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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1956.

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KOWLOOK

THE. MIDDLE EAST

"Quick, misters, look this way - nice, friendly letter-card!”

It's just a trick, says the Judo Debutante

Cummings

London Express Berrion

AS SHE THROWS

A POLICEMAN OVER

HER SHOULDER

London. police officers. one police to the Queen and Diana into the fire. "You've got blue bell-wo from the top- after five nights' practice a week eon Timpson, honorary members to see it to understand it." Na room above King'+ cadet, and one woman

for 14 months. "When you two Cross Station

"That'll do," said of the police judo club, dis- of stable.

The unbeliever promised think. Diane, that we got our while belt after three months last year's debutantes the woman, Caroline Hawke entangled themselves and

and, those Cambridge men took wrestled on the Boer, her father is Chief Gov- sat up, pulling their white to try to understand,

fifteen. it's disgusting," Watching them were three ernment Whip in the Upper jackets through their white

two House and Lord-in-Waiting belts.

murmured Caroline. detective constables,

Talk was on the level of the mystle

"Do you remember," suld Diana, "when I was thrown Afly times in three minutes?"

JUDO IS

A GENTLE

ART

"at least, at the start

et)

OR ELSE

YOU FIND

YOU'RE ONE'

· MOVE BEBIND

YOU MUST

ALWAYS BE

ONE MOVE

AHEAD ...

Lus: Onroline Hawka Hight Qiana TimesON.

BUT

YOU FEEL

HAPPY WHILE

YOU'RE DOING

IT

The belts, first of the judo honours, were newly won. And it is only three months since the giris started coming to the week- ly evening class held by the British Transport Police.

There's the sheer exuberance of Diana went on. "Two minds ure working against each You've always got to be other.

a move ahead,"

"Like cheas?“ "Well, yes. While you're doing it you're terribly happy. There's always

by

ANNA LANDAU

We adore judo," said Diana, her face flushed with exertion and excitement. Caroline nodded, too breath- the day after, of course, when less to speak.

"What throws? -goshi?" asked Caroline. "No. Tai-o- fostal," replied Diana.

IN SYRIA

Smuggling Is Big Business

By CHARLES ANDERSON ·

Damascus.

HAVE just returned from the semi-illegal business of

| smuggling caterpillars into Syria. By caterpillars I don't mean tho furry

type but

ugly, yellow mochanical monsters highly prized by Syrian farmers. Theso caterpillars, or agricultural true- tors, are supplied in Largo num- bers to Turkish farmers under the "Point Four" programme, but and enter the smuggling temptation - are rare and ex- pensive in Syria,

Each caterpillar costs appro ximately 8,800 Turkish ** (£1,000) on a long-term Te payment plan. Simple plan Except that the Turkish farmer decan't wait that long. Alber

for

dew

טמיון

using the caterpiBar for a days he passes it on by devious but highly efficient means to a "dealer on the Syrian frontler 10,000 lira or approximately £250 proft per tractor. Turkish farmer then makes the official repayments or tractor he doesn't possess any longer and pockets the £250, which is where I started any

real vestigations into this neat littlo

border racket.

HIS PROFIT

Knowing something of Arab mentality 1 was convinced that 1.0 Syrian would present his Turkish neighbour with a gift of £250 for nothing. And how right 1 was.

Legally the Syrian dealer can buy all the Turkish money he wishes on the "ree market in Aleppo, so that the 10,000 lira paid to the farmer would cost tra 3,000 Syrian pounds (E300). With tractors so highly prized in his own country his next step is emple. He resells for £500, thus natting himself a profit of at least £100 on each machine, after clearing all ex- penses.

you feel the bruises. But it's flu-jitsu," said Miss Curry.vident from the fact that,

worth -it's so exetting when you score.”

Before the class, we had sat peacefully in Diana's

home and heard worried Chelsea Caroline tell how their judo training had started. "Mum- my was worried about my coming home in the dark

Darwins Mauka

puto Detective

Tomstaðfe Olunes

do the 1

Again the uninitiated tried to understand how throwing your neighbour promotes a balancod

It seemed that everybody was personality, gives moral cour- happy except of course the Turkish Government. Just how age, as Judo-enthusiasts claim.

strongly the Turkish Govern- "You're muddling this withment objects to the whole cater

pillar muggling business Judo is "That's really savage. more graceful. It's slower. It's order to discourage this sort of "trading", the Turks have mined got rules."

large sectors of the Syro-Turkish frontier.

No

thinks Arab, however, twice about risking a few mine- fields and, without losing face, it was difficult to refuse when Abdullah M-Hazim. 1 well- known Aleppo "dealer" ("amug- gier" in plain English), suggested accompanying him on one of his trading missions.

