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THE FUTURE OF MALAYA

SULTANS PLAY BIG PART

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By JAMES WICKENDEN

London talks would succeed.

The alm

her Affairs relations and

ONDON'S hospitality was that Mainya should at once

lake charge of all for the Malayan dele

except external gation to discuss defence. independence could not be nore royal. The seven Malay lenders and two

The Tengku stressed the fight which Communisin in nguinst

line. Malaya was in the front the Malay would continue fight their against Conununist terrorism, the faika suceceded Maluyn could become a "shop- wings of St James' Court-window for democracy...shoulder since Tudor times the to shoulder with the other in- symbol of diplomatic pro- dependent emuntries tocol.

with Chinese staffs live in the red brick and

Commonwealth

of the in solving the problems which face the many world today."

Secret Session

seconded

Haji Abdul Wahab

sentiments of the Chief Minister

behalf of un

They Came from there the few yards Across to Lancaster House. mag- nificent in gold emblazonxi And ceilings, marble walls red plush, for the first day e of the talks on January 18,

Shafts of winter

shone over the balcony into the square audience room, across the purple from table cover, and sparkeri

the the crystal chandelier atıd microphones. There weN SVON of them in front of Tengku Abdul Rahina's seat alone

ון

The

Sultans, Then the netic Out- went into secret gession. sun

sure the tall windows came the tramp of feet and roundeg anarch as a Guards detachment with grey

greatcoats, busbies and bayonets,

through swung

St James' the portals of mount company guard.

The

Arst

before tisk

The

raveling

10

arrange for Was working parties to decuse the problems. The 1wo env{

At 10.15 precisely in came the Tengku wearing a fez-shapel *songkok' Malay hat, his Pare RTAVE. With him was Colonia Secretary Lennox-Boyd, fit and smiling after his recent holiday In Switzerland

Chief Architect

The other Malnyans followerst and then the British delegation High Commissioner MacGafhv.

this ray, a chief architect

Malaya's latest stage

nat- vancement, hollow-checked bul tanned, wore a broad grin and walked past his sent He was redirected by his assistunt. Mr Watheraton.

the volec

the front-

chief ones are finance and de- fence; for it is recognised Lay both sines that the burdens

Keeping

Malaya in Kainst Communism" will have to be shared with Brilaita. Throughout the talks there is bound to be a flavour of Malay tradition. For, despite the Trend towards the rule of the people,

of Malay Sultan to be strongly heard. If the optimistic tone of the talks con- nues There musy emerge from 11.3772 મ type of constitution entirely new to the world. mari As the cameras whirred

Its form will he R

Prime clicked. Abdul Bahanan polished the head--as a form of "royal

Presantent of the

with

elected his spectacles

president Perak State Counell, Haji Alidul fegislature beneath 11. Ira Wahab, folded his hands ag

sottie respecta 1 would bu meditating.

similar to the constitutional After

the Malayat nunarchy in Britain. ,Pནཾ:‘fr}Iig delegation the cameras on the British. There were stil several erupty seats in the large

of Defence setion. Temax-Royal

rose

turned

and

pul-

spoke firmly and rapidly, ting his head on one side, waving his hand and slig welcome to the Malayans, call- ing them frienda.

mot

in

Great Event

The launclang of Malaya-Lives mehest country per head of In Southeast Asla population and the sterling ren's chver doltor varner to nationtiond would be the greatest political event this your in Thu fre wucht. When it comes bound 1 stiffen Ile sticky Innme cudition of Southeast Asia over the gloom of

Abdul Rahmats replied deliberately and in lower tones They were very comfortable, he said, and they came with good

The will for the British people. Federation wanted independere Communism.

bul there was

n intenti

of

with Malaya would remain

Pevering The connection

Britain

which hangs

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IN

Bub the effort to acineve

Fre Jonk The wolks #n will

Just Lotion are experts! Three or even six weeks. Al'Ar in the Common wealth,

1x A Vom/19sion

Lu vig|1 "You were quick to respond that (to

out further for Mulaya Malaya's suggestion?

