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Behind the riots and atrikes that rock Aden, the important British bunkering station at the southern end of the Red Sea, is a story of Arab

political intrigue, British business

Now read on.

say

men.

The Men Who Have Turned To Nasser

From COLIN LAWSON

HROUGH

THRO

Adon

thes Arab

quarter, pant velied women, roaming goals, and chewing camels 1 walked hole-like office

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between a cobbler's shop and an Indian tailor adver tising cotton suits "as worn by Sid Eden."*

A cow moved obligingly to jet me ruter-and the editor

of AI Buth, Aden's rauble. reusing

anti-Boish paper. bowrd

Mioutes later he led que ta the owner of the paper and The driving force behind the United National Front - the recently formed political party which vows to tick Bellalu zut

THE HATRED

Smooth, light mahogany- skinned Mohamed Salem AR Aldoo, of the set eyes, is the son of Aden's richest Arab

His right-hand man is Mustafa Hefat. big and burly with vuluble potivul af wil non-Arake.

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Continuing THE WORLD'S

STRANGEST STORIES

N the 18 years from

1643 to 1GGI between 3,000 and 4,000 per-

Sons were

Refat was employed for 10 for witchcraft in years DY the British Govern- men in Aden Protectorale

леп

He Was Resistant politicul adviser in the eastern protec torale, responsible for collecting politicul intelligence H trub

protect- Western

ferred to the

WIN

For Whe

torate in the same job

emafiozed drunkenness Bud Crankly Bred 18 months ago.

These Two-Abdon and Reful --are the real power behind the strikes

trikers

Four Thousamal paralysed ducka, buses, laxb, and a huge building project ut the nearby £45,000,000 Britisa Petroleum relivery

Said Mohanted: "We demand freedom: 1107w. Aden huss been exploited by Britain since becnunu a Colony 117 years ago

"Our people

poverty- stylehen and the only way

it is to force self- government We shall reompts"

UVEL OFFE

THE LEAD

asked how-und

Rotol's eyes gleamed

#

Mustafa He said Any action we falte will have thes Jull Nasser. Our leader He com-

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How Mr Matthew

excented Hopkins, an Ipswich

Britain.

and many of them went to lawyer. conducted

their pitiful and terrible

deaths through the instru- his dreadful mis- ment of Matthew Hopkins, an Ipswich lawyer who set himself up in business as a professional secker-out of witches.

In

profitable ion JL

Matthew Hopkins, son of the Reverend James Hop- kins, minister of Wenham. Suffolk was, in 16-14, living at Manningtree in Essex. Ju that year he seeins, abruptly to have felt the divine power upon him.

A little euriler Sir Ed- ward Coko. the first Lord England, Chief Justice of

witch had legally detined a as a person who hath con- ference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some net," 21 definition which I believed still holds good in law.

Probed with pins Gomel mands us be command all HOPKINS the Arab world, and the Wed

is making a great mudake

not realising his power

"We follow his

tead and t

hell with foreigners.“

1 said: But look round and

English

in

four

Counties

By COLIN HOWARD

crossroads

where the Hullows was erected he asked that the burial service might be read to litra. Denied this Louis strode hmly to his death re- peating the service himself from

memory

This may be considered an were executed On his way to understatement, but it roused the the ire of the Witchfinder- General, who wrote a sliff letter 10 the Houghton authorities stating that he had received ast invitation to visit the town, and he intended to come, although he had heard "The minister of

the place through ignor ance was against him.

Did Houghton, inquir

Ironically. Hopkins

ed

"afford many

for such

Trial by pins was not Hop- kinsa ouly best He also favoured trial by water, 65 warmly recommended by James the First in his standard work stickers on

.“ Suspected

cattell?'

with-supporters).

"Demonosed with hands

persons were

And and feet led crosswise--thumb

would Houghton Rive of left hand to big-toe of right him "good welcome and foot, entertainment 29

big-toe of left foot other thumb of right hand

towns had done where he had been?" If not, Huplehus

WITCH HUNTER

EXTRAORDINARY

be impore him for trial to stripped and seafed eross- legged upon a table or stool. As

king made sure of gelling his

cut out of this, for the fee was chargeable To the Lowi or

a rule it was necessary to tje village under examination, It them

in the desired posture is recorded that Aldeborough offered his with cords, Then, with long paid the man 118 for that

Indefatigably number of hangings. services to assist in pins, he proved

for the insensitive spot, discovering these cnemies Somethines he would retum to society, and profess-

ngain and to Bind the

Devil's until it mark on a number

again to one area was so numbed with of un- pain that it could feel no more. whom and there was no reaction from

Verdict-Guilty.

sex the monument Aden is to fortunates against British development and initio-information had been laid the subject under Interrogatiuas.

tive

commercial

Colony curved from bare rock Y

and

Tons

now

eit

nervous

spirited citizens.

and public-

warned Houghton solemnly he would "waive their shire al- logether and betake himself to such places where he might do and punish, not only without control, but with thanks and recompense

were then blanket

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They

in a enveloped and placed on their back in drep water. If they floated they were guilty." they sunk they were exonerated -posthumously.

