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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1956.

Nathaniel Gubbins

AM forry if I feem a blt flier than usual thif week. It if becaufe

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thore.

Fifter Fuste's fowlng fhirif for

foldierf; and

hot sun on my shining body and the rings in my nose). Mumbo- Jumbo took a dislike to me and I was in the drink again, calen by crocodiles on this occasion, if I remember rightly,

I have been re-reading 4 oki edition <f Tristrum?

The Leith police difmiffeth uf, Shandy (or should it be

But don' rend these aloud al Aller that was always born letler You might

four Triftram Phandy?) printed breakfast ducheff.

a man, usually man the duke with tonlt with a long "s" that looks bombard

crumbl. like an "."

Many yearf age when I wat A young reportes I did the fame thing I had read Triftram for BR- the art time and was to

wide [1 preffed that 1 column

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about the fa

Oh, the Spawng the durang. the lovely Turing

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now would believe that was once a beautiful girl slave in ancient Egypt.

That if yoll haleve In re- meumiation, being investigated aut the moment by rome of the newspapers, V 6! will belirte anything.

After hem thrown into the Nile because the King Egypt af grown tired of my charms, I was born again centuries later as one of the 5,000 girl friends

F Sultan of Turkey.

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Ior enelagh

thef The Sultan, pril 1 WETTI Ini The one more, this lane tweet up its a cack weighted with stones.

The next thre # was born was as block as your hat, ti you we likeck hat I was one of of Mumbu-

the many

And he all compl ait pambo, un Aturan kmg night aust date

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A. Henry the Eighth re- member getting quite a kick nat of having my wives done in hot for the reasons given in the history book but becouse they were a lot of bore), I wonder the how many men would do some thing today if they could get away with It?

In the 18th century ! was the dissolute s of noblemanı and died of drink, leaving

broken- debls and La f hearted dairymaids behind me.

In the early 19th century. became one of the more It- volting dustrialists who made a fortune grinding the faces of !h , i also made another fortone grinding the faces of the rich by some higgery-pokery on

the Stock Exchange

Before police caught up with me i shed of over-eating in hideous ibr Courthous and country in [ bad! 1stilt tanel Haines, with any di-gotten

the fulf with country ringing in my cars

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fuses

childern,

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story of how 11 toks frauds Bel hongh 1

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with gas, we may consider the shiny wrat - of two elderly womena who sat in their Lamkn

may hinking tesa

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Whereto e fu fe who want to

1 bave or starse For all the twin hak better get what they sit during their leg. are a little partive by renewclag but I like to think of the ven- activ m the Tolleson, Tongue- twitters

versaluots

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A WOMAN COMES BACK FROM TROUBLE ISLAND

Mrs. Etenes "Yes, it a dear Whatsername had her opernikal

yet**

* No, akvar But she's bad her next X-ray and they'll decide work It's gelting rather hot

for the time of year. Hartik

don't you

Yes, dear. bit after terrible winter 's quite a treat A piece to feel warm for onee more cake, dear

Thank you. deur I always kok forward { p&r dilut cake. Y+ make it with butler,

"No. dear. The beat

The TAK.

Rochel Mixing and the right temperature

im

You really must show how you do it one day, There's quite a noise going upstairs.

CYPRUS..

AND TURKS

WHERE GREEKS

VIED WITH

WITH ONE

ANOTHER TO BE HER BODYGUARD

ROM a three weeks' stay in the "terror island" of Cyprus the chief impression I have brought back is gaiety and the kindness. The grim, taut oven picture of troops and ter-

mar-

rorism has been overdone.

me

dear,

un

*,

By ANNE SHARPLEY

T

strikes suddenly, but borvor does not linger.

Cypriots

the

Timid

4

not

communal punishment you could of death in their see the fear Luces The tellet that flooded across them when they learned that no heavier prisol than the closing of some of the shops and hource for a short while Their vmotions cannot last

was illuminating was proposed under negativism. They need a

to see.

Sir John Harding, by pursuing we are?" 1 challenge the Greek Emotions Bare, a few fanatical figure as inflammatory and com-

as the Archbishop

embarrass- translating the tirade for me. tu pelling

line of domestic 12 MICT do dreadful deeds for

Their indignation ment for a number rather than He smiles "No, we know you're

not," he says. have community that exits mostly in inove then. Cypriots Greek

a smiling apathy and we in at his deportation is by no means martyrdom for the few, is

to these deeds equat the indignation to only sticking to the only line of

Iwo In the village where conclude stopped me in the streets to Britain

the British British of which

soldiers have Just last say: "We love the British. express the feeling of all Greek which he could move them if he conduct

could were there or in Greece.

approve but he is making their livesa calf falls down a

Impression We do not hate them."