To this talk. My only desire is details. that this event will be recorded creates in letters of gold and not mud.

wurk

be The test will smooth military affich financial relations with Britain, which has to remain 719 the guarantor of Malaya's freedom. (COPYRIGHT)

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1956.

For

time the investigation contros round Old Time

Dancor.

A KILLER WALKS AMONG YOU!

THE HOUSEWIFE WHO LOVED DANCING

T is over two years

now

I

since

it hap

pened. No one knows

Fawkes Night and could have been caused by children.

A great many bares the murdert or the started but none lad for. Some Ho murdered woman?

VALENTINE DYALL By

who did it, no motive this minute and discussing Was it

Was found. It

# man, have

them with a friend. but it may later light a fire or been 21 line a shelf with this

haa been probably might well

woman.

WAA

Unless it

mind more mad than could be con- cealed so long, then it must have been a deliberate nct of hate or anger.

One thing is certain. The very murderer did not stay long to No one page, and to all the world contemplate his work.

tm- could fail to notice the acrid ho is just using

smell of a cigarette burning on dally

a carpet.

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personal page of a paper.

NO ONE SEEN

werd

blood was found in a nearby telephone booth. It was proved to belong to a dMeative. bogus meter man with a nasty

ing Hino In improper suggestions

in was reported the district. He was found and questioned, had nothing to do but clearly with the murder. There was a

A

hand. But this right was

The next thing known is that

story of a man scen running Adrien came home from school down Holland Road with but could not get into the house blood-sooked towel wrapped because he had forgotten his round one

Otherwise he would have rather too key

his mufflated the body.

obvious

YET on January 18, 1964, ochother, dead and mudover apparently seen only in hear

on the corner

Whe, unless they knew what they

in the middle of were about, would murder in such a afternoon, someone opened

As it was, his father coming way? To stab and club a the garden gate of Norton

of home at 5.45 fourd blm waiting WOTTAN 32 times by her Lodge,

In the street. They went in own fireside, using her own Holland Road, Coventry, ell together, the father grumbling without that his wife was so late back. kitchen knife, and leave her tered the house

a few Opening the sitting-room door sitting in a chair with not trouble, and within

murdered

Mra he saw the sight just in time to thing in the room dis- minutes

push his son back through the Phyllis Mogano turbex. Leaving

door, and then he ran to phone that one knife the police. her

J

so pouceful that until realised the

dead you would

she visitor.

had

even

a scene Penelope

you so brutally was stroke almost severed not think tongue. Then this person

of the had

house No one saw

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Whoever "X" may be, he or she seems to buvo the perfect mur- executed

not only has For. there been no arrest, there has been no clue or motive found.

der.

So safe is that murderer he may well be still that reading these very words at

ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY by CEDRIC CARNE

NO NEED

TO BE

NEED TO

SCARED

ABOUT THAT OPERATION

Y

~ESTERDAY I needed a with information about her haircut. I took an recent operation, before could even raise my hat. hour off, "eaving my assistant to cupe. It had

been

Lo make

-SUR

"First they gave me week and I thing 2 hard

me pleasantly didn't want to think about drowsy. Then this marvellous medical matters, but I met injection of Pentothal, and be- Mrs Swann near the post fore I could count three 1 knew no more about it until I woke up in bed. I wasn't even sure whether I'd had the operation or not.

office. of

His voice roses and he looksi up. He was confident that tho

She

said rapidly, "Good morning." and slabbed me

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on

Rall anaemia. Or again, there is ob-

ructive Jaundice. where stones or other agencies stop the flow through the bile duct. Not to mention,

"Gall gones, that's it." inter- rupted the barber triumphantly. "That's what they said at the hospital,"

19

1 is said that candidates for gall stones are women who are

sald Sam "Stone a crowd," fair, fut and 40.

"She's well over 40, dark us

"And with all the care and I am and thin as e rake." Which only proves, of course, that one exercises afterwards wes

while my can never generalise. my feet in no time, Agure is as trim as ever."