Other witch-finders used dif ferent meth

methods. The supposed

witch would be ordered to recite the Lord's Prayer and Creed, a feat Manifestly beyond the powers at anyone in teague with the Devil. A single syllable mispronounced was enough.

THE

Trade fell

were

A wilch might be weighed against the church bible; if the bible won in the balance-guilty again. Or she might be gooded to weeping, when her tears would be narrowly watched, it was believed that a witch could weep from the left eye alone, and only thre tears at that. Houghton was not intimidated these tests too humane,

considered Hopkins probably £1 a visit

by the threat.

Any- Hopkins's ulti-

that MATTHEW Hopkins now co-

held unanswered and way, he always matum went ferred on himself, the title of Houghton was not included in pricking and swimming

the most reliable. Witchfinder-General, and, with any of his tours of duty.

of his staff, toured Suffolk, Hunt-

Hopkins's greatest Ingdonshire, Essex and Norfolk triumphs was the indictment in

Witchfinder - General with almost as much state as 1840 of the Reverend John

judge on circuit. He stayed Louis, Louis, then over 70 and flourished for three years. In

Essex

and Suffolk alone ho invariably at the best inn in the Rector of Framlingham, in

Suffolk, The Lowes

for the town, the authorities who

was

"proved" no fewer than 200 50 years, Witches." published in 1045 an

consulted him settling the bill accused of being possessed by witches, most of whom perished. expert of the day explains that pin

But in 1847 trade and hig entire travelling ex- two Imps. One of these imps

to fall began The Devil jeayeth upon their

penseo, His flat fee fot had Incited him while he was off, not because Hopkins was hes rumiks sometimes like

visitation was £1, with a bonus walking along the coast to stnit, running short of witches-with And on the incaner

of £1 conselence is quite blew spot

head for every witch, with all hands, a ship on the his methods that was impossible Devi axes in

mole proselytes the

but because he was running female, brought to hor

horizon. The final Nationalisis, aim is some secret part of their body

execution through his exertions. The old parson defended him- short of muge. So, with fewer to kick Britain out of

fewer engagements, he mark as his seal to know his

In bis most lucrative year he self vigorously but he was cast and

turned bul also From

Dwn by the

The part so stamped

showed a turnover of £60 in into gaol at Bury St Edmunds tur to authorship, and he doth for ever after

Hopking's success in unmask-

bonuses alone..

with nearly 200 other "witches," published a number of pamphlets This consists of 21 self-raling ingersible, and doth not bleed, ing the Manningtree witches ted He Wo8 not without his de- and kept sleepless for many on his pet subject. sheiktoms, The Nationalists though ever so much pricked or Lo A

expansion of his tractors. What public bonefae- days and nights. He was forced The last of these appeared in want to forge the whole into hipped by thrus

into it businesa. Не look on two tor is? A clergyman, named to rise and walk about when- 1877, It was a text-book entitled, pin, aw, or

Desistants, a man and a woman. Gaul, or Gaule, of Houghton, ever he dozed off, and at last "The Discovery of Witches. In This Devil's mark, therefore. The former brought more grist In Huntingdonshire, was the the poor muddled old man answer to Severd! Queries lately provided irrefutable evidence of to the mill by acting as hang- most active. Gaul publisher an pleaded guilty.

delivered To the Judges of the guilt. All that the witchinders man after a condemnation, and BRITY paraphlet denouncing Afterwards he tried to retract, Assizes for the County of Nor- had to d WON locate it. Hop- received a fee of ane shilling Hopkins and accusing him of but it was too late, and he was folk and now published by kins caused the secured person per execution. Doubtless Hop- being a common nuisance." one of the 60 out of the 200 who MATTHEW

HOPKINS, Witchfinkler-General,

for

thriving A

ark! sands handling 22,000,000 shipping yearly. Do you feel you owe nothing. to Britain?

Sand Refut: "We have lived an uppressed life for many years our clear,"

not

mily

Aden

Prolectorule.

one Southern Arabian Slate.