No

For debutantes' mothers,

"No squeezing of heads. that their daughters' escorts may be of the Not-Sale- gouging of eyes," chorused the

Brigade, In-Taxis

ia girls. Judo obviously the answer.

Still sceptical, I stood by the "But that's just a joke really," gasfire in the police club-room said Carolinë. Though our arid walled for the gladiators to

came tumbling in, handspringing on to the mat and landing with resounding slops as their arms worked as shock-absorbers,

our home in Suasex is about men friends are a bit frightened enter. Six hefty policemen half a mile from the station, of us now." One day when she was get- With good cause. Diana's ting off the train at Victoria eyes shone as she said what a she saw a woman police thrill it was to send a policeman constable. She thought she over her shoulder. "IỪA not looked nice, so she asked really tough, you know.. It's her if women police learned just a trick." self-defence.""

1

Caroline And this trick very She hab. dx younger

Quite a coincidence that useful.. the policewoman in question sisters not yet old enough to was Elizabeth Curry, the learn how to counter-attack. only woman judo instructor

"Anyway, not defeat in the whole of Britain's own ends if, 100 many police force.

know judo," she said. should know it, but not whose. Boys:" Now Caroline, family motto is "Strike," comes up from Sussex every week and takes Diana with her to hurl and be hurled on the police club floor,

Miss Curry took the class through their exercises. It might have been a meeting of the League of Health and Beauty,

Then camo the contests. Bilently competitors bowed to each other frog-fashion from cach end of the mat. Then they got up, ambled cantally, across our to the middle, gripped each people other's collars and began a slow feet skating over "Girls danco, bare Teddy the mat, eyes grimly watching every movò of the ouie's legs.

Ai Caroline twisted, to throw Detective-constable Clunty, ex- Arnhem commando!!

*** anda 18-stone, master. of unarmed constat, epoher

contable anlied appreciatively. Good thing for women, this. Gives ver them a 'confident 'aggressivemem. It must be controlled. I think

Iway not converted, «Ta'b', all this very cold-blooded?"

was pitying. Diana's took "No. Judo is gentle. It means the way of gentleness."

"But you learn, scientifically, exactly how to kill people?"

but men have had the field too long.

N HA

SAFETY PATH

Our Journey from Aleppo to Kilts-fow miles across the frontier-in a ten-year-old jeep. jon a cold, wet January day, was uneventual. Abdulloh was well- known at the frontler posts, and we passed through with diploma- expediency clattering and banging over the rocky road to the picturesque but dirty lowns of Kils.

tic

After leaving me at the one hotel, Abdallah disappeared with the Jeep. It was seven that evening before he returned, with the news that he had bought three caterpillars, and we should be leaving for Azaz (home again” in Syria) in two hours.

As we sat over our meal of lahm għanam and laban (fried mmation and yoghurt), I ven- tured an inquiry allout, the mines. Abdullah Wig ob. viously shocked at, my distrust of his operationat ablity.

Mines alt fixed." This ES- surance was followed by the explanation that he had or- ganised a tapod safety path We had through the minefields. only to follow the tape with our three caterpillare lurching along behind us and the operation would be over.

RENDEZVOUS

Abdullah also told me that the Turkish patrol for that night would be some miles to the eastward. I sincerely hoped ho knew, for Turkisis patrola invariably shoot on right and nic questions afterwards.

As we left the little reatur ant, we found the night clear with a bitterly cold and starry, wirid blowing down from the! Caucania. We clambered into the jeep and clanged

·und clanked along 'the, stony, road: to our rendezvous,

Outside at dilapidated

faren house we found the three cater pillars, each attached to a pair of buffaloes,, " 2"Buffalo,

bo mados no noise, explained

Abdullah. Ana, do we act off, Abdullah giving instructions to a team of six helpers" who had, suddenly appeared, indi

himself pleking up the white thread which had been

earlier that evening, Me

laid

|

the revolving, caterpillar

On the soft, ploughed earth

made no noise, and, our

Though Caroline is read. ing for the Bar, and Diana Is busy with a secretarial Course and Russian lessons, well, tre do know how to their week revolves round kill," replied Caroline. "But 11 the few hours when rather unofficial. I don't think Will this thing that every girl wens meant to know that yet," should know now become part sweaters and skirts are ex« <l«

Sarap of a debutante's basic training? changed for the loose white The gentle art for the gentle

Box was anther, explained in debutantes? clothes of the gazne,

Diana" drove us to never stick at it,”! 'mid Caroline mowBakas, de rose, picking up and Diang with Game? "It's a religion, le Clay theƐ why: ned, wwert où tossing ride Diana, firmly staringy.Police consimil

DDRYDY, Indved stoy

the frontier, Alnö