During the war, when officers talked to me

working ofler hours about their minor ments in the mess,

all-

INTENSE PAIN

I used to APART from

say loudly in front of all the others (unless It was urgent): "Be a good chap and strip." It

They usually worked.

would decide to visit me at sick quar- lers in the morning. But I didn't mand hearing about Mrs Swann's experience. She was so cheerful about it.

Soon, though, I was with my barber Sam, who happily never He discusses medical subjects. has philosophic turn of mind. naturally, when he Bald, "What do you think of people who go yellow?" I assumed he

was

the

about to embark on problems ok Courage and Cowardice.

"YES"

.CANARY

(VES,” he said, "my has Kone yellow

Jaundice.

canary. sorious?"

my

Disappointed

Is

sister

أن

walked out and vanished. or heard the murderer come or go.

on

KNIFE

MYSTERY

ANY times

Mhours they questioned Carlo,

but try as he would he could think of no person who might wish so ill of his wife.

AL the best he could only that his wife was a

But

sty.

NO MOTIVE

Scotland Yard men went THE Schu London bamed. Some weeks later they returned, interviewed nine people, and then there was alience.

On January 18 last year one year after the murder, a delec- Uve called on Carlo Mogano, but it was only a courtesy call. The police, he said, knew no more about the case than they did the day It opened.

The story of the murder of Penelope Phyllis Mogano has no starting point because the had no past. It looks like having no ending. Her murder has no rhyme or reason to it, no clue has been found, no motive dis covered.

Perhaps Old Time Dancing, and unexclling on restrained the surface, did, In some odd

for known such a theory seemed way, release in someone an un-

pent-up capacity victous jealousy giving way to a unlikely, there being no sign of

On the other hand, moment of madness in which a struggle. how did the knife come to be murder was

Whatever done. used? The murderer had used the cause the effect was the ine

Holland Road is a street of family houses with much coming and going of house. wives on their daily errands, suggest Children play in the front brave woman, and if she had gardens, and it is the kind had a caller who made improper to her she would quite likely have threatened of street where front win- suggestions dows have an excellent view him with the knife. A man of one another. calling

housewife would be more than noticed. Only a woman might pass

if she were unnoticed nondescript age and dress,

But the murderer was as

the Inconspicuous as

In visible Man or the unseen Postman

Chesterton's in Father Brown story.

ot

And must have arrived unexpectedly, because...

a blunt instrument as well but comprehensible action of mad-

the knife was a puzzle. No 11055. one outside the family and

few close friends would know it existed.

蘊

Was

she murdered becauŞÜ she and her husband, of Italian extraction, found a way of life Mr Mogano told the polico and showed a capacity for, lite that he had only two loves his and a gay standard of living wife and Old Time Dancing, which was an outlet others did the latter was u love his wife not have from the routine and of a prosperous His wife, he flut existence shared with him. said, Was well spoken and provincial city suburb? could speak well, sho knew That afternoon the family how to dress and looked most popular had been hurried through attractive-she their lunch as Mrs Mogano with both men and women. wanted to go to some friends shortly after 2 o'clock.

A

CLUE BURNT

Bon,

Whe

The police made thousands of inquiries using dozens of detee- tives with specially prepared questionnaire forms, All they found

was that his wife had been popular and that she had no past to conceal or secret to hido.

T 1.30 the elder

For a time the investigation round the Old Time Michael, went off, follow. centred

Dances. IL was thought just ed soon after by his father,

that the Moganos Cario Mogano, who had

tu Possible

successca on the dance floor be back at

the might

have provoked Daimler works, ten minutes jealousy strong enough to lead walk away, by 2 o'clock, to murder.

work in

son, Adrian, colic.

school just before 2 o'clock

history dyspepsia and flatulence after meals. gall stones can often be

with the associated intense pain of biliary where the pain generally radiales around the lower part of the chest or through to the back. On the other hand thou- sands of people go around with atones in their gall bladder and never have flatulence, jaundice, colic or any other symptoms throughout their lives.

