, safari chairs the intention to convert them covered

..

There she once Independent, proud nations, if numerically it a dismal brown we're not worried about alone which have their "There's nothing startling in to fishing vessels, afterwards. brocadera, rurfødt African how long it takes.· ́One year, own written characters, derived It: People we going out. to Australia and New Zealand in memorates D-Day has gone to Belle regards

two years or ever three years from the Greek alphabet," › and which com The plaque

what does it matter?" their own iterature azok the dismále little boats all the tune," are as resepraved being a naval brocade (which permeates the A pleasant feeling of times, ment of the colonial

The present worldwide and Ted Barker, comaRlly,

ship

they polites, KII' DORE In the form of little lenu-bium seme-and-eternal suna" not, as yok, haya There is

wording, "on"

curtains, mushions)and bunk- and moons", began to settle on Hutar Krushchev resion, he explains. You can . Now, under the new, "name" covers): "Ted... mys! We can't, the battered, unpainted little clewatkan OCHRANE M1WAYS? WELL, CA, Borworthy Barutt Wombat, the ex-MFV, is belria, Afford to get it changed,, ship cat, its figny : Lilworth may, Code 12 "on the other side of the Pažite madh ready,

would love to have Szédő modring.

boomerens

tho