Relat's Anal word: "You sk me how we shall achieve our aims, I tell you to look at Egypt. Burma, and Morocco,"

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By LORD ALTRINCHAM:

very

Or sometimes he would have recourse to one particulier pin. Against All the ping in his amoury were specially made for him, but this

had been made pecially indeed. was a liny version

ge of the retractable stage- The point, ap- property sword. pearing to enter the flesh, wan actually thrust back painlessly into the upper part. His system

was foolproof.

remain

Vast

per да

WHY I REFUSE TO SIT IN THE

NOMEWHERE in India thera is a man driving a train who could sit in the House of Lords.

He could, if he chose, estab- · Ush his right to be a peer of

Lord Altrincham, 32-year-old second buron whose father (ar Sir Edward Grigg) was on Under-Secretary for War, announced last work he could not take his sout in the Lords 'under oxisting conditions." Hore, he explains his reasons.

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sometimes obscure

LORDS

eDO.

possible to becomo Hfe peers, many more Soeinliets and Trade Unionists would be ready. to

their botter In particular. judgment.

What, then, should be done? Bridly,

the it is this. First, principle should be laid down join, Uint a man does not automatic- ally become entfled to

stat tr the House of Lords when he inherits ↳ U.K, peerage. From of tain only the very low who are among the UK. peers a limited But in the present stato drive his affairs there are too fow active so rich that they do not need to number should be chosen and 10

members.

Of those peers who be employed, and the compara- Lords of Parliament, alther-be paid.

are so stupid through election by their fellow become have qualifications some are too tively few who has dormant, but his cono illustrates old to attend while others who that they are unemployable,

peers or through direct nomin- In other words the House of tion by the Crown (acting on the urgent need to reform the have their livings to earn, and

not have to their families to keep, are un Lords wil House at Lords.

be the Prime Minister's advice). service in abolished: it will die of its own Evon where peerages are not able to give unpaid

accord, Parliamen dormant the peers

themselves

the United Kingdom.

In fact he is content

an Indian,

engine. #lis

peerage

to be

in general are--so får na legis-

is concerned.

iation

This is just as well, because

it clove not follow that when a man inherits a peorage he will be fit to take part in politics.

Most peers recognise this fact and stay away, leaving the bunda

Rich or stupid

Pay them

j

reformed

Finally, it is only fair that women should be eligible,

the members of a

It goes without saying that House of Lords would have to Even *poers ATO entitled to receive the rate for the job.

This would be a disaster. A

DEERS who were not chosen healthy working Stord Cham- PER ber is vital to our Constitution. would be free to veto in The House of Commons is a national elections, and to stand WT of 000 or

place, so. potential great

but ita members, barely a hundred bem aro frantically overworked. Secondly, the principle of for AVIT. come to the House of Lords with With the best will in the world life perengos,

applies any regularity,

OUT

If

The

the

Benefit KINGDOM.”

Hopkins's end came a month or two later, Gilbert's Mikado himself could not have devised a more Atting one.

of THE WHOLE

Long before Hopkina had boasted that no witch could escape him because he had in his

als possession a list of all the witches

This in England. pricelere document had been the property of the Devil; Hopkins claimed that he had, with file shrewd legal knowledge, cheated the Devil out of it.

Tables turned

RRIVING onė day on business at a small Suffolk village he found the tables turned. Tho villagers declared that, since he discovered witches not by God's old but by the Devil's, then he must be a witch himself, Pro- fting by his own teaching, they stripped him, lashed his thumbs to his toes, swathed him in blanket and launched him on the pond.

But it would be folly to intro- duce any system of payment until the House is reformed.

The Government has a clear duty, to reform the House.

Whether there la any further delay,

ho cleared ht the opportunity will have gone name by sinking guiltlessly to

the bottom and there drown blindness, Ing honourably without a birt Through timidity,

lost on his home, or and intella we shad, have

whother, us they coopt give the proper only to the Law Exods, should a Second Chamber whose some say, he ignominiously amount tu mitution to every be extendeck

trucliflows and procedure make floated and was dragged osbors -To 12 undoubtedly the best in the to his execution is a matter of

doubt.

mem- for the House of Commons.

which

ness of the House to those who If the présent trend con- messure which they discus. Rightly or wrongly hayo, the necessary knowledge-tinum, and If the House is not and it must also be admitted people busve, a prejudios' apsinus world." and wooparseDICE..

reformed, it will soon con• that electoral donalderations hereditary Hopasps.

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