"My sister's going to have an operation for it," Sam told me. It is one of the most satis- factory operations in surgery

and reassured Sam that there was nothing to worry about.

"The trouble 19 that she's terribly afraid of the knife."

"There's

Were they that much different from their neighbours that some wife imagined she saw in Mrs Moguro a power to attract and seduce which never existed?

DEEP PASSION

WAS

some other dancer po jealous of their success that it stimulated

bestial a latent madness? Was this the final ex- pression of some unrequited mute passion for another man's but wife

oblique gruesomely successful way of paying-off an enormous grudge against the husband.

or

beca

It can only have Dayton, the ugly, uncontrollable exists. like 2 force which quiescent volcano, deep down in all of us, whether we be in dozoy hamlet, busy town, or

Last Lo leave WRS the The Old Time Dances were motivated by some primitive

to run younger

by a Mr and Mrs Sidney Worrall as a part-time business and were on their way to bo- coming 1 very big success Then Mrs Mogano brought When news of the murder came

which some clean underwear, she

chule in #

the pul

on

sitting-room. She intended to have a good wash at the kitchen sink and dress in front of the fire before going out.

out the attendance dropped by sophisticated city. a half. Old Time Dancing had

If so, then reasoning and taken on a sinister atmosphere. logic can have

no part in the s.ory, and, the police and all their experts can have no start- ing point. Little wonder they have found no solution.

FALSE TRAILS

:

,

She locked the kitchen duor

But the erupe was so awful, which led to the garden, but she UE dances were held in a

the act so brutal, and the sight FOOM above tho Savoy

of it so hideous, that it must be pover had time for that wash,

Cinema, no more than

difficult for the murderer to live Between the time she locked the minutes walk from Norton kitchen door and the time she Lodge. The Worralls had be with the memory of it. A of Mra conscience may yet betray the would have started to undiess come great friends no need to be," she came face to face with her Mogano, and a series of unex- author of this meaningless story

plained pointed out. "Ask Mrs Swann." murderer. And, it sceras, that link the

incidents did seem to of murder.

murder with the As a "Ah. bu it's

Docs each full moon bring a how you're

in the time it takes to light a Worralls' dances. that mode," Sam said, clicking his

tremor of self-fear to 40110 ecissors, And very soon,

soul? Sam cigarette, but before there

Will a A few days before the murder guilt-haunted there was attempted arson at guilty mind be driven to be in a repetition of troy itself the Worrall home although The only clue there might when looked into it bolled confession for relleft have been went up in smoke down to much ado about iwo It was a burned-out cigarette smoli Ecratch marks in the On the carpet., It must have,-

pantry! been freshly 11t and then dropped, probably into a slight

How

ES

JA him. I sat was discussing the philosophical time to smoke it, she was dond. down in his chair, while he problem of Courage and fussed the white gown around People Tick. I listened to him neck. There are many thankfully. Just then a neigh- causes and types of jaundice bour came into the shop. There is toxie jaundice, for "Ah, the man I wanted 10

due sometimes example,

to see," he remarked,

"My son, virus infections or even to cat- Alan, came home from

school

Earlier that winter same. In-

ing poisonous mushrooms. A on Wednesday and told me that draught, for it was burnt from flammable material had been second type is haemolytic Jaune his friend Erie has a cousin who end, to dice, which is caused by ex- in complaining of z. cessiva breakdown of the red I left. Quickly, blood cells,

pernicious in 00

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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

IN YOU GO, CLAY CAMEL- OR WHATEVER YOU

THIS IS TIM. SENO

THE WAGON TO

ALL HERE.

CALL YOURSELF.

PINE AND MARKET.

end. A. beautifully found burning on the Worralls preserved, useless, column of car outside the Mogano house. ath. Who dropped it? Why? But then it was around 'Guy

SHOULD HAVE KNOWN,

YOU, MANDRAKE.

THANKS FOR

CATCHING

THAY MUA.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

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NARDA,YOUR JEWELSÍ

THE CLAY CAMEL'S ON

HIS WAY TO JAILS

WE'RE RID OF

HIM FORGOOD.

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