Bul

on well. To whom do the villagers we do not drow

profound Cyprus. Twice during reling i have obvious conclusion from the lack

turn to get their calf out again the Bremen, expect it's

A young Greek sings the the British troops. And when been fold

by Greek Cypriots;

of massed spontaneous reaction With dear.

their heavy boots.

blood-simmering Eoka songs to the troops got tired of There

of the

patrolling nl "Do not go down there.

to first the deportation

in The What have you been duing

deserted the village on foot who offered Once during

They need the constant jog- me defiantly the is trouble,

Archbishop and secondly

He street the morning?"

translates Turkish riat I was dragged into

Day ging of Roka before they will do neonlit *Darning the vicar's socks,

afety curfews on Independence Greek house

safety and for

ride on? The Cypriot villagers. Eoka Anniversary Day. anything more than passively them and I notice with fascina- their donkeys for the troops to I think everyone stuuid

to feur That there is none.

when tlon that they deplet the British the protect

cme fantastic medieval In the village that was among help now his wife's away Good although I had nothing

from the Turks and had further- One of those Are-

It is not that they are afraid security forces seck him out.

the tyrant. The discrepancy between the first to be fined some of the a sofc-appointed "body-

A naturally timid people, know that of our troops; they men will be through the celling more

guard" of Turkish youths look except for fits of anger when fact that British justice has not Bolca's description of the British old people could not scrape to- aldier 2'S "gauleiters ermed gether the few shillings of their son."

ing after me.

one of their comrades is kill deserted the island is gradually

lobsters" and thy young share of the punishment; who cd, the

troops are far more building up their confidence to like

who stands dim helped them out? Three British paratrooper their own ter break with the terrorists. Their cioble than

minds are darkened by tales of dently of the door explaining sergeants passed cound the hat roriste.

A mossed protest against the torture and terror from the past the house has to be searchred is and paid the fine for them.

and there is Eomething very becoming apparent to the dim- Even In Euka,

British housewives shop along the terrorist curlewing would mean a risk of

stant astonishment

Athena radio, Lodra Street in Nicosia, chanc the DI

We listen to organisation, the same state of nothing more terrible than tear touching in their state of con- mest Cypriot. ambivalence exists. A member gas bombe or spraying with in-

which, despile the jamming, can ing their luck that an Boka tan- of Ecka told me, "Every time we delible dye and they knew it. leniency of Brilish treatment.

When stayed

the householders af be heard reasonably clearly by atic will pick them out--know- ot "A few minutes won't hurt kill a British soldier we do it But all too happily they

the dark tuning in slightly short of the Ing that the vast number us, dear. Then

curfew Hippocrates Street, can come with tears in our eyes. we

indoors, thankful for a

Cypriots wish them no 11. many station. buck and I show you how to

In sunny, smiling, superficial that absolved them from making narrow street

"Well, jare we the ogres and mix that cake."

Cyprus things are not quite so the protests that Eola wan try- British Servicemen have lost

their lives, were gathered for suppressors that they are saying intense as they sound. Death Ing to compel them to make,

divar,

gucous me

"A poste sandwich, dear?" "No, thanks, dear.

Do you know I can hardly see you.'

"I think the smoke must be Shall we All our cups and take them into the garden?"

peltinst

a

bit thicker.

"Certainly, dear, if you don't

think we'll catch a chill."

(World Copyright]

With tears

MONTGOMERY, TALKS

Paris

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short bristles of

the moustache arc

war

grey now. Experience ra

Lerrorist

where so

THE OLD SOLDIER,

"THE SACK"

ABOUT

By TOM POCOCK

I have no Navy, 2 just laugh.

joke of which the to Marshal Tite,

of

and peace has military future, you know, Can't Supreme Commoader is partl- Augustus John to

Moore. culary fond, gouged deep lines in fore- to any higher, can 17"

stands a metal Twelve years head and cheek. But the Norstad, 1

are

knew.

to the

10

GRO

below:

Με

ONTGOMERY has enemies-

35.00 Allled Supreme Commander quality. So I must say he is very useful that—I keep pina

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The

And yet how tragically wrong things can become, The little Greek boy dies in the arms of the British soldier who has accidentally shot him, soldier cries because this was a nice, warm, mischievous littla boy not a Greek or a Turk. just a boy.

whose. remote

syin

but

aro

Contradictory and madden- "When I took on this job." Ingly as ate the images and Wontgomery rald ta me, facts that emerge from this "I insisted that the British lovely island, it is no more than Government agree that under is to be expected. They are a

circumstances-under

thre no poople choosing between and from 10

Constance circumstances at all-would I be natural ties of blood combined put forward as possible often with the threat of blood

I would supreme commander.

now-and a supervising nation Bernard not take the job. My place is whom they know to be had On a table

glant American Shaw described Montgomery in the background away from pathetic and tensonable, keon blue eyes

and referred

air-minded model of the

compacted the hurly-burly."

attitude is often too When he is not visiting NATO

and clear. The strangely sen- Montgomery as "the finest air aircraft carrier Forrestal, algul as "that intensely

righteous. They feant because until recently hank of steel wire." sitive mouth keeps its old marshal there is."

Montgomery was conducting a Since then his taut, astringent forces in Europe and North, a people, Greek and Turk, whom What did Montgomery think campaign against ship-bomo air

Montgomery divides centurios of living together $18.00 rat-trap set.

mind has broadened, and the America,

time between Parts and have not blend of Norstad?

as his

blended, 18.00

power.

portrait Montgomery

London.

All they really want to do is The face would still look right

"Finest airman in the world," 15.00

Even now that his views are history will eco him is complete,

now staying at a to enjoy their rich land and sun- beneath a steel helmet. 25.00

he replied. Then precision modifed he could remark slyly

Versailles hotel, koups regular shine in peace, but outside pres- SO DIRECT is the face of Field came into his volee as he added: as he showed me how the flight 8.50 This

hours and office

often eats surve will not let them rest, non Mont "No, I cannot say that.

I don't deck

lifted off the model to

simply in the officers' canteen. have they the confidence to be- 25.00 Marshal the Viscount

the Alamein, Deputy fully know the Russian airmen's reveal gomery of

hangars

His relaxations are few. But love they could become Cyprus now he has a new interest. A small but. prosprous nation the finest alman in the Western

within the Caminonwealth. in it." How to Paris to interview world."

"I Am writing a because Montgomery

anice

I had not been him since the way he ta arrogant, overbearing.

But his friends will lot of generals and journalists and rude. war, I had half-expected to

relent- call him self-confident,

have written about the war, you And him a Rttle shrunken, a less, and direct.

know. Quite a lot. Some have Ettle querulous, a little watery

very rudo about mo.

is the answer to the As Gruenther's deputy he been of eye.

Now tours the NATO military com- Very rude.

Is my tum problem of ageless Cyprus. Timo is what Sir John 'Harding hopes "I am I am going to fire a last atot." But the Montgomery I tow mands, where he says: commander, the THE field-marshal knitted his

the removal of the Angers together. "My present could have been a vigorous man blunt.

I I speak the truth,

Montgomery grinned a little for 5.00 40-year-old American airman, bose and I are like that. Very of 55. His years as C.I.G.S.

wolfishly They Wo

and then

·the added: Archbishop and toll them what I think.

gradual 1.50 General Laurla Norsind.

close see him when I want and with the Western Union and take it fron me." They take it shall have quite a story to improvement 1.50 WHL the old soldier then I give him my ideas one, two, NATO commands have

180 retiro? Is the gililering career tirer. I will do the same with him charm und dienste given from him, because he is the only well one day. When I retire Istem. Time-ls' what Eoken In

NATO general who has com altait have had 50 years in the afraid of, with near He end?

then a corpe in Armond-Lieutenant

of the people dwindling and the General Norstad. That's what he

He chattod gally about Graco, oro τη that crisp, high-pitched wants-continuity,”.

Bernard shna getting short, tort voles

Kolly and Lady Docker and

For those who have seen, na sometimes aing-song, some→

THEY

TAKE IT because Montgomery joined the Royal times horali and clipped, Mout I

Montgomery in Fleet Street and his forthcoming

aimoet bill his military pro- Warwickshire Regiment in 1908. I have, the miracles that even a plainly gomery replied: "Genoral hig

held tour of Canade. danishod

So it peera that the career of few hours of time betwee quarters office here. On his And as he talked and joked, phacles have proved correct.

TAKE IT because the solder we remember best descones of horror and the healing serious, now. Aippant, 1 THEY I would be delighted, will, as on Gruenther wall, now wald

Olá Monty"..may bave of them can bring-time is the KOWLOON | Delighted, But if they so has a certificate of promotion could son why his cireje óf he has no personal axe to grind "Good

another two years to run," Answer, -100%- me I wouldn't carol Not a bit, to Admiral in the Nebraska friends ranges from the Pope: and has no further ambition.

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